Feel The Beat

Sophie- Jazz

Monday 30th

I walk into dance 20 minutes early. I could come later but I love being early, I can talk to the other girls before class and watch people arrive. I looked at the time on my phone, it was 6:30 and still no one was here. It was still 20 minutes till class though. Just then my teacher walked up the stairs. 'Hey Sophie' she said to me. 'Hi' I said back quietly. I am actually quite shy, so when I don't know people very well I tend to be quite quiet. With ten minutes left, a few people from jazz last year start to arrive and my nervousness fades away. I hope there's not too many new people, I know it sounds mean but I liked our class last year. At 6:50 Hannah, our jazz teacher, takes us into studio 2. There is only one new person this lesson, which I am quite happy about. I know that my friend, Jade, from school is starting dance next week.

We start off with a warm up, then excersises from the corner, and then we learn a new floor and barre routine. Hannah tells us that our focouses this year are flexibility and turning. In the warm down, I try my splits but I push myself too far and pull my muscles in both of my legs. I keep dancing through the warm down though. Hannah asks us if we heard about the class change. Everyone looks very confused so obviously not. She gives us a notice to say that jazz has moved to Thursday at 7:40, which will be straight after contemporary! That's really annoying because then I'll have only one day of dance a week but two hours of it!

At the end of class because we have extra time, so we talk about what classes everyone is doing this year. Five of us are doing contemporary, including me, which is at 6:50 on a Thursday, also with Hannah. One other girl is also trying tap and hip hop. I am definitely doing jazz this year, and I'm also trying contemporary and lyrical, which is on a Tuesday, to see which one I like best. I know that my legs are going to be sore all week after this.