Fourth workshop and a celebration

I was again late for 10 minutes for my third workshop, because I was busy chatting with my co-worker about the business problems our firm is facing. We as an analyst class at our company (investor relations advisory business within a data analytics firm) are having lunch with the management team of our department tomorrow, and we charted many bullet points on things to improve within the organization from an analyst’s perspective. I prepared a big speech tomorrow with 6 gigantic bullet points, but I was kind of uneasy how it is gonna be received by the management team, because they are all constructive criticisms. Our group is experiencing some pretty high turnovers and is facing some growing pains, which made our working experience somewhat unpleasant, but I do hope to be a part of the effort to solve these problems and make our workplace better. Anyhow, so therefore I was late for my ballet class, and the pianist - a slim retired man dressed in business casual - gave me his usual stare while I sneaked into the classroom… making me feel a little guilty and hope I wont be late next time.

Today, we reviewed many of the moves from last class, but mostly talked more about posture, weight placement, plié, tendu a la second, releve in second and port de bras.

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Third workshop and a milestone birthday

I turned 25 yesterday! It felt amazing and surreal, to really be at an age when people look back to nostalgically, when you feel that anything can happen and the future has so many possibilities. I was on my dating apps in the last few minutes of being 24 years old, waiting for the number to turn 25. Idk why I was on dating apps at that time, probably because it is one of the only apps that has your age written on the profile! And it is a surreal feeling seeing your age being officially presented as 25 on a dating app. I now officially joined the more mature 20 somethings!! It’s an amazing feeling.

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Restarting my absolute beginner ballet workshop...

Today is my first day at my ballet workshop at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City. This is my third time taking this class, but I am still doing the center barre (the most basic one), just to give myself a stronger foundation. I took this workshop for the first time in the summer and fall, but I I skipped a lot of classes during the time because of work/events, and I am still uncomfortable with a lot of the moves at the center barre.

Anyways, third time is the charm…hopefully I can come to every single class this time and actually learn the positions accurately! With this goal in mind, I decide to take some notes on what I learned during class and revise at home… so here it is:

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