Three Days Later

My family may not celebrate Halloween, but it has always been a tradition of ours to carve pumpkins!

Here I am, three days after Cecchetti Exams and still no scores have come. Despite this, I haven’t had to do a single Cecchetti combination since Sunday. Here is what I have been doing:

On Monday, Miss Sara continued a previous lesson on “cabrioles.” They are so much fun, however they can be quite difficult too. We worked with a partner on only moving the bottom leg in this type of leap/jump. It was kind of scary, seeing that your partner must hold your top leg still– I would hate to kick Valerie’s hand!

Yesterday was also Cecchetti-free; we practiced battements in center to “The Addams Family” theme song (complete with snapping) instead! Miss Sara also gave me a two month assignment– I have to work on my turn-out. We were not able to begin the 3-5 year-old Christmas Dance (Miss Jennifer had some other things to catch up on), but we do have a new student! Speaking of students, we have quite a few (I think the class may be full). Here is a list of the girls’ first names (in alphabetical order of course):

• Angie (New!)
• Brooke
• Dalainey
• Eliana
• Gabriella
• Hayden
• Kaylyn 
• Kira
• Laila
• Laila
• London
• Lydia
• Malia
• McClairen
• McKayla
• Molly 
• Natalia 
• Reese 

The spelling of these 18 beautiful names is all my own; I’m not perfectly sure they are correct. (P.S. Yes, we do have a “Laila One” and “Laila Two.”)

There was much talk of the cherubs’ costumes yesterday. Maybe I will see them soon…!