Friends and an embarrassing new Obsession

On Monday, ballet class was great. I felt hardly any soreness, felt like the best dancer and worked hard on my arms and head.
Yesterday however, everything hurt. In adagio I managed the arabesque piqué on demi-pointe. But my feet hurt a lot. Franca said that I didn't have bad feet when I told her about the workshop teachers comment about my feet. Then she watched closely whether I pointed well and said it must have been the greater speed.

Today Charlene and Marina came. We made chocolates. What makes me happy: Marina will come with me to ballet next Friday. Unfortunately Maurice will teach, but oh well.
I felt farther away from Charlene than ever. She gave me a necklace with a leaf pendant. Although we are so similar in parts I feel less comfortable with her than with Marina. That makes me sad. Cooking was stressful for me. I didn't want to make raspberry chocolates, but I gave in.

Now I will admit it: I have been watching Gossip Girl for three weeks. I have already seen all the episodes. At the moment I am rewatching them because I didn't consciously follow the relation between Blair and Chuck in the beginning. Something about Chuck appeals to me incredibly. He is "evil", rich, sexy, ridiculous in a way, and to be pitied. I can't describe it, but he captivates me similarly to Brian from QaF. Well, if you think about it, he resembles him a lot.

I started it when I had finished tidying up my room at last. All I wanted to do was lie around and watch something. But all the other series I knew of didn't really hold interest for me, except How I met your Mother, and with that I stumbled upon GG. In a way I had always been curious to watch it some time. And when I see beautiful and rich people I feel more beautiful and rich, too. So I told myself: You are curious, plus it could help you concentrate on beauty and abundance.

 (This entry was translated from German. I tried to stay as close to the original as possible, so it might sound a little strange.)

Ballet workshop weekend

I am back from the ballet workshop weekend! It was great. I got a "shot in the arm", a great motivation.
The teacher said I was more secure and stable, and that Nicole and I were quite advanced for our two years of ballet.
To do: He said I could have beautiful feet! If I stretched my instep and worked through my foot more. And I should work on arms and head/gaze, all the things that give dance expression and quality.
That was also what I spotted immediately when we were watching a taped performance. The dancer who had been at a great academy had a captivating expression in the simplest of movements, and that was only partly due to her great body/line. Bille said it was the arms that were always slightly lagging behind, like an echo.

Nicole said I was good. That I was doing everything very cleanly and correctly.
Kathy said I had nice feet. Nicole, too. And Kathy's feet are not more flexible than mine. I couldn't tell whether they were worse or not because her slippers were too big. It pleased me very much. My feet may not be great, but at all events they are better than I always believe. If I find them more beautiful now, and use them better, they will only get nicer! My extensions were not bad either, compared to Kathy and Nicole's.

We were a group of dancers. We talked about ballet. We watched ballet. The teacher got recognised about town, and all of us with our buns got recognised as dancers. That was wonderful! It fulfilled my wish of telling everybody that I love and dance ballet.

The classes were quite good. In part too fast, in part agonisingly slow. In any case interesting, different and challenging. Having good dancers before, behind and next to me was inspiring, but also intimidating.

Oh, by the way, I found the Bloch Pro Arch at G. They are very comfy and flattering. What a coincidence that the only pair they had fit me! That was the universe, I am sure. Somehow I had been expecting to find those slippers there.

And just now Kathy sent me such a nice email:

Hi Alienor,

I hope you made it to the train station on time! I kept thinking of you because of the traffic jam on the highway and hoping you made it!

Yesterday I immediately took myself to the bathtub, did the washing and let hubby make dinner. :)I went early to bed and slept like a log. Today I'm feeling my legs and my achilles tendons quite a bit, but it's going to be ok. Today I'm going to do absolutely nothing, but tomorrow I will take the last class from my card with a guest teacher from New York. I'm so curious/excited, I'm telling you! And until then I'll certainly feel better.

Tanja (C. From the Forums) told me to say hi. She wrote me the following: "Say hi to Alienor from me. I hardly 'know' her, but she always comes across as very nice on the forums." :)

Well, that's done. :)

I also wanted to tell you how happy your compliment made me at our parting. It's nice that you feel comfortable in my presence. That makes me happy! But people as nice as you make it easy to be kind to them. Because you are a great person. With great feet. See, even the teacher said that. :)
I would be very happy if you came to another such workshop sometimes. If it ever takes place in M you can stay with us!

Love, and hope to talk soon - it was nice with you!

Kathy

(This entry was translated from German. I tried to stay as close to the original as possible, so it might sound a little strange.)