Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Where did sleepy time go?

I am very tired this morning after last evenings belly dance practice. I lost count of how many times we did the drum and veil dance. It is very fast and full of shimmies and veils flying all over the place. Plus with there being about 15 of us and I was standing with the less experience group we kept hitting each other and getting tangled in our veils. Of course the 'veterans' were flying round the floor gracefully. I was so hot - especially seen as how it was a rather hot and humid day yesterday. Just as we would finish the dance, the instructor would say again. As I said before, I lost count how many times we did it. However, by the end I had definitely improved and was getting less tangled. We did have the odd time when we stopped to go over a move that we were doing wrong, but soon she'd say, "Again!"
Janka has booked me for 2 performances already: the Chilli Festival on the 28th of Feb and for a 50th birthday party on the 7th of March. I'm also going to be auditioning/interviewing for a teacher's assistant position next week. I don't expect to get it as there are lots of people going for it that are more experienced and better than me, but I thought I go get the experience and learn from it.
Today the school is having photos. Photo day is awful. The kids are constantly being called out of class for various photos and so doing any worthwhile work is impossible. I made my grade 10s test each other on all the work we've done so far this year. My matrics are doing whatever they want as I started the lesson with 4 girls out of 29, so I waited and now that they are all here - the lesson is almost over. Um ... now the lesson is over and I have to teach some Gr9s about evaluating websites.

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