Dance Dance Dance!!!

I canæt remember if I talked at all about my dance in Norway, so here it is!

I am taking a ballet and jazz class at Studio Nille and I am helping to student teach two 4-5 year olds and one 5-6 year old class.  Each time I help out at the studio, I become more comfortable with my surroundings and not knowing enough Norwegian to adequately help out.  As I learn more and more, I will be able to help more and I can't wait for that!  My ballet class was tonight and it was great!  They do a different style than what I am used to, which is from England. I think Jill said it was called, "r.a.d.". Something along those lines...  There are only six of us and now the room is too small!  There is only one barre and the room is approximately 18'x15', I'd say.  We will hopefully be moving into a different room or a different time in order to get a different room.

The jazz class that I take is with Solfrid and it is TOTALLY different from the jazz I am used to!  I am used to Bob Fosse style dancing with ballet thrown in, while this jazz is always fluid motion and never hitting a pose or using hands as much as throwing arms.  I like it, but I was completely caught off-guard!

Back to this weekend...

Saturday we slept in.  YAY!  That was so great.  I can't even BEGIN to explain how helpful that was.  I felt like a new person!  Friday night, I had the house to myself.  That was also great!  I just sat and watched TV and worked on my Norwegian.  I have found that having alone time is very scarce as an exchange student.

So, back to Saturday.  We slept in and then we went and saw Step Up 3D at the local movie theater.  Sunday we slept in again and went bowling.  That was a lot of fun.  It was funny because we saw Line, my second host sister, there as we were finishing up the final round.  It was just Solfrid, Jon and me.

Today at school was fun.  I now sit with Solfrid until her stop and then Sondre came and sat with me and soon Alice came on the bus.  We went into the kantina (cafeteria) where they bought kaffe (coffee) and then we went upstairs to the diverse music room.  I had my first individual piano lesson today!  Mari, my teacher, was awesome.  She showed me these amazing exercises for my fingers to warm up before playing.  She said that ten minutes of those exercises is equivalent to two hours of practice.  WOW!

After that was composition class.  We have a poem that we have to write a melody and piano line to.  OMG.  I don't know whether to see that as a good thing or a bad thing, yet.  The poem is about love and hands.

Then we had lunsj and after that was NORSK KLASSE.  FOR THREE HOURS.  I didn't understand anything.  But, while the teacher was talking (she told me before class started that she wasn't expecting me to understand most/all of what she was talking about) I translated the poem so that I would know what type of music to write for the assignment.

During one of our many breaks in the three hour long class, one girl came up to me who had been an exchange student a few years back in Ohio!  She seemed very nice.

I can't think of anything else, except that I am hungry all the time.  I am eating so much peanut butter and bananas it's disgusting.  HAHAHAHAHA