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I hate how RAD is changing technique.

It’s so hard to get used to and looks so much worse. The new way to do balances is a joke, glissades is somewhat okay but they do not look nearly as nice as before - it’s like my legs are having a stroke, and the over cross your leg technique is ridiculous. RAD, ever thought that your inability to produce world famous prima ballerinas is due to the fact you are “dumbing down” everything? Sigh, I won’t get all huffy puffy over it, I’m just annoyed. 

Ballet today was great! We went over our syllabus stuff really slowly and worked on little things that will pull everything together. In our open/technical class we learnt the new way of doing some of the steps.

I woke up at 2 so (surprise, surprise) I didn’t get to go stationary shopping. And I decided against buying tights as discount dance was charging me $13 for two tights and $45 for shipping. My teacher told me not to buy demi-pointes just of yet, which I’m kind of relieved about because I am running low on money at the moment. 

My revised to do list for today: 

• Go into uni and collect my academic transcript 
• Buy a planner from Kikki
• Buy a birthday present for dad
• Buy uni stationary from Typo and Morning Glory 
• Call up the volunteer lady and book some time in!
• Make some sushi
• Go for a walk
• Call up Viv, Jen and Coco
• Print out all the necessary papers for uni 
• Fill out the order form for the RAD dvd 
• Look for dance schools near uni and home (and contact some of the good ones!)
• Look for a beginners gymnastics or acro class near uni or home (and contact them too!)
• Book in an interview for volunteering with ALIV 
• Figure out what I’d like to do for open day
• Read! 

I will try and get more done today, but the good news is I book in my Ls test! 14th of February at 12:00pm! 

So, I talked to you today. I hope you can understand why I am doing this. I need to get away from you. You both are killing me. I am hoping that by the end of this I would have destroyed myself enough to start new. I’m hoping you understand and don’t get angry at me. On the other hand, I hate you so much that I want you to suffer like you have made me suffer (I know that’s so evil of me but what I’m doing isn’t really hurting you anyway - you only care for yourself anyway).

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3. clementinesundaes said: I think the new RAD syllabus is harder, especially for intermediate. For Advanced 1 it’s pretty much the same though :)
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