"Summer
Summer Intensives"
Summer activities for our family use to include finishing up baseball season, swim team, and visiting grandparents.
Then it was a day/week/two weeks of Ballet Summer Intensive, Scout summer camps, swim team, and visiting grandparents.
Two years ago, my son received a scholarship for a two week Summer Intensive; we spent two weeks driving just over two hours one way between the grandparents' house and the Summer Intensive.
As a result of the Summer Intensive's Performance date change, my annual summer meeting for my state women's club board was missed.
However, we did drive another hour and a half out of our way to say that we got an hour before sunset beach trip and a very nice Japanese dinner.
Last year, my son had three scholarships and one partial scholarship for Summer Intensives.
This meant nine weeks of six hours of ballet, dance, and stretching/fitness classes.
We started in our hometown for two weeks; followed by four weeks driving twenty minutes one way from his grandparents' home; dropping him off with strangers (now friends) for a week two hours away; and then hometown again for two more weeks.
Improvement was definitely noticed after both summers, but most noticeable after this last one.
My son now has friends all over the world, in this country, as well as, professional dance contacts for his future as a ballet professional.
A favorite part of my summer was meeting a former Soviet ballet dancer who studied under Pushkin at the Kirov Ballet.
He told stories of traveling between the former East and West Germany before they put up the Berlin Wall. (The history buff in me loved the stories.)
Best of all, he was able to point out small things to change in one's body that makes ballet easier; my son was able to comprehend about two weeks later (his learning curve for permanent changes) and I also use the techniques in both ballet and life.
So, nine weeks of traveling for Ballet Intensives and back and forth to my daughter's Girl Scout camp, did not leave any vacation time for the family.
[Pictures will be included at a later date]
Summer Intensives"
Summer activities for our family use to include finishing up baseball season, swim team, and visiting grandparents.
Then it was a day/week/two weeks of Ballet Summer Intensive, Scout summer camps, swim team, and visiting grandparents.
Two years ago, my son received a scholarship for a two week Summer Intensive; we spent two weeks driving just over two hours one way between the grandparents' house and the Summer Intensive.
As a result of the Summer Intensive's Performance date change, my annual summer meeting for my state women's club board was missed.
However, we did drive another hour and a half out of our way to say that we got an hour before sunset beach trip and a very nice Japanese dinner.
Last year, my son had three scholarships and one partial scholarship for Summer Intensives.
This meant nine weeks of six hours of ballet, dance, and stretching/fitness classes.
We started in our hometown for two weeks; followed by four weeks driving twenty minutes one way from his grandparents' home; dropping him off with strangers (now friends) for a week two hours away; and then hometown again for two more weeks.
Improvement was definitely noticed after both summers, but most noticeable after this last one.
My son now has friends all over the world, in this country, as well as, professional dance contacts for his future as a ballet professional.
A favorite part of my summer was meeting a former Soviet ballet dancer who studied under Pushkin at the Kirov Ballet.
He told stories of traveling between the former East and West Germany before they put up the Berlin Wall. (The history buff in me loved the stories.)
Best of all, he was able to point out small things to change in one's body that makes ballet easier; my son was able to comprehend about two weeks later (his learning curve for permanent changes) and I also use the techniques in both ballet and life.
So, nine weeks of traveling for Ballet Intensives and back and forth to my daughter's Girl Scout camp, did not leave any vacation time for the family.
[Pictures will be included at a later date]
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