A dance update!

We've been busy at Iwanson preparing for our "showing" that was last night. It's a show only for first years to show friends and family what we've been working on and to give an idea of what our everyday life is at Iwanson. Doing it reminds me how lucky I am to get to do what I love everyday, no matter how hard it is. We did a ballet barre and centre work, contemporary phrase and two exercises and an awesome Jazz dance to Nickelback "Gotta be Somebody". Next show is the big end of year show in front of 600 people in Gasteig; I cant wait to start rehearsing!!

It's show time!

I now have a week holiday and once we come back us and the other first year class swap ballet teachers for two weeks :) Happy to have a holiday as my right knee, wrist and lower back are all hurting! Today as the last day we spent 3 hours going over a phrase and then being split into various groups and having different creative tasks to change the dance. My group had cannon, simple enough but as we have worked purely on technique since September it was really nice to have our own creative input in the phrase!




Also doing sit ups 3 times a day is starting to pay off :)

Trying to catch the sun

A food update...

Here is just a random collection of the yummy food I've been cooking :) Oh and my basil plant is still alive!!!

Stuffed pepper with roasted vegetables

Bratkartoffeln and runner bean salad

Pasta, spinach and an egg!

 Me and Jorg also baked butterfly cakes one Sunday :)

Cucumber salad!

Roasted vegetables

Yummy!

A snowy update

Sorry for the lack of posts! Been busy this past month so heres a little summary of what's happened so heres a post about the amount of snow we've had in January! (It still snows every night)

It's so nice to have a view of the snow from our dance studios!

 Behind my building

 Walking to school

I also made a snowman (we named him Hansi) with my boyfriend in Englischer Garten; as the snow was too powdery he was very little, but cute nonetheless :)

New year, new start!

Happy new year!
This is my first week back at Iwanson and although I had an awesome three weeks back in England, I'm so happy to be back in Munich and to be dancing every day :)
As it's the new year I have decided to avoid cake as much as poss (I know, it will be hard!) However I went shopping the other day and went mad with vegetables and fruits :D Here's some nice stuff I've made so far..

Oh I also bought a basil plant!

Yum yum yum

Other than that my muscles are sooo sore from 3 weeks of no dancing but I don't mind :)
We're starting to get ready for a "showing" on the 7th Feb, basically where everyone can watch each other perform and friends and family can come too :) and we found out today that on the 20th March we have our Anatomy exam. Why I'm actually excited for an Anatomy exam I have no idea!

Happppy new year!
Larissa

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..

Yesterday I did my exam! Wooo so happy its over and now I can relax :) We now spend the next two days having individual talks from our teachers about what we need to improve etc. It's been snowing like mad here and today its snowy AND sunny! Always a plus, I tried to take some photos but as its been sooo cold outside I didn't want to take my gloves off to take the photo (disadvantages of having a touch screen phone) so I dont have many photos :P Everytime I go outside I sing to myself "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas". So excited for Christmas!!! And coming back to England on Saturday :)

View from Window in Iwanson :) snowy trees!

Tired

Short post today as I am so tired. Dancing is hard.
Here is a photo of me in a Sombrero to entertain you, although it refuses to go round the right way even though I've already rotated it :(

Goodnight!

Tollwood

Just a little post about Tollwood - where I went today. This is a Christmas Market located in the same place that Oktoberfest is. It's a great place to buy Christmas presents (and presents for yourself) as the stalls there are from all around the world. There are also different tents you can go into eg the food tent (food stalls from all around the world) and tents that have live bands. Here are some pics!

One of the tents!

 Me and Santa :)

Food tent!

We stopped off for some mulled wine which arrived in these adorable mugs.

   

Thats about it! Last week dancing was really stressful and hard but I've recovered and ready for another week of dance! One week left until my first exam at Iwanson!

Larissa