Finally

Hi, welcome back to my blog. Today I will be telling you about how excited I was to finally have a zoom meeting with my ballet teacher, Miss Lucy.  It took a while to get the link up as the password was not working but once I did get to see her I was really excited.  Funnily she called me Sina - another girl in my dance class and I didn't have the courage to correct her as almost everyone is terrified of her.  We had a lovely talk about what we were currently doing and when our online classes will begin.  I can't wait to get started! Today I also finished breaking in my pointe shoes. Yay! It took a month and 3 hours. It was worth it though and now I can start to get my feet stronger in them. I am a bit scared about working in them more as I went on point for 10 seconds a week and then went for a run and I was constantly getting a shock of pain going up through my shins. Although I could break my ankles, knees, or just my legs going on point I am ecstatic about going on pointe as I have been working at ballet since I was 2 and a half years old and it is most definitely my favorite thing to do.

Me in my pointe shoes

What is your favorite thing to do and why.

Delicious

Hi, welcome back to my blog. As you may know I have been going on bike rides to Burwood forest and this afternoon I went on a bike ride and it was incredible. I have always loved this time of the day and going through the forest made it even better. I love this part of the day because it always feels so still and peaceful. I  love how the sun is at a point that makes the light filter through the trees casting golden spots on the forest floor.  I also love how the dust has been illuminated is such a way that it looks like mist flowering through the gaps in the trees which also look good in the light. especially the ones furthest away because in the shadow of the other trees they look so green and dark in contrast to the tiny pieces of broken shells sparkle like a thousand diamonds in the sun. Another reason I love this time of the day is because dinner is almost ready and tonight Mum is making butter chicken.  She is testing out a new recipe for the dish and it tastes incredible. It tasted so good that I stood at the stove spooning it into a mini bowl while the rice was cooking.

The butter chicken.
Have you had butter chicken before?

Bakeing

Hi, welcome back to my blog.  You may know this already but I love to bake and quarantine gives me a chance to experiment with different recipes. I have made quite a lot of baking since lockdown.  Unfortunately or fortunately my Dad keeps eating all the baking so I get to make more. I have made Afghans biscuits, Banana muffins, blondies and more Afghans biscuits. Today I am going to make a lemon cake and I hope it tastes good.  I also love to be in nature and since yesterday was sunny me, my brother and my Mum went for a bike ride in Burwood Forest, it was really fun. We went on a awesome track and got to go up lots of hills. My brother is a great mountain biker and loves to go down hill but dislikes uphill and I am an average mountain biker, love to go uphill and dislikes down hill. I am really glad that we are allowed to go outside for walks and bike rides and am grateful that I live in an area that is safe to do so.

                                                                      My lemon cake
Do you like to bake and if so why and what?

Favorite things to do

Hi, Welcome back to my blog. Today I will be telling you a bit more about what I like to do while I'm in quarantine. As I said in my previous blog post I love to read. Right now I am reading book 4 of the Twilight series and I am really enjoying reading the book. I love to read about any mythical creatures and vampires are my favorite type of 'monster'.  In between having my " nose in my book " as my Mum likes to say, I like to dance. Yesterday I had my first two online dance classes. It was really nice seeing everyone from my dance class, but it came as a bit of a shock when I found out how inflexible I had become within 5 days. I think that it is really nice how the dance school is trying to still keep up the lessons, but still I wish that my ballet school would put up dance classes online. I thought that the online class when really well considering how much space most people had. We learnt the rest of the syllabus for contemporary and learnt a combo to a Billie Eilish song - Everything I wanted. I also got to do some work in my pointe shoes. ( It is my first year with pointe shoes so I am super excited to use them )

My Pointe shoes

That's what I like to do in quarantine. What do you like to do and why?

Quarantine

Hi, welcome back to my blog. Today I will be telling you about what I have been doing in quarantine, what I like about it and what I don't like. When I first heard that school would be shutting down I was quite nervous because that meant that Covid-19 was in the community, but it was not that bad.  This is day 8 of quarantine and I am still alive. We are allowed to go outside for walks around our area as long as we keep two meters from other people and don't play or touch playgrounds. At home I have to still do maths, reading and writing but I can also play a lot more and I have more time to myself. One of my favorite things to do while in quarantine is to read. I love reading and now I have a whole lot more time to read. I am a bit disappointed because I cannot go to my dance class and even though I can dance at home I still have a LOT of things that I can improve on, that my dance teacher could help me with if I could go to dance class.  I  have a online class with my contemporary and lyrical dance teacher today but it will be different and I wish I could have a class with my ballet teacher too.  something else that I enjoy is sewing and knitting and I have had the chance to finishes a unicorn pillow that I have had for ages. 

                                                                  ( My Uni pillow)


That is what I have been doing in quarantine I am now of to bake a cake. Have you been in quarantine before and if so how was or is it.

Reading task

Hi,welcome back to my blog. This week for reading my reading goal is to: Identify some text events and what they make the reader think about. For this goal we had to read a story and then list what the author did and why then we had to make a summary of the story on a poster.

That was my poster. Do you think about why the book is laid out the way it is and of so why. 

Hady burger writing

Hi, welcome back to my blog. This week for writing I have made a writing template for the Tumu hub.

That was my template. What hub would you choose and why?