We had to drop you off at the Loft 39 at 12.45pm. But with the crazy traffic, you only arrived at nearly 1.30pm. Nothing to worry about.. it was just to have your make up done.
Daddy and Ko-ko dropped me off later at around 4.45pm. There was a long queue; waiting to enter the stage area and waiting to register. Finally made my way in at 5pm.
There were so many dancer seated on the floor, but I think I saw you.. you were so made up, I could not be sure it was you.
Today is your examination day. You needed to arrive at the center by 8.30am (1.5 hours before your exam time). Daddy had to drop you as I had a meeting and it seems that you were the first to arrive. No teachers were there yet, but the administrator was around. Daddy waited with you until the teachers arrived.
I asked for a photo of you (before the exams). But this was what I got 😡
Today is Parent's Day at the ballet academy. As usual, we dropped you off to start the lessons for the day. Then daddy and I went off in search for some stuff at Queens Waterfront before heading back to the academy where we were to observe the dancers going through the exam dances.
Halfway through one of your dances, your bun started to come undone. And at one stage, one of the u-pin even flew off your head!
At the end of the session, Miss Foo also gave some feedback on your behavior and area to improve for the upcoming examination.Well, I'm proud to say that you have done very well and danced rather gracefully. Hope that you will do well in your Grade 5 exams.
Today is the day of your exam. For once, you do not need to miss school since it's a Sunday. We arrived just before 1.30pm and the school is already calling to check whether you'd be arriving soon. Left you in the ballet school and came back later to pick you up. Shortly after I arrived, you came out of the "exam" room. You were excitedly telling me that the examiner was an Australian lady with an accent you found difficult to understand. And you even made a mistake, but luckily she was looking down when that happened.
Either way, I'm proud that you've done your best. Here are some shots of you after the exam:
Today was supposed to be a photography session for the dancers participating in the year end event. Well, I had checked with the studio and they informed me that lessons will go on as usual up till the time to get ready for the session i.e. 3.40pm. Since you'd be having lessons first, it didn't make sense for me to put on the makeup for you in advance.
Well, turned out that everyone wanted to have their makeup done by the teachers in school. On top of that, your group only started having their makeup done from 5pm! This resulted in a backlog... a very long and delayed backlog!
Daddy and I had gone grocery shopping and there was heavy traffic on the way there, and we'd thought that we were late. In the end, we waited another 1.5 hours before you were done with the photoshoot!
Here are some shots of our little Thai girl:
Luckily too we had a change of plans to have sandwiches for dinner at home. So when we got home, we prepared the ingredients while you took a shower.
Opted to WFH today as we needed to drop you off at the ballet center.
It is surprisingly only less than a year since you last took your Grade 2 exams. Miss Foo had to evaluate you and finally gave her consent to allow you to take the exams this year with your friends.
We arrived at 11am, as requested by the ballet school. Since you didn't go to school, you got to sleep in. But then you spent too much time in front of the tv, you had to rush to shower and dress up and do a Covid test.
Upon arrival, you immediately had your hair worked on. That was when I left and went home to continue working.
Then I received a couple of pictures from one of your friend's mum. So nice of her to share the photos with me.
Today is your ballet exams. You will be examined for Grade 1.
I had to buy gel so that we can hold up your (not too long, and not too short) fringe. In fact halfway through the exam your fringe started to fall off. I had to quickly comb in more gel to hold it back up.
Just before the exam you decided to mention that teacher also said we can put a ribbon in your hair. Thanks for the last minute message! Luckily I had a container full of ribbons. Found one the closest to the color of your leotard.
You have been attending online lessons since MCO started. When most of your friends went back to the studio later on, we continued to have you attend online lessons seeing that it was still an available option. There was only once when you went in as the teacher wanted to see you face to face to evaluate whether you are coping with learning online. The following week we thought to let you go back, but was turned away due to "higher" temperature. Daddy and I then decided to just continue with the online lessons as we did not want to rush back every time we go in to the studio and get turned away.
When you started lessons, you were doing it in your room. But then later on you had character shoes (with heels) and that would scratch the wooden floor in the room, so the venue changed to the living room. The space here was bigger too.
Most days we'd go out to run errands or just leave you alone while we stay in our room. Today we decided to enjoy the aircon in the living room and also listen/watch you have your lessons.
Managed to sneak a photograph of you:
Your ballet dance shoes are finally home. I had to go to the studio to pick it up today and just on time before your online lessons.
As the shoes goes "clickety clack", Ah Kong said that you should not practice in the room anymore as the shoes will scratch the wooden flooring. So practice will need to be in the living room. You told Ah Kong "You cannot watch TV for 2 hours while I have lessons". Haha...
These pictures were taken by you as you wanted to show daddy (who was at golf) your new high heels.
