One week down, 22 more to go... but who's counting?

Well, I am back at school. I still am not ready to be back at it and I am definitely not ready for the stress that is my life for the next 22 weeks. I need to stop stressing about everything and just go with the flow. I'm not sure how possible that will be considering my personality but I really should try.

At the end of this month my beginner ages 10-14 class has their first ballet exam and I am helping with a casino fundraiser and working a 9:45pm-3:00am shift for the school. Yikes. I also have to finish all of my choreo for the Spring Show and teach it to my students as well as find time in their short classes to make sure they know all of their work and can do it well.

At the beginning of February I have my exam tryout to see if I am ready for my Advanced 1 exam in June. I am working so hard and I really really want this so I hope that I will be ready! I also will have a full Sunday at the beginning of Feb where the grades 1-6 have their exam tryouts and it is manditory for me to attend. A full day of watching Cecchetti.... is actually not as bad as it sounds but my bum always hurts by the end of the day and I get a bit phased out. At the end of February there is also the dress rehearsal which means a full day at the school on a Sunday.

This is just a glimpse of the next few months of mine. I am already at the school 6 days a week normally, and my days are long and full. Adding another day onto that means I sometimes don't get a break for 2 weeks or more. Also, my school is very physical so my body doesn't get its' much needed rest during that time.

Wow, this entire post so far is me complaining about school. Normally I love school but lately it seems like a chore and my motivation for going is not there. I have not been enjoying school at all lately, which is a shame. I really should enjoy my last few years of being a student because once I'm done, real responsibility happens.

Back to Normal Life

It is the second last day of Christmas Break and we are not ready to go back to school and life. Especially since my teacher emailed us today with a homework assignment due on Monday!! It's supposed to be a break! What is she thinking?! What if I was still out of town? On vacation somewhere? What if I had family visiting? Or had the last 2 days of freedom planned out?

I do have plans tomorrow... to work on choreography that has to be done asap. Now on top of that I'm supposed to do homework? I do not think that is acceptable, but at least this time she didn't email us homework at midnight the night before it is due.... yet. She's done it before so she may add on tomorrow night, who knows?

So, what did we do on our Christmas Break, you may ask? It was one heck of a vacation, I'll tell you that. We drove to Brian's parents house on Saturday the 22nd. We had a few nice days of visiting and then on Christmas day, in the late afternoon we both started feeling sick. I had a swollen, sore throat and plugged sinuses. Brian had a fever, cough and plugged sinuses. We eventually both had fever, chills, sore throat, a horrible cough, runny nose, stuffy nose, muscle soreness/aches, swollen glands, nausea/stomach aches and a raw throat. I think that's it. It was so strange to see Brian really sick. He usually gets little to no symptoms while I get sick but this time he had it really bad. The even worse thing is that even though we got home the Friday after Christmas, we wouldn't feel better for a long time. I don't remember the exact day we started feeling less sick but it has been a week and 4 days and we are still not completely recovered. Our runny and stuffy noses are still bothering us and we have been coughing a bit still too. Worse. Break. Ever.