Sweet Ballet!

Ballet! I see it like a sequence of moviments where you have to control your body using your mind, in accordance with the rhythm of the music. Agreed?! I don't know about you, but when it comes to me it sounds just amazing! 
I dare to say ballet is the hardest kind of dance! That's because I've danced ballet for about 10 years. All these years made me get that Ballet requires you a lot of technique and control of mind. Technique because ballet is very classical and it has specific features, for example point work, turn-out of legs, precise movements and flowing. And control of mind because everything you do with your body you take the responsability for it, then when you don't succeed, or you think you aren't good enough, you blame yourself! That's why ballet is technique, but it's also mind control.
In my opinion, classical ballet is nothing but beautiful! It's nothing but so amazing! To be a ballerina is very hard and you gotta be born with the special technique! Few people have the knack of working hard, giving your heart and soul, and at the same time flowing on a stage, doing what you like (in pain).
When I watch performances of ballet, it really touches me, because seeing a baillarina flowing on the stage, like a flower flying in the wind is beautifully amazing! Seeing a baillarina dancing free while she hides her pain is beautiful. Ballet is pain, but beautiful.
I think this kind of dance gathers two extrems, both lightness and pain! It's painful because you gotta use point, several hours a day, and sometimes your feet might end hurt. That hurt wasn't so much, but was enough to realize how worth was that pain.
That's why to be a ballerina is to few people. It's for those ones who never give up and really love dancing! 

Here comes a video of both ballet dancers, Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg, performing Pas De Deux of Voices of Spring! Watch it! It's worth it!

Zoo!

I went to San Francisco Zoo last week.
Some things really blew me away. One of them is the special area called Family Farm, where you can get in there and feed relatively small animals! That really amazed me, because I had never seen anything similar before. For the first time in my life I saw a bear! That might sound crazy or uncommon, but that really was my first time seeing bears in zoo.
I think that's a really nice place to spend the day, specially for kids.

Wanna check my photos?

Have you been there?

Ice Skating!

Hey!
Have you gone to ice skating before?!

In Union Square and near Ferry Building there have had ice skating! I personally have never done that, however I'm so excited to do so.

The pics above are about the prices and sessions of Union Square, but I believe that in Embarcadero the hours and price must be the same.

It's open daily and it's gonna work until January 21st, 2013. So, you have time to enjoy it!!! After a rainy weekend, I think it's fair to relax by going to ice skating ;)

Feel free to write suggestions you have. I'll be glad to read it!

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Legion on Honor!

Hi!

I have been to Legion of Honor and it's such a beautiful and amazingly incredible place!! There are beautiful paintings in realistic style. There were a couple of paintings, that were so realistic, that I felt like that images were real. There are many sculptures too, but I am not a big fan of them.

What I most liked is definitely the amazing pairings and the big rooms where they were.

I truly recommend you go there!! It's so worth it; and even if you aren't a big fan of museums, I think you should go.

Here are some pics!!

If I could choose only one museum to go again, I'd choose Legion of Honor surely. I love so much that place!

Book!

I just read a book called "100 Quotations to Make You Think!" written by Wolfgang Riebe. It's a book about quotations and yes, there are truly 100 quotations on it. I underlined some good ones, such as:

"43) I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with. It kind of brings you back down to earth again."

"48) I've learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it."

"58)Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back."

"65) Time goes by so fast: people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell there people how much they mean to you."

"84) Bad habits are like a comfortable bed; they are easy to get into, but hard to get out of."

"86) Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted."

"100) If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you either. Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. If you worry you die, if you don't worry you die, so why worry?"

Like it?! There are many others as good as these above. I'm sure you'll like other ones too! The reading is pretty easy and it doesn't take so long to read it all. I like this kind of books, because these short sentences make my brain think and think for a long time. Besides, it's kind of inspiring, isn't it!?

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Free Monthly Museums Day!

Free Museums on Tuesday 12/04/2012:

• SF Museum of Modern Art (MOMA):

Where: 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
What time: 11am - 5:45pm
Exhibition: Modern art including paintings, sculpture, photography, design, architecture and like so on.
Map: http://goo.gl/maps/Fq15q

• Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA):

Where: 701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

What time: 12pm - 8pm

Exhibition: focused on contemporary and emerging artists, performances, film/video and community engagement programs.

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/oZiJQ

• Contemporary Jewish Museum

Where: 736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

What time: 11am - 5pm

Exhibition: audiences and programs that explore the Jewish culture, history art and ideas. 

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/4AiJ9

• Conservatory of Flowers

Where: 100 John F Kennedy Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118-4504 (at Golden Gate Park)

What time: 10am - 4:30pm (last entry at 4pm)

Exhibition: there are over 1,700 species of rare, exotic and endangered plants from different countries.

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/PBTp8

Other post about it: here

• de Young Museum

Where: 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA

What time: 9:30am - 5:15pm

Exhibition: collections of American art from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Besides, art from Africa and the Pacific. 

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/3NKFd

• Legion of Honor

Where: 100 34th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94121

What time: 9:30am - 5pm

Exhibition: displays of collections of 4,000 years ago of ancient and European art.

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/Ni1tu

Map with all locations is right here! 

Hope it's useful! Hope you have fun today! :)

Conservatory of Flowers!

Every first tuesday the Conservatory of Flowers, as other museums, get free! So, it's like you can get in there for free! Generally, each museum has a specific day. Anyway, I went there on last tuesday and liked so much! It's fresh inside because of the plants. There are many kinds of them, as you can notice looking at the pictures. It's very silent, too!

It's located at the Golden Gate Park! Map here ! I recommend that you  go there at least one time! I think you'll not regret it!

Have you ever been there before?!

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Asian Art Museum - Pictures!!!

Heey! I went to the Asian Art Museum on the last sunday! Here are some pics! I took about 100 pics, but here are just a couple of them! It's hard to choose my favorite, because they are all amazing! Follow me @sanfranotes !

Meditation!

Hey! It's time to chill out, don't you think?! 

My week has been so stressful, busy, agitated and things like that. I think yours must be a little bit like this, because of the elections and others events that have been happening. So, what I want to recommend you is Meditation! I have never really meditated, but I do like the idea that you can relax just by controlling your breath! It sounds good, doesn't it!? 

I have found a Free Meditation in Marina! It's in Fort Mason Center, starting today until Nov11th. On weekdays it's at 6pm - 10pm and weekend at 10am - 3pm. For more information: bit.ly/yessfba and http://us.yesplus.org/

"Each individual possesses the ability to calm the mind, relax the body and energize the entire system within minutes. The secret lies in the breath."

If you have been stressed, anxious or just want to relax I recommend you try that out! It's free and relaxing! 

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Hey! Free Museums!

Today is the first sunday of this month, and the Asian Art Museum is free! Almost every museum in SF has a day that they get free. Some of them get free on the first saturday of each month, others on the first wednesday and like so on. Here is a list of the day that each museum gets free: http://sf.funcheap.com/city-guide/monthly-free-museum-days/ !

I have been in California Academy of Sciences once, and that was very interesting because the museum offers different kinds of exposed materials. However, I had to wait like three hours in line to get in there. So, if you wanna go, I recommend that you get there early! That museum, specifically, is one of the hardest to visit, because it only gets free four times a year! Then, if you get the change, enjoy!

Have you been to any museum on free days?! Tell me, if so.
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Check the link above and enjoy the free days! :)