A Really Lovely Tuesday

Today is the day my group got to go apply for our permit of stay! We left in the morning aster breakfast and arrived at the police station at around 9am. From there we all took numbers and proceeded to wait for a while. Luckily the wait wasn’t too boring since everyone in my group ended up chatting for the entire time.

Eventually it was my turn to go up and I proceed to unload all of the documents I had been told to bring. But the guy just barely looked at my passport, took on of the photos I brought, and scanned my fingerprints into the system. I then had to wait some more to have my fingers and my palms scanned in more formally by someone else. (I actually found this part really cool! Watching intense close ups of my finger prints appear on the computer was really interesting.)

Eventually we all were finished and headed back to the villa. Unfortunately, by the time we got back, both our first morning class was finished (which we had expected), and our second class was almost done. However, we did get to do some fun things in the class before it ended. The class was voice and was with the theater students, but it was so unlike any voice class I’ve ever taken. Tim and I partnered in an exercise where someone was always physically on top and the other on the bottom while both made noised (with the top person always making a higher noise than the bottom). I really enjoyed this especially the time when Tim lifted me on his back while on all fours. I was only touching the ground with my elbows, and, when he started moving, I had to walk my elbows to keep up with him! From that exercise, we got to see Emily and Arthur have a bullfight and Kate lead a group in singing “Soft Kitty” from the Big Bang Theory. Both were absolutely hilarious.

Later, after all of our classes were done, Sophie, Hannah, and I used some of our free time to work on the group choreography we had to create for Giorgio’s class and were showing to Rita tomorrow. For the assignment, we have to use only movement that we’ve learned in Rita’s and Giorgio’s class so we ended up creating over half of the dance rather quickly. Overall I think it looks really good so far, and it was really fun working with Hannah and Sophie.

After we finished Sophie agreed to help give me notes after ballet class (since I can’t rely on the teachers to give constructive criticism) and to help me learn to fouette turn! We then just chatted about how safe the atmosphere is here in the dance program and about not stressing too much about our work and just enjoying it. The entire conversation just filled me with excitement and definitely decreased my stress. It was a really lovely Tuesday.

Ciao!