First Post

Hi All,

Well I’m so sorry to be joining this so late! I tried uploading my first blog over a week ago but for some reasons it was coming up as squares and not letters so I figured I would try again later, foolish mistake as I have only just got the internet back!

So I’m Eloise, I trained at the Hammond along with a few others on the course! I graduated in July 2010 with a National Diploma in Professional Dance. I then moved back home to Kent, a big shock to the system, I found adapting back to the quiet Kentish village life quite hard! I was very lucky though as when I was back home I was working as a freelance teacher teaching 5 days a week at 3 different schools. I absolutely loved it! I had always had the train of thought, like many in their training, that I might teach later on when I’m older but not fussed about it now. How wrong I was!

Although I loved my job in Kent I was aware that I was only 20 and there is a big world out there so I started looking into what else I could do. Then I found the perfect course for me, it’s the Post-graduate diploma in Community Dance at Laban. I auditioned for the course and got accepted but my place has been deferred for a year as I was already enrolled on this course.

After my auditions and knowing what I was doing for the next few years I saw a job advertised for a dance teacher in Dubai. I applied thinking I might as well and got the job! So a month ago I moved out to Dubai and it has been a very crazy month! It is very different out here, lots of rules. It is illegal to run out of petrol out here, but at the equivalent of 30p a litre I suppose there’s no excuse! So Dubai’s awful internet is why I haven’t been able to post anything yet but I now have internet again after 10 long days!

I’ll be on tomorrow to post task 1A but I just wanted to say hello and get something posted as soon as possible.