I am in the good ballet studio now.

Things have been totally crazy lately. 

I am dancing in a new studio since I moved (because I started studying at law school) and I LOVE it. The teachers are a lot more strict and the other students are really good which is an amazing motivation for me.
There is this one girl who graduated from the HUGE ballet school in Berlin. She is amazing and sometimes teaching, sometimes joining us in class.

We've been working on a few moves I have never done before. It feels like I have to think way too much so I mess up most times but I think that's ok.

Unfortunately I can't dance as much as I initially wanted to because of law school. My new schedule looks like this: Tuesday: ballet grown ups advanced, Friday ballet for intermediate and advanced students and same on saturday. It's always 2 hours without a break which is super exhausting but I love it :)

sometimes I can take ballet class on monday (students, intermediate and advanced) on monday as well but usually I have to be at uni on monday afternoons.

AND: besides that I have been stretching quite a lot I'd say. I still can't do the straddle all the way but it definitely got better

and my "lying-on-the-back-in-a-split" kind of stretch is beginning to be really comfortable :)

same for the froggy stretch

And I love that my "dorm-neighbor" started stretching with me. It's so much more fun stretching together than alone.

It's really entertaining to stretch alone and watch rhythmic gymnastics video as motivation (because they are SO flexible) for me as well though. 

It's weird how I can relax and stop over thinking things when I'm stretching and of course when I'm dancing. 

This was my little update 

xx

Maggie

Summer intensive insecurity.

Am I good enough? Will I be the worst in class, is everybody else going to be a lot better, picking the combinations up a lot faster than me? Am I going to be able to do all the exercises properly?

Those questions have been in my head 24/7 lately.

Tomorrow (actually "tomorrow" is in an hour because it's already 11pm where I live) is finally the day I'm leaving for America - for my summer intensive. And with all the delight and excitement comes the insecurity.
I am really trying not to let the thoughts get me down because your mind has to be as strong as your body to be a ballerina right?

This is the place where I'm going to dance in America

I am more than excited about the fact that I'm going to be pointing those toes where the ballerinas of Richmond ballet usually do and to experience the long hours of training every day.

It is both exciting and terrifying not to know anyone there.
I really hope I'm going to make some friends for life. Friends with the same interests (ballet, ballet and ballet obviously).

Also I'm going to bring my good camera to take some nice pictures and I'm actually already looking forward to looking at those pictures in 10 years and thinking back at my first time in America.

Ballerina Shira Lanyi in one of the studios I'm going to be dancing in 

XX