Adventures in Matcha Lattes, Kung Fu, and Cat Cafes
It's been an eventful two weeks, to say the least. I've gotten out of the dorm more, although not very far until today.
I went once to open class at Joffrey in the evening, once to the gym, and twice out near Times Square for brief encounters with the world of Wing Tsun Kung Fu. The Wing Tsun classes were so much fun that I had an extremely tense four days while I tried desperately to choose between Wing Tsun and Krav Maga while also measuring how well I could keep up with my ballet classes. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) the school nurse/nutritionist at Joffrey recommended that I not do either, due to injury risk. While it does make sense now, since my days will go to 6pm now that rehearsals for the performance are starting, I am pretty bummed out that I won't be continuing my self-defense/Black Widow skill-set collecting. On the plus side, I do now know how to get out of both a wrist grab and a bear hug.
When the ballet goes away, I'll keep Wing Tsun and Krav Maga in mind, definitely.
Also, I've finally stopped limiting myself to the meal plan, and started to enjoy the cafes near Joffrey. I made a friend in one of my classmates and she took me to cafes where I enjoyed matcha lattes and quadruple shot lattes (which I did not even know was a thing). While the quadruple shot latte led to me battling light-headedness during modern class, I had a grand time. My new friend has since gone home, but we're still in contact and collaborating on programs for students like us (read: late starters or older pre-professional students).
This weekend was a weekend chock full of friend meet-ups and eating way too decadently (both for my health and my wallet) but I was so happy I don't even care. I found my best friend from high school--a girl that I met in 6th grade and love to death--and I went with her and her boyfriend and another friend she met abroad in Spain, and we went on a sort of abridged bar crawl, from a summery pop-up tapas restaurant to a Shakespeare-inspired rooftop bar to pizza near the Highline. I also met up with another good friend's college buddy who's NYC local and she took me around--from ramen to mango jelly drinks to a cat cafe. Yes, a cat cafe. It was my first time at such an establishment and I sort of felt like I'd done a yoga class. Cats will calm you right down.
On the more serious side of things this weekend, I took an extra pointe class--my second open class at Peridance Capezio Center, which, of course, is home to another professional training program that I auditioned for (and was rejected from). It's a nice little facility with a wide range of classes, and not that far from Joffrey, which means it will be easy for me to supplement my training there. I took a beginning pointe class in the scariest studio (in the basement, bare stone walls behind plexiglass, worn hardwood floor) and broke in some new shoes. Pointe work is a real struggle for me, which was not a problem at Joffrey until we had one class where the teacher was asking for fouettes en pointe.
I can't even do fouettes in canvas shoes. That's yet another thing to work on.
I went once to open class at Joffrey in the evening, once to the gym, and twice out near Times Square for brief encounters with the world of Wing Tsun Kung Fu. The Wing Tsun classes were so much fun that I had an extremely tense four days while I tried desperately to choose between Wing Tsun and Krav Maga while also measuring how well I could keep up with my ballet classes. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) the school nurse/nutritionist at Joffrey recommended that I not do either, due to injury risk. While it does make sense now, since my days will go to 6pm now that rehearsals for the performance are starting, I am pretty bummed out that I won't be continuing my self-defense/Black Widow skill-set collecting. On the plus side, I do now know how to get out of both a wrist grab and a bear hug.
When the ballet goes away, I'll keep Wing Tsun and Krav Maga in mind, definitely.
Also, I've finally stopped limiting myself to the meal plan, and started to enjoy the cafes near Joffrey. I made a friend in one of my classmates and she took me to cafes where I enjoyed matcha lattes and quadruple shot lattes (which I did not even know was a thing). While the quadruple shot latte led to me battling light-headedness during modern class, I had a grand time. My new friend has since gone home, but we're still in contact and collaborating on programs for students like us (read: late starters or older pre-professional students).
This weekend was a weekend chock full of friend meet-ups and eating way too decadently (both for my health and my wallet) but I was so happy I don't even care. I found my best friend from high school--a girl that I met in 6th grade and love to death--and I went with her and her boyfriend and another friend she met abroad in Spain, and we went on a sort of abridged bar crawl, from a summery pop-up tapas restaurant to a Shakespeare-inspired rooftop bar to pizza near the Highline. I also met up with another good friend's college buddy who's NYC local and she took me around--from ramen to mango jelly drinks to a cat cafe. Yes, a cat cafe. It was my first time at such an establishment and I sort of felt like I'd done a yoga class. Cats will calm you right down.
On the more serious side of things this weekend, I took an extra pointe class--my second open class at Peridance Capezio Center, which, of course, is home to another professional training program that I auditioned for (and was rejected from). It's a nice little facility with a wide range of classes, and not that far from Joffrey, which means it will be easy for me to supplement my training there. I took a beginning pointe class in the scariest studio (in the basement, bare stone walls behind plexiglass, worn hardwood floor) and broke in some new shoes. Pointe work is a real struggle for me, which was not a problem at Joffrey until we had one class where the teacher was asking for fouettes en pointe.
I can't even do fouettes in canvas shoes. That's yet another thing to work on.
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