Having wanted to teach children ballet was one of my goals. Through this opportunity to initiate a Ballet club in our school, I was really privileged and a bit worried at the same time. Though I had assisted ballet in my Ballet School at Le Conservatoire De Danse De Ballet, I had never taught them ballet by myself through my own lessons. Hence, I was really nervous on the first day of ballet class on August 2014. Since I will be teaching the lower school kids from grade 1 to 5, I had to think of lessons that would fit the average level of their skills. A hard thing that I faced was having to match the beat of the song to the movement of the lesson planned. I didn't realize how the number of beats was important in relation with our movements. But after a while, I was able to manage it. In the beginning we had about seven students. Surprisingly and also unexpectedly, a boy also joined this club, it was Robert. I was surprised how flexible he was and how he got interested in learning to dance ballet. He actually has a lot of potentials. By teaching these children, I was able to strengthen my teaching skills and also being able to handle them.
After two to three more meetings, more students began to join this club. Now I had about 10 students. Though the kids began to go a bit wild, I was able to control them. It was at first very difficult for me to handle them because they were all so noisy and running all around. My voice is not that loud and so it took some time for me to get their attention. Overall, I really enjoyed teaching them. They were all so active and willingly wanting to learn more. Their enthusiasm made me proud and happy. As I struggled dealing my time management with academic studies and other extra-curricular activities, I was only able to do this club for the first semester. Many of the students wanted me to continue it for the second semester but since I was not confident with myself, my ballet teacher continued this to teach the children.
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