First day wasn't too bad mostly cause we didn't do anything. My parents helped me unpack and then left so I could have the "Lite Lunch" with my roommate Rachel. (I'll add pictures when i get them uploaded.) We ate and got to know each other a little bit before going back to our dorm, Gillespie. We ended up hanging out with Christina who was Rachel's suite mate last year and Christina's roommate Karson who goes to the school of Ballet Magnificat! and ended up in my level. We were hanging out on the stairs in everyone's way but it was pretty fun. Our dorm only had 4-weekers for the first two weeks plus we had the four guys in our dorm. We had free time all day so we ended up getting really bored and the guys at one point came down and were hanging out with us which was really funny cause they started giving each other foot massages and they were stretching and DEFINITELY not gay. :-) Unfortunately the only cute one was little-boy-cute. He was so funny. His parents are missionaries in Japan and he was born there but he apparently isn't very good at Japanese and he wasn't very good at English either. This kid is Amazingly flexible! He can to a 180 degree ponche! Look that up if you don't know what it is, it's amazing! We had a hall meeting to get to know everyone which was interesting and then we went to sleep.
The next day we had placement classes which weren't too bad but afterwards we found out that we had no hot water. Ugh. We had to wait till dinner to see if you got called back to audition for the pre-professional level which I didn't but I didn't really expect to. Christina that I was talking about before got called back and ended up making it in. We had to wait until the next day to find out our levels. I made level 6 and Rachel made level 8. I was at the Ballet Mag studios almost every day which was not fun cause you had to take the buses and got almost no free time. Only one other person from my hall was in my level. Victoria and i ended up being pretty close cause we spent a whole bunch of time together.
Classes were OK for the first session. Every day you had to meet the bus (if you were going to ballet mag studios) at 9:30 then you had a technique class from 10:00-11:45 then you got back on
the bus to go back to the college for lunch. After lunch we generally had 15 minutes before we had to start heading for the bus again at 1:00 to make sure we were on them when they left at 1:15. You get back to the studios and might have a pointe, conditioning, modern, jazz, or improv class from 1:45-3:00. Then you get a 15 minute break before variations class from 3:15-5:00. For the first two weeks variation was horrible cause we had two really really strict teachers so it was really stressful and not very fun. I ended up with a duet in the beginning of my dance but I didn't actually get to dance very much. That was pretty much my day for the first week.
Friday of the first week was like Christmas for everyone cause it was the first time you got to call home. It was amazing! I scared my mom cause I started crying wen I heard her and I was just thinking that I didn't want to stay for the next 3 weeks. The whole thing was a great experience but being away from home that long was as good as murder.
Ok so that was pretty much my first week. Hopefully in the next few days I will post the other three weeks.
