My first day of ice skating! i did everything from skate forward, skate backwards (hard), forward crossovers, backward crossovers (really hard), and feeble attempts at a spin and a jump (it's hard to get off the ice ^^). my teacher's so nice - he gave us two hours today. it's nice b/c the rink is close - we can walk there from our place, even though it is outside. i was SO happy that all the little kids went home before I started my lesson - it would have been embarrassing to have them watch me. And I only fell like three times! ;) Ah, note the lovely matching colors - from my blue gloves to my beige scarf. ah well, it was freezing cold today; puddles were frozen on the way to the rink. 


Oh! And we saw Phantom of the Opera, the movie... it's out in Korea, not sure when it's out in the states. I went in expecting the worst - people were lamblasting it on the broadway websites. The singing was pretty bad (I think Michael Crawford, despite his age, still would have been a much better pick for the Phantom - he has to be the angel of music! He has to sing meltingly well) and, eek, I hated the fact that Minnie Driver was dubbed. There are so many great Carlottas on broadway, it would have been so easy to pick one of them to do it. Raoul also should have been more classically trained. The best thing about it was the best parts of the musical - the orchestration, and the music (everything but the singing). On top of that, the imagery was beautiful. The sets, and, for instance, Emmy Rossum LOOKED like a Christine more than anything else about her performance. In all though, it was a good movie minus the singing - they really tried to show more the Phantom's side of the story, which is an interesting and heartbreaking twist.

ah another busy day done. still having some trouble adjusting to the time. should head to bed soon.