Just cant let go of the nutcracker... Haha...

Well, tomorrow is my birthday!!! I am actually turning 21!!! Jeezz!!!! Can you imagine...
Had a ballet class yesterday at my old dance school with a man called Fredrick Rütter. He used to dance with the Norwegian National Ballet, and he has been a ballet critic for a leading newspaper here in Norway for many years. It was a really good class! Hard, though.. In the end, we had this petit allegro with jeté battu: jeté battu, temps leve, temps leve, temps leve, repeat on the other leg, glissade jeté battu x 3, pas de bouree en tournaunt.. And it was sooooo quick!! We also did a lot of small jumps. My feet and calves were sooo tired by the end, and when we again had to do sautes and stuff, I felt like I was going to die! Haha.. But it is good to be pushed like that!! We also had rehersals because me and a few other girls are going to dance at a new years concert on january 7th.. We are going to dance the coda from the nutcracker, and I am going to do my sugarplum variation, but to another song. So I am going to make a new costume for that. Have to get fabric and stuff today.. We are also doing a sort of jazzy thing to the finale number. So Camilla (the teacher and owner of the studio) had to make that up yesterday, but we did not quite finish, so we are going to have another rehersal in a week..
Am going to town now and meet Malin, then I am going to the studio to work on the dances from yesterday and possibly do a bit of jazz/modern thing... Good to do some exercise when I have the chance...

Ok, I cant quite let go of the nutcracker, so here are some more pics from the dvd (taken with snapshot...) So they are kind of blurry, but hey...