Dancing!

Today I am medieval dancing with yr 2 of a local infant school. I am very excited.

The dance is in a circle and is lovely and simple. I hope we have a marvellous time!

Life is tricky

How would one go about requesting the noisy neighbour be quiet? With out a fight? Ideally? 
I used to quite like my neighbour before her other half scarpered and left her with two small children. One who is a polite friendly little thing and the other who is just a bit dim, and nosy. 
Now she has a new fella( the neighbour not the eldest daughter) and he is a nasty looking piece of work. I really don't understand people who think it is fine to get drunken front of their children in the day time. Or in the evening until half ten at night. Because my kids might be in bed trying to sleep but hers are in the garden screeching at each other.
I of course may be wring about him being horrid. But he looks fairly nasty. :( one again I am feeling a bit like a meany for feeling this way.
The second tricky thing is that some people I love dearly are having a rough ride currently. I really home they manage to get things stable. They work well together. But life does throw lemons and the job to do is to make lemonade.

18

Hours Of lecture time.
This is a scary thing.
I will need encouragement and time and motivation and I don't know if I own any of these things!
I will be knuckling down and studying hard honest!
This evening I think it will be time to re read the essay and see if I can get that finished.
Theni shall maybe write some lesson plans for Monday and Tuesday as I already have a plan for the Wednesday adult class together!
Then I need to put together a tendu exercise for a grade 6 level class - but I think I might have already got that organised. :)

Onwards and away for the internets!

How lucky I am

I dont want to sound like a arrogant stuck up type of person but I have realised just how fortunate I am.

I have a job I adore, I share my home with 4 mostly fabulous children, and one pretty awesome young man. I can pay my bills. I know what's am talking about when it comes to studying and teaching ballet. I can go to tech feeling really low and fed up and come away feeling excited and seriously positive.

I can see some of my pupils who have such joy and excitement about their dancing, they might not be the most awesome but they have love for it and that makes me unexpectedly happy! Then we have some who are good. And could be seriously good, but they don't have any arrogance and they don't really know just how good they are. They come because they love it!

And today a new child came whose mum sat in, and after signed her daughter up for the rest of the term, bought a ballet bag, and ordered uniform, and told me she loved my style of teaching and that the group looked so happy.

So yeah - sorry interest - I am smug today. It's not big or clever and I promise to not be smug tomorrow.

Planning plans!

Writing lesson plans is being an experience, I see the logic and theory behind why I ought to write lesson plans but it does infuriate me a bit.

Planning seems to take up a whole wedge of my time that technically I don't get paid for. Unless I increase my class fees which is never the ideal plan.

I wrote a lesson plan on Friday for my adult ballet class. 45 minutes of class time and 15 exercises. I had an idea of what I wanted to achieve from it but I don't think I actually did in reality.

But the class had to work hard and didn't have a chance to stop and gossip!!! So in that respect it was all good!

Too short

Half term is drawing to a close and  I am a little sad. I have enjoyed not going to work and teaching most days. It sounds horrid really as I love teaching but I have had fun this week and done a whole bunch of sorting stuff out that needed to be done.

Just one (massive) pile of paper work and g"s chest of drawers top and my bedroom will resemble somewhere where a grown up sleeps instead of a big mess of stuff. Or and the sock box needs a new home. And the big bag of stuff for the school charity pick up which I have sat on a chair. But apart from that it's done!

I shopped this week and planned breakfast lunch and dinner for the entire week.

Breakfast included amongst other options pain au chocolate, bagels, porridge

Lunches the choices have home made minestrone soup, quesadilla, and ham and leek pasties.

Dinners we have hunters chicken, lamb tagine and gammon.

I have enjoyed the cooking, not so much the shopping which was more than I normally spend but I don't normally need to buy extra ingredients as it tends to be the same boring meals again and again. I have my cheap staple meals and they get churned out a lot!

I have also included in my planner some sweet and savoury treats and sadly not included wine or late night snacks! I hope it's will help in a two fold manner - my waist will slim and my purse will get fatter!

I have also up cycled this week, some left over blue velvet fabric and a scrap of lining fabric have become very sumptuous bedroom curtains, my amazing fabric that I will never use has become a rug, I am currently creating a matching sort of valance for my bed to hide the junk under it. I need the junk! Therefore I hide the junk.

And the only thing left to do will be sorting the dancing paperwork and emailing it to my lovely accountant friend who has offered to help and I am done! Phew!

On to see what Friday brings us. Currently they are playing nicely, I give it 4 minutes till I am splitting up a fight!