So, this is the update from the the first Talisman post. It was exactly three months after the very first practice, and I thought it was a perfect time to…
Aina has been wanting to be a ballerina since she was 1.5 year old… at 3.5 years old, she started going to ballet class at Cheng Ballet Academy. She is still going there a few times a week, and still wishing to be a ballerina when she grows up. This is her story in reverse chronological order.
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After more than one year of practicing and competing with Silver Fairy variation, Aina finally moved on and learned a new variation: Talisman! She was very happy to get this variation to…
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I personally think, The Nutcracker this year was the best end-of-year show by the Cheng Ballet Academy that I have ever watched. The production was pretty crazy: the never-ending snow-cutting…
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After I finished all the dolls I had to make, I brought it to meet with the rest of the dolls made by Naomi-san and Atsuko-san. We made in total…
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Last week, I was asked to help out making small wooden dolls for Cheng Ballet Academy‘s Nutcracker performance decoration. Of course I accepted the challange… I loooove doing things like…
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After I finished Aina’s first crocheted pointe shoe bag, I made a few other bags and pouches before starting to take orders, like the Hana’s and Miko’s bag. I made…
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Tokyo was under a typhoon-scare today. Yesterday, the weather forecast said that there would be heavy thunderstorms all day… We were kinda worried that we may have to cancel our…
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On the second day of our stay in Tokyo, the plan was to have Aina join one of Kumi sensei’s morning ballet classes. Kumi sensei is a family friend. Ari…
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This morning, we were much less stressed out than the first competition. We were more relaxed and less high strung. My make up for her went much better than last…
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Today was the first competition day: the Japan Ballet Competition 2017, in Fukuoka. We planned to leave the hotel at 9:30am, so we had to get up a bit earlier…
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Today, we decided to check out the studio. We didn’t get to see the studio at all yesterday, and the other moms who went yesterday said, the studio is located…
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We took the red-eye flight to Fukuoka tonight, which departed at 1:20 in the morning. Most of the Cheng Ballet students who were going to Japan for these ballet competitions…
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