Ballet
I'm sure there are many advantages to being the youngest child (I am an eldest child myself) but sometimes I think it is a bit rough on Bethany that I work four days a week and have two other children to spend time with. Jossie did ballet in the year before she went to school and had a concert at the Civic Theatre. She had such a beautiful tutu and Mama and Bop came down to see her. Bethany loves dancing and often squeezes her feet into some Jiffies, ignoring the marks they leave on her feet, and prances about. I decided that she really must be allowed to learn ballet.
Thankfully one of my work mates at the library is also a ballet teacher. She would love to have Bethany in one of her classes but they are all held while I am at work but there is a class, taught by Miss Jess and Miss Milly, on Wednesday afternoons that fits in perfectly. When I told Bethany that she would be doing ballet she was so excited and then concerned. She was worried that she didn't know how to actually do any ballet and I realise now that she was thinking that she would be asked to go onstage and perform! Once I explained that she would be going to ballet classes and that someone will show her how to do ballet, her excitement was hard to contain.
It is a class for pre-schoolers and they don't have to have shoes or the proper coloured leotard for the first term. Bethany wore Jossie's old, pale blue leotard very proudly. Parents and siblings do not watch the class. We all sit in another room and at the end the teachers call us in to watch a little performance of what they learnt. Bethany was very clearly enjoying herself! No-one else was taking photos and it was all over pretty quickly so these photos are poor but you get the idea.
Further to the comments conversation about movies that we are having in the last post, I have a few more categories. My favourite movies from the 8os are Stand by Me, The Princess Bride and Dirty Dancing. A Room with a View was the first grown-up movie that I loved. Foreign films I love include Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, Amelie and Like Water for Chocolate. For light entertainment I can watch Love Actually over and over. The Fifth Element is a sci-fi classic and where can I put Truly Madly Deeply? As for BBC mini-series, obviously I love the Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle Pride and Prejudice. Where would Colin Firth be without it? It was SO funny in Lost in Austen when Amanda made Darcy get in the pond, I'm still chuckling about that. Still, I think I would have to say that the Toby Stephens/Ruth Wilson version of Jane Eyre is the best BBC mini-series ever, no contest!
Thankfully one of my work mates at the library is also a ballet teacher. She would love to have Bethany in one of her classes but they are all held while I am at work but there is a class, taught by Miss Jess and Miss Milly, on Wednesday afternoons that fits in perfectly. When I told Bethany that she would be doing ballet she was so excited and then concerned. She was worried that she didn't know how to actually do any ballet and I realise now that she was thinking that she would be asked to go onstage and perform! Once I explained that she would be going to ballet classes and that someone will show her how to do ballet, her excitement was hard to contain.
It is a class for pre-schoolers and they don't have to have shoes or the proper coloured leotard for the first term. Bethany wore Jossie's old, pale blue leotard very proudly. Parents and siblings do not watch the class. We all sit in another room and at the end the teachers call us in to watch a little performance of what they learnt. Bethany was very clearly enjoying herself! No-one else was taking photos and it was all over pretty quickly so these photos are poor but you get the idea.
Further to the comments conversation about movies that we are having in the last post, I have a few more categories. My favourite movies from the 8os are Stand by Me, The Princess Bride and Dirty Dancing. A Room with a View was the first grown-up movie that I loved. Foreign films I love include Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, Amelie and Like Water for Chocolate. For light entertainment I can watch Love Actually over and over. The Fifth Element is a sci-fi classic and where can I put Truly Madly Deeply? As for BBC mini-series, obviously I love the Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle Pride and Prejudice. Where would Colin Firth be without it? It was SO funny in Lost in Austen when Amanda made Darcy get in the pond, I'm still chuckling about that. Still, I think I would have to say that the Toby Stephens/Ruth Wilson version of Jane Eyre is the best BBC mini-series ever, no contest!
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