Saturday morning I stretched for about an hour... then I had some errands in town then I had dinner with Josephine and my cousin Cecilie from Denmark the same evening at the Wittenbergs. After dinner I worked out, stretched and did ballet exercises for an hour.
When I woke that morning... for some reason before 7.. I worked out for about half an hour before breakfast.. then we had church all morning, and after church I danced ballet for 2 hours straight - just practicing bar exercises, chaneturns and pirouettes. Home from the Wittenbergs now, Sunday night.. first thing I did was to run on the treadmill for 15 min non stop.
Now that I think about it.. it has been kind of extreme, and my body is tired.. but in a fantastic and healthy way. I want to be ready for dance this Tuesday. We begin the semester with a ballet class, a jazz class and a tap class right after one another!
I got the prettiest tap shoes.. and I've already tried them out at my private studio at Hempstead corps ;) .. It was fun.. didn't get far, because I had no idea how to start a sequence with a flow of rhytm... but they felt good, and I can't wait to start. It is the coolest thing to be good at! After ballet... ;) Respect for proper ballet girls, it is unbelievably hard and take a heck of muscles!!..
I just got myself some new ballet shoes, and now all I've wanted these past couple of days has been to wear them and be better at the ballet bar.
I had a talk with my ballet teacher who told me that I really look like a beautiful and good dancer because of my body and beautiful lines in dancing.. but then sometimes I just mess up the most minor detail you could pick on, and he thinks I still have a lot to learn!.. Which I DO - heaven knows. But I can't wait to be much better this semester, because I am ready to fight to learn it beautifully.. not just fight it;) .. which I have done for numerous classes this first semester.
My body is like.. straight muscle. Well, not completely.. but I'm getting there. Funny I weighed myself two days in a row, and there was a difference of 4 pounds one day to the other.. of lost weight... which could be about the food I have had too.. but I weighed myself by the end of the day both days.
I feel like an athlete, which is finally settling.. because that's literally what you need to be to be a well prepared, ready, energetic, welcoming, joyful and fast-learning and talented musical theatre student ;)
When my cousin saw me onstage of the showcase performance, she noticed my muscles.. but also how much weight I'd lost being so focused on dietary and working out, so when I got offstage she told me..: "Jasmin, you are very talented... but please eat a cupcake!".
And with that anecdote I will end this short blog post to focus on my singing for a bit now ;)
I need to work on my new repertoire folder for the 2nd semester - got a brand new list of songs, I just got form the library.
New songs coming up are:
'I have confidence' - The Sound of Music
'Try it on my own' - Whitney Houston
'All for Laura' - The woman in white
'Is it really me' - 110 in the shade
......you can look them up.. or wait till I write about learning and performing them in class. Very much excitement from this side :)
Much love. :*
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