Monique Coleman Blogs About Dancing with the Stars Tour

As Monique Coleman prepares to shoot High School Musical 3, she's perfecting her moves on the Dancing with the Stars national tour.

Below, she blogs about the experience with People magazine:

Not only am I reunited with my old favorite dances, but I'm back with Louis van Amstel (pictured), my season three partner. He has been a dream to dance with again, especially without the pressure of trying to learn dances in less than a week's time and then go out and compete. The show was stressful, but the tour is relaxed and fun.

This time around, the dancing is for pure pleasure and audience enjoyment â€" and the audiences have been phenomenal!

It's been fun to meet new people, reconnect with the dancers, and have some time to myself on the road. I was on tour with High School Musical last year and that was fun â€" but a lot more hectic. For starters, I shared a bus with Ashley Tisdale. This time, I've got my own tour bus and so after each show I come back and just chill. It's heavenly!

My friend Autumn has been traveling with me and we're having a ball. The past couple of nights we've been catching up on our [TV] viewing. I was traveling a lot last year for HSM so I missed some of my favorite TV shows. I'm catching up with season three of Grey's Anatomy and bawling my eyes out.

I'm friends with Sabrina Bryan and we're having a great time spending time together and catching up. The other night after the Cleveland show we had a little party in her bus. We played Nintendo Wii and hung out and had a blast. I got to meet Wayne Newton and he is such a great guy.

What a legend! That was an honor for sure.