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Dongdaemun Fabric Market: Korea
The fabric market: located at Dongdaemun is the building right behind the Marriott hotel, its not very difficult to find, just take exit 2 and walk straight ahead, no need to cross the street unless you’re on the other side of Marriott and enjoy shopping. Fabric selections include, cotton, wool, twill, laces and the top […]
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Ballet Stores in Korea
Finally finished this blog and vlog for korea, i think for address references its much easier to do a BLOG compared to a VLOG but the vlog will give you more of an idea of how the area looks like and how difficult it was to find these locations. Here were the stores we visited […]
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Dancer of the Month: Natascha Mair
Natascha Mair (Currently the Principal Dancer of Vienna State Opera) started ballet in a small school in Vienna when she was just 5 years old. At the age of 7 she started at the Vienna State Opera Ballet School, where she got her Diploma by the age of 17. She Immediately then joined the company […]
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Bloch Store: Amsterdam
Before coming to Amsterdam, I contacted a few friends to ask about the ballet stores I could visit in Amsterdam and they mentioned only 2 and one being the Bloch store. I skipped the other one and decided to come here instead, as the girls mentioned that this store had more things that I would […]
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Meet Mika: Feature of the Month for Dance by Lina dance wear
MIKAELA LAURYN SANTOS, from the Philippines, began her ballet training at the age of age 4 with the Effie Nañas School of Classical Ballet, during which she attended intensives in Korea, China, and USA. In 2014, she was awarded second place at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Ballet Competition. In 2016, she was among the top […]
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First time in Inverness: What to expect and Place to Stay
Oh my, Hello Inverness! I’ll be honest, the reason or the real reason why my friend Mari and I had an interest in Scotland all of a sudden was because of the TV show Outlander, which we loved so much a year or two ago. We were obessed with the Battle of Culloden and the […]
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My time at the Vienna State Opera Ballet, Inside and Backstage
I can’t begin to describe the feeling it was to be back at another beautiful theatre in the same year that I visited the Mariinsky Theatre in Russia and the Paris Opera Ballet in France. Once again I was somewhere I could call home, another place I could feel at home together with strangers and […]
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Amanpulo: Palawan, Philippines. My break into paradise? Was it worth it?
If you’re all lazy to read. Here is a video of our trip to Amanpulo. Ever since my dad mentioned it, I’ve been dreaming all my life to visit this island. When I was much younger and we were less endowed with the best things in life, we used to come to Palawan and visit the more […]
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Christmas in Salzburg
Here’s a short vlog above (If you’re too lazy to read, but the blog has more input) and this blog about my experience in Salzburg on Christmas. Oh boy do I have a lot of things to talk about Salzburg. First off, this is and was my first time in Austria. I really had so […]
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Inside the Paris Opera Ballet: The Oldest National Ballet
The Paris Opera Ballet was breathtaking and if you watched the video I posted on YouTube which is below the tips section, you could see the different Marbles and the structure of the place was really just amazing. Every room feels like a dream and every stairway was so picturesque. If I ever got […]
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