Back in the studio.....

Spending long days back in the studio

is hard work.....

but not quite so hard as full time ballerina-ing.

the focus no longer being on me and what i can do,

but instead re-thinking

 how do you do a step?

how do you teach it?

how do you inspire?

what is important as a teacher?

what kind of teacher do i want to be?

I feel all the old aches and pains come creeping back in,

reminding me why i choose to stop putting so much pressure on my body.

But i still love dancing.

in fact i think i've re-discovered it.

Choosing in my spare time to go to one of the

open classes in London 

just to move and enjoy myself,

no stresses, no worries.

and no regrets.

we also have a lot of different personalties on the course

but some how we all seem to mesh pretty well together.

I think we each have respect for each others 

backgrounds and are all going through the

same transitional phase 

and its great to have people around you

who can empathise.

Re-post

So I wrote a nice long post last night and my phone died just as I was about to hit the send button....

The overview of it was last weekend was pretty awesome, this week has been an absolute NIGHTMARE, but hey ho it's nearly over and I can put it all behind me and its going to make a good story one day.

I've just discovered the blogger app so I might blog a bit more frequently on my iPhone on my daily 1.5 hour commute across London each day.

In the mean time Instagramme is probably the best way to catch me. (Rgiboin)

Here are a few snaps from husbands visit at the weekend. We went to Cambridge and husband punted me along the river which was highly entertaining.... We found a nice spot on the river to have our lunch and watching others having a try at punting too.... It's pretty funny.

 We also got stuck in Cambridge which is a whole other story.....

Touristing in London

These are some delayed pictures of when Husband came to 

visit a couple of weeks ago.

I just cant get my husband away from boats.

The first thing he wanted to do is head to the Greenwich Martime Museum.

Greenwich is a lovely little part of London south of the river.

The museum itself wasnt all that great,

even Husband was disappointed.

But we did pay extra and go their current Visions of the Universe

exhibition which was worth it.

It's all images that have been taken of space and the planets and galaxies

and what not. 

Really beautiful stuff.

Funnily enough there was an exact replica

of the lighthouse in Scotland that we mini-mooned at!!!

We also went to the Royal Observatory where Husband some some really 

important clocks that were something to do with navigation

(you can tell i learned a lot!)

he was quite excited to see them....

they were...

very clockish

The Royal Observatory also has the official middle of the world.

The Meridian line.

The next day we went to the Churchill War Rooms

which was an excellent museum.

and here is my favourite exhibit in it,

Churchhills velvet onesy!!!

He had a bunch of them made so that he 

could just slip it on if there was an airraid in the middle of the night.

As hard as i find London to live in

it is an excellent tourist destination.....

if only as a Londoner i had more time!

Commuting....

London life is busy.

I just feel like i dont stop.....ever.

on friday night i came home and was fast asleep by 8.30.

commuting is a killer,

it just seems to take so long to get anywhere in london.

i live in London and it takes me longer to get my

course each day than some of the girls

who live much much further away!!!

I miss husband.

little things like how nice it would

be at the end of the day just to sit on the sofa next to him.

or how i just want to tell him about everything all the time.

The course is going pretty well,

and i've made a few new friends which is always goood,

also been spending time with old ones too.

At some point i'll get round to blogging about

what i've actually been up to...

but for now i'm going to catch me some

zzzzz's

A lovely little movie....

I went to see this lovely french movie this week,

its one of the most enjoyable movies i've seen in a while.

I truly felt like i was watching an Audrey Hepburn movie from the 50's.

Recommended!!!

It's been tough going from being a boatwife

to full time school....

these early morning starts are not fun!

and London is sooooo BIG!

Husband comes to visit this weekend...

cant wait!

The London Stage....

I was pretty excited when coming to London

that i'm going to get a chance to see some amazing ballets here.

I enthusiastically booked a ticket to

see the Royal Ballets production of Mayerling

with Alina Cojocaru dancing.

A dancer who i have watched on youtube a lot

but never actually seen live.

Turns out that they (alina and her partner johan) announced a couple of days

before the performance that they were leaving the company.

I was so excited to be there for that special evening.

even though my seat was the cheapest in the theatre which meant i could only 

actually see half the performance because of the restricted viewing.

(it made it a bit tricky to follow the plot!)

this article describes their last performance pretty well

i've never seen so many flowers on a stage in my life!!!

Back to school....

I'm on the fourth day of my course.

I'm attending the 

Royal Academy of Dance Professional Teaching Diploma course.

There's lots of lovely people on the course and

lots of information to take in.

Its good to have fellow students who you can talk to,

i cant tell you how many times we've said to each other

at certain times,

'Oh my Goodness i'm glad that you feel that way too'

(mainly when we are lost and dont have a clue whats going on)

Its quite a broad variety of people too,

all from different backgrounds with different strengths and weaknesses.

For me i think its going to be hard to transition from 

think about how i would do a step as a dancer

to changing my thoughts to how would i teach that step as a teacher.

its a long day and busy schedule

and London is so big

i spend half my time commuting.....

Luckily some of my favouritest people live in London too

(two of my bridesmaids)

i've been trying to squeeze in some social time with them too.

Turns out before i came to London 

my husband emailed my friends and ask them to look

after me as he is worried about me being here without him.

What a sweetie....

good to know that he is taking care of me from a distance

He's my Hercules.