Good start to the week :)

It's a new week and I feel totally energized and ready to get all my work done. :) I've adjusted my study plan slightly to accommodate the timeline I'm on to do my GMAT exam in about 6 weeks so I'm going to be doing two topics from the Kaplan in one week. This way I can do my revision for the topics I'm comfortable with and then practice the ones I'm not so ok with. So far I'm right on track to finish week three on Wednesday and then start week 4 on Wednesday. So things are looking up once I stay focused :D

Over the weekend I FINALLY went out and did something fun. I went to watch NIFCA (National Independence Festival of Creative Arts) semi-finals on Sunday to support my (former) class. 

This year Louise entered 4 dances compared to 2 last year so I was really sad I wasn't up there dancing with them. The performances on a whole were really good. One guy Rafael Hinds played the drums and the keyboard and his performances were soooo entertaining. It was like having a window into 4 friends having a jam session. It was impossible to watch him play without having a smile on your face. Of course the highlights of the night were watching the 4 dances Louise Woodvine Dance Academy entered :). 

I found this picture on the Nation Newspaper website which is of the dance "Unleashed". The audience really seemed to like this dance a lot so I'm excited to see how far it will get in the competition.I really miss dancing with them and just dancing on a whole but right now my focus is New York and studying.

A couple people have been asking me what made me start a blog and why now. I've wanted to start a blog for a while simply because I love reading them but I never thought I had anything interesting to write about. I have always kept a journal so I liked documenting everything that happened but I don't really think anyone who doesn't know me would find it interesting. After I didn't get into Pace University for the fall I went Google looking for advice on what to do. What happens after your plans don't work. Surprisingly I didn't find much. There were plenty explaining how you could be feeling but nothing about what to do to reapply and work on yourself so that you won't get denied again. Obviously there are others out there who didn't get into the school of their choice but none of them shared their story so I decided that I would. It's not glamorous or a success story. I have no idea how all of this is going to turn out but I'm hopeful and I'm working hard for the result that I want.

Anyways, next weekend is my graduation from UWI (University of the West Indies) and I'm really excited. Mainly because Nick is coming home in 10 days but who's counting. My dress is pretty and I managed to get a hair appointment so that I don't have to wash it myself in the madness of the day. I'm going to Nick's graduation in the morning, then to my hair appointment and then to my graduation in the evening. A day full of graduations. All that would be missing is my mum :(. She'll be at a training course in Belgium which is really exciting but sad at the same time. 

Time to get back to studying (and reading Avow, which is a good book so far but the series is a bit drawn out into 3 books).

Carla :)