So well let me give you the rundown on what I have been doing. We had some dance practice over the last two days but I have to say not that much than what we should be doing. I wish we would practice more but John Rey for some reason does not want to but what can I do? I guess for the next week though before competiton hopefully we would be able to practice hard.
On Saturday we woke up pretty late in the morning If I recall correctly. We went into the city and had a wonder before our lessons at 1pm in the afternoon. It was a beautiful day on this day and I was rather loving having to walk around the city. I was quite nervous about like meeting Julie & Andrey's teacher cos I was honestly not sure what to expect. After having walked around in the city we finally made our way to the studio at Thornbury.
We rucked up at the studio half an hour early and there were quite a few couples and such having lessons so it was nice to see. They were practicing New Vogue. I have never seen this dance being danced before until I went to Tracy's Studio on the Gold Coast last year and learnt how to dance it with Don Don and such and it was quite weird however it was not to bad either. I do no really understand though as to why people would want to dance it.
We started our lessons at 2pm with Jim. I found him to be quite joyful to be taught from and he corrected like a fair bit of our rumba routine and made it stronger. I like what he did for us and he helped us with our connection. He fixed some of our steps in the routine and made it stronger too so I was really happy about that. He was very impressed with John Rey's body movement. He had given John Rey good praises and comments on his dancing so he was happy.
After our lessons we stayed there and practiced our Samba and such but not to seriously unfortunately. I wished we would have been more motivated to our practice however he was looking at some young chick dancing with her partner. I know I should not go into so much detail but still :P He does get distracted pretty easily. He is a boy. What can i do?
After our practice we made our way home by tram. We've been getting good by travelling by the tram. We travelled all the way home via the city. It was about 30 - 40 minutes by tram. We had to make a few stops along the way and the tram was getting more and more packed with people.
We finally reached the city and walked around for a bit more before going back home. We were kinda like dreading to go home reason being is because he knew that he would have to teach my cousin and Aunt which they unfortunately realize it's his job to teach them and not for free but of course they do know this and we just had a discussion about it yesterday night before going to bed. Unfortunately I do not know how to tell them and such if they want him to teach them more.
So we have been eating out a fair bit as well. Going around the town of Melbourne. I took John Rey to the St Kilda Sea Baths which was absolutely beautiful. We were there for about almost 3 - 4 hours. We met up with a friend of mine Jess yesterday and her boyfriend and had lunch in a italian restaurant at Acland Street I believe it is called. It was a beautiful and sunny day however it would not be possible for people to go swimming at the time at least not in the ocean yea.
So we walked along the market whilst waiting for Jess to show up and we saw some really nice things that had been done and made by the locals but they were unfortunately rather pricey. I picked up a coconut like bracelet which is actually quite nice. It reminds me of the bracelete that Lindsay Lohan wore in the movie "Mean Girls" John Rey had picked up a really wicked ring and something small for his wife which was nice.
We finally met up with Jess and walked towards the restaurant. It was a nice atmosphere and ambience in the place that we had gone too. It was more like a chilled hang out place but on this particular day since it was the weekend it had a few families and such. But overall it was a nice restaurant with good bread and dips which the four of us loved lots.
We ordered like two pizza's and 1 pasta which was not that bad. However I was not that hungry at the time so I just had two slices of pizza which I ordered. It was delicious. We managed to finish the pizza that I had ordered but there was only one slice of the pizza left. So we just left it with the other pizza that Jess had ordered and her boyfriend took it home. After lunch we went to Apples which is like a ice cream company which I do not think was that good. I would have rathered trampoline but I go a ice cream along with Jess and soon as I stood out of the store it had stared to melt which was not very good at all.
So we went back and walked along the Sea Baths and then we met up with a filipino which John Rey was totally happy about. He had seen so many motorcycles which he loved at the Sea Baths I had been asked to take photos of him with them. As crazy as it sounds it made him happy so I did it. And then we say something else that he loved which was the Kite boarding. It was a big thing that was going on that day and there were a few people doing it mostly men riding the waves with they're kites.
We had finally left St Kilda by about four and caught a tram back into the city cos I had arranged to meet Aunt Alice and such for dinner around 6.45 in the Marriott Hotel in the Lobby. We had time to kill cos it only took us about 20 minutes by tram to get to the city so we walked around again before some of the shops closed we had managed to see some nice things but however we did not buy anything from any of the stores we had gone too.
Whilst making my way to the Marriott Hotel I was getting a bit lost so I had to ask people for directions. It was rather irritating because John Rey was being in a irritating mood once again. He was getting on my nerves however I would of course not tell him. He's just like that I realize.
So we finally met up with my cousins and hopped into the car and went to Frankston for dinner. We went to have some Vietnamese food. I loved the Rice rolls that they had. They had put chicken in it and it was delicious however I did not quite like the leaves that they put in there. Other than that the others ordered they're own dishes but I have to say that the chicken in chill and garlic was also delicious. We were all pretty hungry and tired especially John Rey and I so we did not have much mood to eat at a slow pace.
After dinner we stopped by a milk bar aka gas station and picked up some ice lollies. I did not really like mine because it was rather heavy and rich at the same time so I just nibbled a little bit of it and then chucked the rest at home. When we got home it was intime to catch So You Think You Can Dance Australia. I had to say it was my first time being able to catch this episode and like it was good. I saw some pretty good dancers and I loved they're routines. It was beautiful to see them being so flexible and versatile. Totally impressive.
After the show had ended I headed back to the room and crashed on my bed as well as John Rey had crashed on his for about an hour because he had to teach my cousins and aunt again some music. This time he was focusing on Hip Hop and corrected her movements and gave her some new steps to practice so yes she benefitted from it a lot I would say.
Whilst John Rey had been busy teaching I was just checking my e-mails and such and then not to long after I headed to bed...
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