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07/10/2005: "Kimee's Moment:)"

Aloha everyone,

Okay...so I'm having a major "moment" right now. As most of you know, I've just moved back down to L.A. from San Francisco...it's been great! I've been able to catch up with some old friends and I looove my new place. The week has been filled with trips to Target, Ikea, and a garage sale this morning (I didn't buy any furniture, but I got a good deal on a vintage clutch purse:)) Anyhoo, I've also been super busy unpacking boxes. I was on a roll sorting things out and getting rid of stuff, until I came upon my old pink suitcase (of course) and it was like a treasure chest!! I found the album that you all made for us at the end of our Mall Tour. Flipping through the pages of that beautiful album seriously brought tears to my eyes. I mean, you guys are truly wonderful and have given us so much love and support since the beginning. It just made me realize how lucky the 5 of us are to not only have this amazing opportunity to work on this incredible show, but also that we are so blessed to have fans like all of you. It really is awesome.

Some other things I found in the Vintage Pink Suitcase was an old paper that I wrote my Senior year in High School. We were asked to write about our "dream job." Wanna guess what I wrote about? No, it wasn't about being in HI-5. It was about performing though. I wrote about how much I wanted to be in a professional production of "Miss Saigon." I was 16 when I wrote it and it was a couple of months before auditions were coming back to Hawaii. Reading it again was so cool and a little weird at the same time. It just made me think that back then, being in this "business" was just a fantasy to a sixteen-year old girl in Kaneohe, HI. I had been involved in musicals since I was 9, speech festivals and plays since I was 6... I've always loved dancing, singing, and just being on stage and in front of an audience. I wrote the paper for a school assignment, but I meant every word of it. I just wrote about how much I loved the show and how much I would love to do it some day. Who would have thought that just 8 months later I would actually get the call....and the rest is history I guess. I also found an old dance video of mine, it was the last one that I did before I left to go on tour with "Miss Saigon." It was really neat to watch that again too. It's fun just to think about how I'm still doing what I love to do 8 years later. A lot of my friends that I used to dance with have been very successful as well.

Basically what I'm trying to say is, that dreams do come true. I did work for it though, just like Karla, Curtis, Shaun and Jenn did. We were all just kids with a dream and a passion....and here we are. We are very blessed to be doing what we are doing. Especially because it is inspiring to kids. All 5 of us were those kids who looked up to people on TV or on Stage and thought..."Wow, that would be sooo cool to do that!!" You can! You can do whatever your heart desires. If you want to be an actor, a singer, a dancer, a veterinarian, an astronaut, a teacher...or whatever it is!! You can do it. An old principal of mine back at Kapunahala Elementary School used to always say to us, "Can Do!!" And for sure that has stuck with me throughout the years. You can do whatever it is you want to do. Even if you're from a small town on a little island thousands of miles from the bright lights on Broadway, dreams do come true. And none of them are too big to become reality. Just keep dreaming, working, smiling and having fun, and everything will be there...it's in you. I believe in you. We all believe in all of you.

Love love to you all....
Kimee
A dreamer (whose dreams came true)