dum de dum dum DUM!!!

I am going to be an instructor at BYU this fall. eek! I was hired today to teach an intro ballet class. How cool is that???? I, Alishka Babushka, get to give out grades and stuff. wow. scary. cool. awesome. :-)

oh Monday!

today is monday. It's the last monday of summer term. My last monday of being a full-time student. YAY!!!!!!!!!

Tib picked a fun subject for My Favorite Monday! Today's subject is favorite Olympic Sport.

I love watching the Olympics, both the summer and winter games. So, my two favorite (one Winter, one Summer) Olympic sports are as follows:

Winter Games: Figure Skating. Hands down. I LOVE it. All aspects of Figure Skating just take my breath away. If I wasn't a ballerina, I would so be a Figure Ice Skater.


For the Summer Games, I love Gymnastics. I think gymnasts are amazing. The strength and control that they have when performing is incredible to me. Wowzers.

Loving the Weekend

So far I am loving my weekend! On Friday I cut my hair, chopping off an inch and a half or so and adding in side swoopy bangs. Then I had the opportunity to watch the opening ceremonies for the 2008 Olympics. They were freaking AMAZING! If you haven't had a chance to see them, definitely take a look at them on NBC. They rock.

Friday evening I was able to surprise Swing Kid with both my haircut (which he loved) and a happy kit to cheer him up. (it had been a hard week...).

Saturday I got to go to payson early, early in the morning and teach ballet for a dance workshop. That was a ton of fun and I am excited to do it again in a couple of weeks. Then it was off to my house to do laundry and take a nap. :) Sister D and I came up to Cougar Town and went to see Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. It was a cute little movie and I really enjoyed watching it. From there we went to my apartment and hung out at the Olympic party that was at my place. Swing Kid stopped by and said hi. :)

Today Sister D went back home with my parents and I am getting ready to go to church. It's been a great weekend and I'm looking forward to enjoy this beautiful Sabbath day. :)

Fun Friday!

It's finally FRIDAY!!! you know what that means don't you? it's Friday Fill-In time!!!

1. You know you're old when students you taught when they were 5 years old are now dating and are in high school.

2. My heart is divided between chocolate covered cinnamon bears and peaches.

3. The desire to eat real food is what I need RIGHT NOW!

4. I have felt the sting of regret, I have known the depths of real friendships.

5. Gah, won't these people break into song for me?

6. Read Breaking Dawn as soon as you can!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to surprising Swing Kid, tomorrow my plans include teaching a workshop and hanging out with my littlest sister and Sunday, I want to enjoy my last Sunday with these roommates!

Things that make me smile

I have been very list oriented as of late. I think it comes with the fact that I am near the end of the term and I'm making lists of everything I have to do before the term ends and my family moves away. So here you go. Another list!

• dancing in the moonlight in the middle of the street
• walking hand in hand to nowhere in particular
• the thought of finishing summer term
• fun songs on my computer
• the fact that i get to teach dance for a workshop and get to use my creative juices to do a short lyrical combination/dance on the students
• seeing other people around me happy
• chocolate kisses
• kisses in the rain
• mild summer nights
• dollar movies
• getting paid to do random tasks
• the color green
• running barefoot through the grass
• singing Phantom of the Opera even though I don't sing it so well...
• playing the piano
• lunch with my roommates
• raspberry vinaigrette dressing from Brick Oven. YUM!
• chocolate covered cinnamon bears
• lemon water
• cooking dinner

and many, many other things. This list could go on forever, but I think I'll leave it at that. Ciao!!