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CATHY GODEGHESI |
Wingers, wingers, if you knew how much I have to tell you… First let me apologize once again for my complete lack of posts for the past months. Life has been quite crazy lately and I’m about to explain it all. (Oh, and I am working on the 8 things. next post, probably!)
Well, to begin with, school. It’s almost over - forever! In less than two months it’s over! I’m happy but scared at the same time. That also means (besides the fact that I become a grown person in a matter of days - I turn 18 pretty soon!) that preparations for University are taking up a lot of time (besides ballet, of course). Here the system works differently to enter universities. The institutions apply an exam by the end of the year with EVERYTHING we have seen since our first year of high school. All the subjects, from physics to history (here we can’t really choose either what subjects we take in high school.). So, can you imagine the amount of stuff I have to see? I’m trying out for law in a public university (not to become a lawyer, but to become a diplomat), my first option, and International Relations as second.
Now, ballet: My RAD (royal academy of dance) exam is in two weeks, it’s a pre-professional level so it’s basically a lot of technique. I’m already starting to feel a little bit nervous, we’ve been getting prepared since january!
However, I had quite an issue a little over a month ago: I sprained my ankle badly, had to stop dancing for over 20 days (that also explains my lack of posts) and only this week I started jumping again (because once my foot healed a little bit I did some adagios, etc). But gladly I’m picking up stuff quickly, rehearsing hours and hours, even at home to hopefully pass on the exam. Thus that means ballet has been pretty tiring lately also.
Besides that, we’re working on new choreographies, that are totally new to me in the sense that they’re very modern pieces. We’re doing Help, by Beatles, Libertango by Piazolla and just today I started working on a modern solo also with japanese music (we’re doing countries, so beatles would be england, piazolla argentina, etc..). Ballet routine has been absolutely crazy, as we need time to rehearse and finish the choreographies plus exam!
Carol takes a break from the rehearsals and shows her happiness with a chocolate! Luckily, pas de deux teacher didn’t catch her eating it…
Hmm now there is something that I was preparing to tell in this post, however as what I had planned didn’t happen, I will just introduce the subject. I was really confused as for example where I’d be taking dance classes and such, I was a bit lost because São Paulo is not the best city for dancers so I was saving some money to try to study ballet somewhere abroad for a few months.
To my surprise, when I least expected, this HUGE dance school opened a few blocks from my house. It’s something quite big and brought a totally new perspective to me. International teachers, strong pre professional programs.. the building is BEAUTIFUL… so i’m very very excited. Anyway, it turns out that I was going to take some classes to see how it feels last week but due to unexpected stuff and messy schedule I couldn’t. But once I can make it, I’ll be sure to tell you guys everything!
And by the way, a warm welcome to all the new wingers! 
On that, I leave, and promise to be back here soon!
Bye!
Cathy
