The first two weeks of classes at NYU have come and gone,
and we wasted no time getting into the material. All of the classes are great and have already
provided so much valuable information, and have shown great promise for being
very beneficial. One class I started the
semester almost dreading has quickly become one of my favorite classes –
Environment of Arts Administration. And
obviously I love my ballet class. It’s
very exciting and such an honor to take class from some of these people –
Franco de Vita and Raymond Lukens to start with. The ABT classes will result in a
certification of the ABT National Training Curriculum – a great tool for my
resume, especially since I want to focus my career on ballet. After all, that is such a foundation for all
other dance techniques.
I absolutely love my classmates – they are all so talented
and smart and it is great to get to learn from them and with them. Hearing everyone’s stories is really
interesting, too. The professional
connections we are already making with one another will be such a benefit in
the future.
This weekend I started another new adventure – assisting
with classes in the children’s division at the JKO School at ABT. We are assisting in classes where the
curriculum that we are being trained to teach is being taught – seeing it in
action will be so valuable. It is neat
that some of the other teachers are graduates or second-year students in the
NYU/ABT program. It has been
interesting to see the difference in the students here versus students I’ve
taught in the past. I could list so many
differences but I’m not going to for fear of anyone being offended or feelings
being hurt. I could work at someplace
like ABT/JKO forever – it is a dream for everything I’d ever want in a
school.
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| Washington Square Park |
Outside of school, I took a few hours to wander around the
city some more. The adventure was
sparked by the need for another leotard and a few ballet skirts, so I headed to
the Capezio flagship store. From there I
wandered around Rockefeller Plaza, up and down 5th Ave. a little
bit, and ended up walking through Times Square and back home. From Rockefeller it is about a 30 block walk
– not too bad. One thing spoiling me big
time about the city is the closeness of everything. Within a 10 minute time frame I can go to the
bank and get Starbucks and be back home to switch laundry. If I need a few groceries, it’s a round trip
time of about 20-30 minutes, half of which is typically spent in the checkout
line. At West Liberty, it took that just
to get to a store, much less make purchases and drive back.
Anyway – the other neat thing I had the
opportunity to see was the Memorial Lights for the World Trade Center on
September 11. The atmosphere around the
entire city seemed different that day.
That night I spent a few minutes on my roof reflecting as I took in the
lights of the World Trade Center as well as the patriotic red, white, and blue
lights of the Empire State Building.
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| Empire State Building on 9/11/13 |
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| WTC memorial lights on 9/11/13 |
Well, enough for now as homework is calling my name. Thanks again for everyone who actually reads
this – your support means the world to me!
I love and miss everyone so much!
Until next time…
Enjoy Being…
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