It's April 3rd...Fourth month of the year...where am I with my NY goals?

The reason I said I would do monthly updates on my NY goals and didn't is because well as you know I've been busy but that's not even why, because it's not that hard for me to sit down and write a blog post, even amidst a semester as crazy as this one.

The reason is because I felt like I wasn't making much progress at all, because I was so focused on school. Read: Second semester and My mental health second semester at university to learn more.

But since it is the fourth month of the year, and I've changed my mindset to just updating and being real, even if I do feel like I haven't made much progress, so I'm going to do this.

Let's review my NY goals. They were:

1. I did finish that book. We already talked about this. I have read a lot more in Russian, I started a book about Orthodoxy, but have been slacking on that, though for good reason. Because of my russian literature class, I've read probably like 50 combination of short stories/novellas, so I'm constantly reading in russian; russian literature.

2. I don't like practicing at university unfortunately. I don't like practicing in the room that we have with a piano because I don't like practicing in front of people. And I didn't have time to even think about practicing over spring break, sadly.

3. With the craziness of the semester, I haven't been going to ballet as much. But I don't regret it. Each time I had my reasons, whether it was to hangout with a friend instead, spring break, or for example tomorrow, it isn't even class but some trying out ballet for beginners thing, where they're just going to watch ballet (I've done that plenty, and been in them plenty too, with all of my experience) and eat snacks, so that's just not what I'm looking for. If it's a class I would go. However I have slacked on stretching, but it is because of the inconsistency lately.

I will continue to check back in as the year goes on.

-Masha