Finally... Pointe Class!!!!!!

  Pointe class finally!!!! :D Teacher Agnes told us to bring our pointes next Saturday. So excited! Hello again, dead toenails, blisters, and bleeding feet...

  During the summer, the last LCB show that I performed in, we used masking tape to protect our feet. I wonder what Teacher Agnes will introduce to us...

My Ballet Bag

The Stuff:

1. Ballet slippers - Duh

2. Hairpin box - What a ballerina needs

3. Extra clothes and towel - my leotard's soaking wet after class.

4. Container for glasses - that phobia that your glasses might crushed...

5. Dance journal - I write down the corrections that I get from class.

6. Bug spray - Our studio's open air.

7. Pointes - Justin case that much awaited pointe class comes.

8. Tape - for toes during pointes.

9. Sewing kit - Just in case my I have some sort of wardrobe malfunction :P

10. Book - to read while waiting for Mom or Dad to pick me up

Walking To Ballet Class

 Quirino St.,Davao City. I walked underneath that building
to the left of the taxi. 

  I walked from Quirino Doctors Clinic to Locsin's! I guess that's less than a kilometer but its the first time I've ever walked in the street by myself!!! Yeah, LOL :P I love that part of town. Some buildings, like Locsin's, have been there since my grandma was a teenager. Others are really new and only opened this year. It's a busy but calm part of town, If you know what I mean. It's an urban jungle full of people, cars, and noise. But it's still got that old feel to it...
Mom needed to drop by the doctor's for my brother's check up and she asked me if I could  walk. I don't usually get chances like that. I'm not even allowed to go laag or outing with friends without my parents.  I hesitated at first but then I remember one of my friends walking from school to the mall to meet up with her mom. If this wasn't going to be my first time, then when? I clutched my ballet bag for more confidence and walked passed the mob of people waiting to cross the street. It felt liberating. I felt so at home. Davao is my home. What a milestone!
  When I got to Locsin's, I noticed that the studio on the first floor was fixed unusually, with table cloths and a barre draped with leaves in the middle of the stage. I entered through the back and saw one of my classmates. He told me that there was no class because it was Teacher Agnes' Birthday!!!

  Happy Birthday Teacher Agnes!!! :D

  LOL, hehe... Sigh, what a day! :D

Random Week

DEEEEEEEP Exhale... I've been feeling very un-inspired and un-energized and tired... in short kapoy, Bisaya for tired :P Teacher Agnes hasn't been teaching though. She went to Manila to attend the funeral of Noordin Jumbalon, Ballet Philippines' Principal dancer.. I think :(
  It's funny how close the people are in this country's Ballet world. I mean, everyone knows everyone, more or less...
 Dance club was rather unproductive this week T_T We only had 4 students... Were think of not having formally taught classes... You know poeple will meet up and bring any dance they want with them be it Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Tap... Like in Step Up 3. We might get our old members back... But some students want me to continue teaching so I'm thinking that anyone, OK, anyone, can teach what ever new dance move they learned... Still thinking about it... :D