Keeping Up With Juliette

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, It has been a while since I last posted and I did not intend for that to happen. I guess with revision and everything else, writing was the last thing on my mind. However, I thought today I would return to give you guys an update on how I'm getting on physically and emotionally, considering that now we're coming to the end of the Easter holidays and my final exam season is upon us. Physically, I feel fine. Perhaps a little bit tired but not completely burnt out either, which is important. Everyday since the start of this year really, I have been doing at least one hour of dance after work and I think it's helped me a lot. Having that space and time to work on something I enjoy, that involves physical exercise, has been an excellent way to de-stress and for the first time, I think I can see some arm muscles forming!😂💜 I have been doing a lot of calisthenics (as you would have seen with all my handstands on Instagram 😂...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  If you've been following my blog for a while now, I'm sure that you'll recall that for my fundraising for my expedition to Northern Tanzania, I began teaching some dance classes online via Zoom. I hosted a workshop in February half term last year which was really successful - I had around 15 students attending. Then I started teaching another student in the area every week on Wednesday after she attended the February workshop. Although the expedition is now no longer happening, I am looking for something to do during my gap year, after I graduate sixth form next month, which is why I'm opening up my classes to more people. All the relevant information is included in the poster below but just to give you a brief outline of what the classes entail. The classes are for children aged 10 - 12 years, with or without experience in dance. The classes will be held on Zoom every Wednesday between 4:30pm and 5:30pm (GMT+1) an...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  On Saturday, my parents thought it would be a good idea to take me out to the beach, as I had a pretty stressful week and they thought it would be a good way to get me feeling relaxed again. My sister Alice was also out in London that day with her boyfriend Tom, celebrating her birthday, so they didn't think it was fair to leave me at home by myself with nothing to do too. So off I went to Felixstowe with my parents and it turns out that I actually had a pretty good day. I had fish and chips, went on a boat ride around Felixstowe Ferry, and went on a lovely beach walk in the sunshine. It was a lovely sunny day that really lifted my spirits. But when we returned home, we discovered that the chickens had a little adventure of their own too. Before we went to the beach, my dad put the chickens in the confines of the electric fence with some food and water, so that they were in a safe situation whilst we were all away. But where d...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, The end is very near, thank goodness! There are only 2 more weeks left until it is the Easter holidays and then before long, it will be the actual exams. It is equally terrifying as it is relieving because the exams will officially mark the end of a very long and difficult two years, which I have both loved and loathed as I'm sure you could tell. However, the school still enjoys throwing last minute stresses at their students nevertheless and I have certainly been feeling the brunt of this. For a good month or so now, I have been asking my maths teacher on multiple occaisions to talk to me about my maths IA because she brought up a few issues before we broke off for the Christmas holidays, which she said needed to be dealt with. However, she has ceased to talk to me until Friday, a week before the whole IA was supposed to be due in and she said I need to change part of data. This was partly because she is the head of year at my...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  As you all know, for the practical section of the IB Dance course, you are required to film a solo, duet, and group piece. A few months ago now, I filmed the rock 'n roll duet with my partner and it went really well. We had lots of energy and I think we came up with a really fun routine overall. More recently, we filmed our solos and the commercial piece. The solo was choreographed by my dance teacher Orris and a guest teacher called Kate. At first, I wasn't particularly fond of the routine because it was a contemporary routine and well, we always do contemporary. My initial dislike for the choreography was probably visible in the rehearsal process because I don't think I gelled with it at all. However, as the lessons where we were learning the routine went by, I gradually grew to like the choreography and I think I really found myself in the movements in the end. Kate told us that in order for us to get the best out o...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  I was listening to another one of Professor Jordan B Peterson's interviews the other day. This time it was with a historian called Professor Frederick Kagan and the pair discussed the unfolding situation in Ukraine. It was quite interesting because although Kagan had studied Russia's deep and complex history in a huge amount of detail, he actually admitted on the podcast that he had made the wrong prediction about Putin and his war with Ukraine. Although Kagan correctly predicted that should Putin actually invade Ukraine, he would be faced with many problems and challenges that would begin to overwhelm the Russian forces, he didn't actually believe that Putin would actually invade the country as he eventually did, in the first place. To be honest, I've heard many similar stories. My mum said that she was listening to an interview on the radio recently where this woman discussed the general emotions that were displa...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, If you follow me on Instagram, you would have seen the photos I had put on my stories recently of me going to watch George Orwell's Animal Farm as a play at the Cambridge Arts Theatre and me going to watch a concert with friends at the West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge. Today, I thought it would be nice to tell you about those two experiences.  O ne of my friends Celena is Russian and she is a very smart, intelligent, and cultured person. When my dad came to pick me, Teresa, and Celena up after the play, it was actually the first time that he had met Celena, and he was amazed by how eloquent and switched on she was. She was talking about how she studied in New Zealand and came to England from Switzerland to study the IB, and also about how she wanted to study psychology in the future. So you can understand why it was Celena who invited all of us girls to these two very intellectual events. 😂💜💜 F or Animal Farm, it was actu...