Carys Dickens

So the MORE form submission and the draft of our literature review and inquiry proposal deadline has now passed. Big sigh of relief! Couple of updates... I saw Rambert Dance Company perform Peaky Blinders last Saturday at the Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff and it was fantastic. I usually prefer traditional ballets and musicals to contemporary dance, but it was brilliant! The dancers were exceptional! Highly recommend! And I am now in America for Easter holidays, the first time I've sat down and felt relaxed in months! Maybe I will re-binge Peaky Blinders again. Now time to sign off and put the feet up before the finalising editing process happens. Happy Easter all! :)

This will be a short one because my main focus is on the draft deadline. Everything is almost there just a bit of editing (somehow I've become a waffler in my old age 😂) and adapting some of the MORE form attachments. I see why this module is the hardest! Can't wait for Monday to get the submission all done, dusted and sent off. Then on Tuesday evening I'm off to America for Easter holidays.  There will definitely be a massive sigh of relief when I sit down on the plane to Dallas.  I hope everyone's work is going ok! We've got this! :)

Still slowly ploughing through the Module 2 work. I've finished a rough version of the inquiry proposal (minus a Gantt Chart 😂) and just a few adaptations are needed to the MORE form and the 5 million attachments that go with it. Now for the literature review, I'm about a third of the way through word count-wise, trying to write a paragraph a day while work is crazy busy. My students are getting ready for Ballet exams. The day before our submission date, of course. Wonderful timing as always! This course has made me reflect more in my practice, and now I contemplate things I used to just accept as the norm. Because I grew up being a syllabus child taking exams in Ballet, Tap and Modern since I was tiny, it just seems normal and I kind of thrived on the nervous energy as I got older. But I wonder sometimes when the kids seem stressed and nervous about their exams, do the negatives outweigh the positives? Especially when some of them are so young. Or does the achievement help bo...

Feeling a bit bogged down with the MORE form and all the extra forms that go with it.  Every time we have submissions it always seems to coincide with a very busy work patch for me. with my student's exams and performances etc, so I'm trying to get ahead with my work now and get it completed asap. Hopefully, Module 3 will be easier because we will have a timetable set out in our inquiry, so I can spread the workload over the 12 weeks instead of having the bulk of it near submissions.  Trying to breathe, prioritise and time block at the moment! Here goes....