Do you take a puzzlebook on a long bus journey?I like to, saving my phone battery for needs, I carry a book of puzzles, and a pen. I can enjoy the scenery and exercise my brain at the same time!
Just in case you were wondering.....The Internet is widely available in Ecuador, with several service providers offering a variety of plans and prices. The main providers include TV Cable, CNT, PuntoNet, Claro, and Movistar. Fixed broadband has 825,732 subscribers, while mobile... See More »
Does being a lone child prove confusing as you grow up?I am one of four, and I have no confusions over who I am. I'm not a boy locked up in a girl's body, nor am I a condor waiting to fly, I am pleased to be a young woman exploring the world, I don't consult the tarot or astrologers for what the future... See More »
Shall I compare thee to a dove...? Ever been told you are someone else here?I was just accosted with this premise, I know the place is called "Similar Worlds" but this was a new one!
How much work has to be done in Ecuador for the sake of 'true freedom'?Ecuador's political parties have historically been small, loose organizations that depended more on populist, often charismatic, leaders to retain support than on programs or ideology. Frequent internal splits have produced extreme factionalism.... See More »
The group I work, create and dance with and for is rather much a collective, in the old 'Soviet-style'There isn't a president of the Presidium, because there isn't a Presidium, none of that kind of baggage is included. We each have a vote about matters, and where there's impasse there is a debate and discussion. We gradually iron out our perceived... See More »
We will never have a 'dictatorship of the proletariat', do you agree?Too many people want their own 'elite' of some kind, a workers' republic is impossible!
Having a day off mid-week is a lovely thing, do you agree?I got up later than usual, snuggling under my duvet, and I had a shower, attended to some 'follicular activity', and I'm not wearing dancewear today! Admittedly I have to go to the laundry this afternoon and put my soiled clothes through the wash,... See More »
The centuries wherein we had the great composers were far more interesting for popular music than the seventy years since WW2, do you agree?
Do you wish someone would come along and revolutionise popular music, so we can escape the overused four four with a snare counting time?
Is it acceptable for politicians to try and control what is said about them, for their previous lives?We have so many examples, in India/Pakistan, Modi and Khan; in Russia, Putin; in Australia, the prime minister; in England, Starmer and Reeves..... They get indignant when they are found out, but are vociferous about others when they are holding... See More »
We are having a rehearsal class this evening for our performance next weekI’m not sure how long it will be as we are looking at which ballets we have in our repertoire that we can take excerpts from to present to an audience. We have to develop a following and build our performance budget so that we can stage one or more o... See More »
Religion in EcuadorI have been talking about this to a couple of people: When it comes to religion, the Ecuadorian society is relatively homogeneous, with Christianity being the primary religion. Catholicism is the main Christian denomination in the country. There are... See More »
Our work ethic is broad.We have the dance school which is developing. We also have involvement in theatre technology, sound, physiotherapy, photographic modelling, stagecraft, costuming, and we are exploring the concept of dance clothing supplies.
Our classes have a mixed format.Early morning class is sixty minutes long. Seniors classes tend to be eighty minutes long, sometimes we get people leaving part way through. Pointe classes are on average one hundred minutes long.
We have been happy to welcome a new classWe thought that the majority of our students are in the +55 age bracket, we have pointe classes that are attended by 15 to 30 year olds, but we thought we need to welcome 30 to 55 years old students. Since they make up a majority of the workforce we... See More »
How many leotards does a dancer have?Bearing in mind that it is the standard next to skin body wear for most dancers 👯♀
This is true of me, I am an Andean, a mountain womanI’m not going to be who you expect me to be, I am quite wild and I have an affinity with my own forebears, who were Inca. I am not a pagan but I do have rather not quite Catholic outlooks and attitudes. I am a Christian free thinking maiden who has... See More »
I like Tuesdays as I have an adult pointe class in the afternoonI only have three students who are in this class, adults who have an interest in modern ballet en pointe. We have a good time with it, warming up en pointe and centre adagio en pointe and then centre allegro en pointe. It is enthusiastically... See More » (5)