Keeping Up With Juliette

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  Mass production, fossil fuels, greenhouse gases, climate change. These are all things that reign in on our conscience in the media. If we think about where we get our food, the first place our minds seem to go to are the shops. We don't ever think about the factories or the farms or the fields and the millions and millions of trees, acres and acres of land that all get consumed by our need meat, vegetables, grain, wheat, and fruit. When we think of fossil fuels and our greenhouse gas emissions, we pity our daily use of our cars to go to work and school, as well as the simple heating that protects us from the bitter cold or the switch of a light that brightens up the darkness. We don't ever think about how dependent we are on our cars, gas, and electricity. We don't question what's perhaps causing this dependency on food and transport. Because, whilst we're dealing with these problems as separate issues we...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  I had watched the Sherlock Holmes series already a couple of years ago. I went to a sleepover around my friend's house, who just lives around the corner, and she introduced me to this modern twist on the amazing Sherlock Holmes. It was only up until recently that my parents got into the series as well. I've watched a lot of the Vera series with my family and my parents like police and detective series as well so I knew that when they were going to start watching Sherlock Holmes, that they would enjoy it too. It's definitely something that you have to pay attention to when you're watching it because there are moments where Sherlock talks really fast when he's just been assessing a murder scene so you have to keep up with the story. However, it's quite funny because obviously, Sherlock has his accomplice, John Watson, who is not a journalist but a blogger!😂I found that quite funny because he literally docu...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  I kind of hate it when people say that there's a certain way you have to do things. Like, in order to be an engineer you have to get a degree or in order to own a business you have to get a business qualification. For me, personally, it kind of shows how unoriginal we are. In my opinion, it shouldn't be the case that more people take what they know and put it into something that's already been created. Really, people should be creating new things from something that they've never seen before. When it comes down to a dance style, this is what more dancers should try to be doing. I think that far too many dancers copy others instead of being inspired by them. For example, the street group Diversity, got recognition because they created something that dancers didn't really do much of at the time. However, many dancers copied that and the originality of the style was lost because people were copying what Diversit...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  On Sunday, I spent the whole day at Tiffany's Theatre College, in Leigh-On-Sea, Southend. I got given this opportunity from my lovely dance teacher at school. She was taking a couple other girls to the taster day and was wondering if I wanted to go too, so I said yes. I was a bit nervous because I knew it was going to be a tiring day and I didn't know what it was going to be like. Even though I'm not going to attend this college in the future because dance isn't just what I want to do, I really enjoyed the day as a workshop. My parents took me there as they wanted to spend the day by the beach. My sister ended up staying at home because she was going to go out with a friend.  They definitely crammed a lot into the day and they included other elements of performing arts, like acting and singing, not just dance. Surprisingly, I really enjoyed the singing and acting. The teachers were funny and friendly and they w...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Funnily enough, I watched yet another documentary with my family. I feel like many people watch a TV series with their family but for me, it has become a trend to watch documentaries. Yes it's boring; I prefer educational programmes over stuff that's actually entertaining but everyone has their different tastes. This documentary was really interesting because it was about this couple who rescue chimpanzees in Liberia. I already didn't know much about Liberia so it was interesting to learn more about the culture and way of life there. Unfortunately, it was quite sad because the people just had a civil war there so the country was already quite unstable and the people are very uneducated on how they should treat chimpanzees. I don't condone their behaviour but in a way I can understand it. Many people in Liberia are known to kill mother chimpanzees and sell the babies as house pets. In the past, people probabl...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  Recently, I watched the Greatest Dancer on TV with my mum. Overall, the performances I saw were good. The performance that Lily and Joseph made was technically on point and for their age, they were doing really advanced movements like aerials and leaps. I also think that the street duo, Ross and Travis, gave a really strong performance. Their synchronicity and timing was on point, considering how fast the music was. However, I can't help but think that if many of these dancers were perhaps on a different show like Britain's Got Talent, that they would get critiqued on how original their performances were. It's not to say that their dances were bad because many of the things that these dancers did I can't even do but there wasn't anything that was different about them and I think that because it's purely a dance programme, people find it difficult to come up with new choreography. The only original dancer ...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  It's a couple weeks into the term and there's already quite a lot to think about. Today, I found out that one of my two sixth form applications was acknowledged and the other was still being sent to the provider. This most likely means that interviews are coming up, where sixth forms will ask questions about you and you have to tell them all the things you like doing and what you're good and bad traits are, etc. I'm not nervous at all for these. If anything I'm quite excited because it will be an excellent chance to talk about myself and to promote my talents. I'm hopefully going to mention my blog to them, since I'm hoping to take English as one of my courses in sixth form. However, I'm still very much on the fence about where I want to go, to be honest. I had it in my head for so long that I wanted to go to this quite competitive college but after a conference day that we had about post 16, I re...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, I truly believe that the choirmaster himself, Gareth Malone, has a way of bringing people together. Not only does he get people to sing in harmony, but he also gets them to act in harmony. I watched the spectacular performance he did with Watford General Hospital at Christmas, where he promoted the amazing nurses and people who have worked tirelessly for their patients and children; the end performance was so beautiful that I think it made people with even the strongest of hearts, cry. It may not be your usual method of cooperation but I think there's truly something therapeutic behind music and singing that Gareth has managed uncover.  In contrast to this, I watched his second documentary, where he tried to get the supposedly "reckless" youth of Aylesbury Prison to sing. I was shocked and perhaps not quite as sympathetic to the young offenders at first because I immediately learnt of the crimes they'd committ...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, I know that I was supposed to write a review of the Greatest Dancer for today but I think that I'm going to move that to next week because I really want to talk about something that I think is really meaningful. As much as I love dance, I do feel as though the meaning of dance has changed over the years and that people nowadays are doing dance for different reasons. In the past, dance was based a lot more around creativity and a different way to express how you feel about something. I think that tap dance was actually a style performed on the streets, where the dancers would literally attach pieces of metal to the soles of their shoes and create a completely different way of moving. Now, we see this form of dance on Broadway musicals like Chicago, where the style is now associated with class and elegance. I think that it's completely natural that things change as everything has to evolve with it's time, in order to be...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  Obviously, as I'm sure you've heard a million times already, it's 2020 and it's a new decade. Already, from the last decade, we've moved on and our culture has evolved and expanded it's horizons. As we're moving on in technology and intelligence, whilst many people who already live comfortable and happy lives, doing the things that they want to be doing, will continue to expand their cultural horizons, there will also be a lot of other people left behind.  Quite recently, about two days ago, I watched a documentary with my family, about the Inuits in Greenland. It actually came out during the Christmas holiday period but we were late in watching it so we decided to watch it on the Monday evening. It had no British narrator to go with the film, it just had the Inuit male talking about his experiences in this changing world, with subtitles underneath it so you could understand. It was very raw and it ...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, A few days before New Year's Eve, me and my family decided to go on a spontaneous holiday to Yoxford in Suffolk. It was so spontaneous that it was a bit stressful actually getting there. My parents booked a lovely cottage in a Medieval village, on the Friday, and we left on the Saturday. The trouble was that my sister began to feel very ill around midday on Friday so she wasn't able to eat lunch that day and for practically the rest of Saturday. She basically caught the gastric flu that I had a couple days before Christmas Eve. In fact, this whole polava of illness across Christmas came from my dad because he had to go on a work trip to London with a friend who was also very ill and that basically ricocheted throughout my whole family. My sister had caught a cold the week before and unfortunately, a day before we were supposed to be leaving for a nice holiday, she felt even sicker. It was a bit of a bother for her as she ...