This weekend was pretty fun! I attended a brunch with a Slavic lit professor from my school at my alumni club, who later brought us to watch the met opera (Queen of Spades!) It was my first time seeing an opera, and I was worried that I was gonna fall asleep in the middle of the performance, because it is 3.5 hours long! The opera was quite dramatic, with lots of strong emotions that were powerfully demonstrated through singing. I was sitting at the edge of the seat the whole time!

During brunch at my alumni club, I met a few amiable alumni who were in town to attend their grandkids’ birthday party. A woman was talking about how when she was a young professional in the 1970s, she discovered that her boss, a very proper, gentleman looking lawyer, was taking ballet classes after work! So she started taking ballet with him. It was a different era, so when other people asked them, what do you do for a living? They had to say they worked office jobs, sitting around all day and typing out words. They had to disguise that they were lawyers, because at that time, people could not imagine lawyers dancing ballet. Such a different time back then! Now the CEO of Goldman Sachs doubles as a DJ who regularly performs at the hottest night clubs in New York!

Ok, now back to class! Today was a really demanding but good class, we perfected several movements: