Spring is Here!

Well, after a long time without writing I figured I had better get you all updated. :)

These past few weeks have been crazy. We have bought a house though! It is in a nice area and it's close to town. We can move in four weeks!

The snow here has all melted and it is warming up. It has been beautiful lately! I went for a hike today with two friends from my dance. It was gorgeous. I had no idea that the lake was so big. It's mind-blowing! I couldn't capture it in pictures but I did my best. Here are a few...

I couldn't capture the lake very well, it was way too big! But I got some of it!

That's all for now!

Time flies….

Well hello again! I must say I am very sorry for not being more regular with my updates… I have been so busy lately! Thankfully I'm getting used to my schedule and I take advantage of my spare time.
Today is a milestone for me. This afternoon from 4-5, I will be teaching a ballet class on my own for the first time! I am thrilled with the opportunity.

I can't believe that it's already the 18th of February. Where does the time go? We just found out that the people who own our rental home will be coming back April 17th. Mom and Papa have been looking at quite a few homes to buy and will look at more this week. We have to find something by the end of the month, otherwise we will have to rent again.

Sofi has started an archery class and Lucy is dancing two days per week. Over all we are all enjoying life here in Kelowna. It rained yesterday but… IT STOPPED. As we from Sooke/Victoria know, it can rain for weeks at a time without stopping… well here it has only rained twice since we have been here and at the most, overnight-2PM. INCREDIBLE!

Well, That's all for now. But, I do have a few pictures. We had a large dump of snow last weekend….

 There's a large pond really close to our house that froze over. People were skating on it and playing hockey for a few days!

 This is our street… Manhattan Drive. It was rather white… :)

 This is the path that I take on every nice day when I walk to the dance studio…

 You can see the large flakes in the air!

And this year I re-made my Mocha-Mousse cake for Valentine's day (Feb. 8, we celebrated earlier) . Unfortunately, It didn't turn out the way it did two years ago ------>

But it tasted wonderful and was a hit with our friends who came for the weekend. :)

New Semester, Snow, Bacon, and Horses

Yes, I know, it's a weird title. I'm feeling a little more creative, but less creative at the same time…


So we have had some snow falling the last two weeks. It's gorgeous, especially on a nice day!

 This is in the marsh about a 5 minute walk from where we life

Last weekend, we went down to Langley as a family. Papa had to smoke some bacon with a  friend so we made it into a trip. The bacon was AMAZING…. 

While we were visiting, Lucy got her first try at horseback riding! She loved it!!! 

Well, I would write more but I have to dash and get ready for another evening at dance… :D It's wonderful… I'm really loving it, but it's a lot! With all the school I'm doing I'm only getting about 30 minutes of free time every day… But dance is relaxing enough to count for more free time :D 

Wow! Another week over!

Wow, can you believe it's almost the end of January? Where has this month gone?

We have pretty much settled into a routine. For me, it's school in the morning until mid afternoon… then I'm off to dance. My teacher has just added some more hours to my dancing. I'm helping out with more classes, (we have huge classes) and soon I'll be taking over a 3-5 year old class! Last night I was part of a flamenco performance, it was fantastic. But I couldn't have done it without the great group of girls I dance with. I am so thankful for the way they accepted me into their group! It's fantastic!

Today, I have some pictures!!!!

 Lucy has taken a liking to dressing up in my clothes… one day she came waltzing in saying she was from 1922, the next day she was an American Indian… then in the above picture she wanted to be from 1986. :D Yesterday she came downstairs while I was doing my schoolwork wearing one of my dresses… she came up to me and said "I'm a virtuoso."

 We have a trampoline in our backyard! Lucy's on it every day!

 Yes, I've been taking a lot of pictures of Lucy… here she was having an interesting school day…

Math wasn't working out...

 Right answer??? NO!

 She gave mom quite a headache...

And below is the picture tour of our house. :) 

 Mom and Papa's room

 Sofi and Lucy's Room

 My room

 The bathroom.. Lucy was so excited that it is purple!

 A nice large kitchen!

 Dining room

 Christened the cold room… it's a second living room that is freezing cold.

 The Living room

And, our back yard! Yes, that's the lake, right there! The other side of the lake is West Kelowna

Well, that's all for now, I'm off to read from my rather large stack of library books… I've been getting carried away with the amazing selection… :D

A Recap of the First Week

Greetings! 

So, our first week here was quite interesting. We have thrown ourselves back into the school routine. It has been a challenge to get up early enough to get our morning duties done without having to miss things out. I feel that I've been productive this week in my school, I did well in a Biology test and finished an essay for English. 

I'm exhausted from my first full week of dance. It was great, but I've never done so much in one week before! I'm already getting my new pair of pointe shoes ready to go… they are much more comfortable than my current ones. 

Papa has been travelling this week, collecting some boxes from storage on the Island and butchering pigs on the Mainland. He comes back tomorrow! 

Well, I have to finish some sewing, read some new library books :) and choreograph a dance for my Dance course… 

I shall keep up my blogging and soon I shall post pictures of our current home!

A Dance Update

So this update is mainly for my dance teachers and those who care about my dancing... just to let you know!

So, I met with Tanya Bakala from Mission Dance Centre. The meeting went REALLY well, I was really impressed with her studio and the way she teaches. I tried a class two days later and I really liked it, it was taught by a dancer from Ballet Kelowna. Mom and Dad and I met with Tanya officially and we discussed more in depth. It was really great. I shall be dancing there! I will be dancing Monday-Thursday and helping teach on Fridays. (Mrs. H - thanks to you, she's really impressed with my teaching abilities and I'll most likely be getting my own classes starting September) Mondays, I'm taking a pointe class, a flamenco class and Tanya's teacher training class. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are the Junior Company classes. That mostly involves ballet... we are learning the 4 cygnets variation from Swan Lake (We are learning it on pointe too!) for the May performance :D It's so much fun!!! We also do hip hop... uuugh, that's new... and Contemporary and Jazz too. Fridays I help teach a 3 and 4 year old's class. It's quite entertaining! There's just one thing that's a bit weird... Mr. Beales, Tanya uses the SAME CD that you used for a long time... it's the one with a Schubert song for the tendus in Centre...
But otherwise, it's wonderful. I'm really enjoying it there... She's in a beautiful building, the Rotary Centre of the Arts, it's a great location! Only a 10 minute walk from our home!

Well, that's all for now... I shall be blogging (hopefully) weekly, to give you all a glimpse into our new life here.

Update!

Hello once again! It has been a while since I've been blogging and I'm finally able to sit down and tell you all about our last month.

We had a lovely Christmas time, we stayed with friends on the island for two weeks. We spent our time visiting friends and family. On the 31st we made our way to the mainland to spend New Year's with our Russian friends. We ate, played games, ate more, played more games, ate more, played more games…. and stayed up until 2 AM. It was great!!!

On the second we headed up to our new home, the Okanagan valley. We stayed in Enderby with an aunt of a friend. We had hoped to find a home in three days, it didn't turn out to be the real plan. We soon found out that because I'll be dancing in Kelowna, we needed to live close to there. So we started looking in Kelowna/Winfield area and found two options. The next day we signed the contract. It is a great place, 3 bedrooms (I GET MY OWN ROOM) a nice kitchen and a lovely living room. The backyard is the beach and the lake is right there.

So, that's all for now... Busy weeks ahead!