My blog has hit its first-year mark! Can you believe one year ago I started blogging and just writing about my journey?! Time has flown by so fast.
As you all know, I’m back in Kazan and started my first year of my degree studies. Many people always ask me “what will you actually be ‘studying’, it’s just dancing.” Well, to give you a brief answer, yes, it’s dancing but sooooo much more! I’m doing my bachelors (for now…maybe in the future a masters, who knows?) in dance choreography. I’m studying the art of dance and everything from teaching, choreography, music, staging, etc. with subjects from practical and theory dancing lessons (classical ballet, folk dancing and soon contemporary dancing), practical and theory music lessons, anatomy, psychology, rhetoric, Russian history, art history, Russian language, French language, physical exercise to life safety and security lessons. Those are just the subjects for now. Second semester might be different, and I know every year some gets dropped and new ones get added, like economics.
Everything was and still in many ways are very overwhelming. Documents are still needed every now and then as paperwork gets done. Classes are changed on a daily basis, so you never really know which classes you will have until late the night before or even still the morning of. Lectures are every day and I have to get the notes from my class mates as I don’t always understand what was said or in many cases, the lecturer speaks to fast for me to make notes, especially if I don’t even know what he/she was saying. But I’m slowly starting to get the hang of it and with the help of my friends and some professors that will accommodate me and the mercy of our Heavenly Father, I will survive!
(Some of my classmates, but not all, and we have a total of 3 boys.)
Of course, I’m also missing my friends and family a lot. Especially on the weekends. Well after class that is. I have classes from Monday to Saturday, on average from 8:30 – 15:00. After class on a Saturday, I relax and breath for the rest of the day. Come Sunday and you will find me in a coffee shop rewriting notes, translating, doing homework and also already working on assignments. As soon as I have a fixed schedule, I’m sure I will be able to feel more organized, knowing when I have time to rewrite notes but also actually having time for studying and some off time as well. I think that’s also needed! AND OF COARSE TIME TO WRITE BLOG POSTS! (They might not be weekly updates, but as soon as I can, I’ll be writing posts of all the different categories now to be found on my website!)
But this is not just an update post, this is a Celebrating post! If you follow my social media, you will know that I have chosen a winner for the “Thank you” blog birthday give-away. This is just a little something all the way from Russia to say thank you for the support and love shown through my blogs. I appreciate everyone who’s a subscriber and follow along, reading my posts. As the website and Chanta-J family grows, so will the give-away opportunities.
And the subscriber who will shortly be receiving a Russian gift in their mailbox is……
Carien Hänert-van Dyk!!!
Congratulations!!!
I hope that you will appreciate the thank you, even though it’s not nearly enough! Please take a photo of you and the gift when you receive it and post it on social media. Tag me so I can see it all the way back in South Africa in the hands of a lovely and very special woman!
That will be it from me for today and I promise, as soon as I find my feet here again, there will be more posts on my website and social media!
Have a lovely week everyone!
To Live is To Dance
xoxo
