Tomorrow is Ballet Exam day
Two of the three Baby Smats are doing various dance exams (group Tarantella* and tap for BBS; Grade 1 ballet, tap, modern, and rock and roll for MBS) tomorrow, so I will be spending lots of time sitting in the upstairs changing room trying to work out which shoes are needed next. Yes, each exam needs a different pair of shoes, and they grow out of them at the same speed as they grow out of school shoes, so a word of advice for anyone who has girls, or is thinking about having girls - don't let them take up ballet unless you wish to hand over nearly £300 per term to the ballet teacher, enabling her to drive a rather nice car.
And I have to sew on ribbons to ballet shoes tonight, then take them off again before January because MBS isn't allowed ribbons for class, just for the exams. And find the ballet dresses/jazz pants/leotards/pink socks/white socks that they need.
* she assures me it's all perfectably acceptable, but doesn't Group Tarantella sound ever so slightly dodgy?
And I have to sew on ribbons to ballet shoes tonight, then take them off again before January because MBS isn't allowed ribbons for class, just for the exams. And find the ballet dresses/jazz pants/leotards/pink socks/white socks that they need.
* she assures me it's all perfectably acceptable, but doesn't Group Tarantella sound ever so slightly dodgy?
posted by Smat @ 3:21 PM
3 Comments:
At 10:47 PM,
Tabby Rabbit said…
How did the Baby Smats do? Do tell (when you get a chance between drinking, boiling clementines, unpicking ribbons and knitting paper chains)
At 12:09 PM,
Stef the engineer said…
Wasn't the tarantella the dance that people had to do to cure the taratula bite? I have this vision of hordes of young children nervously approaching the tarantula cage as required preparation for their exam...
Reason number #124 that Stef should never have a child.
At 7:54 AM,
Smat said…
Tabby - we don't get the reults till next lesson (Jan 14th - not that I've started stressing about it yet, oh no), but they think they've done OK. It's actually quite difficult not to pass at this level!
Stef - your arcane general knowledge is a bit scary really. Yes, the Tarantella was originally to ward off tarantulas (and presumably other scary bitey leggy icky creatures) so expect to see Biggest Baby Smat earning lots of money for charity in next year's I'm a Celeb - the creepy crawlies will take one look at her tambourine and disappear into the jungle at top speed.
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