Ballet Nacional de Cuba

Last night, I had to go to watch a ballet with Mum, Nana and Nana's mate Andrea. I used to like ballet when I was about eight, because the costumes were cool, but I don't any more. Still, I had to go.
Nana was all hyped up because she thought Carlos Acosta would be there, and she even had a little Cuban flag in her bag to wave - which she did whenever a dance was finished, cheering like she was at a concert.
I can't remember her name, could have been Saidis or something, but she was the main dancer for that evening. I don't think she was on top form though that evening, because she nearly tripped over her partners' feet from not looking where she was going, struggled to lift her legs up and was shaky when doing some of the moves. At one point she actually fell over. To be fair to her though, she just jumped back up and carried on going.
After the ballet had finished, Nana made us stay for this Q&A session with Alicia something-or-other, the famous woman who created the Cuban Ballet School thing. We were told beforehand that since English wasn't her first language, to keep the questions simple. The first question asked was so confusing that I couldn't understand it, and she said it in English! A woman a few rows back stood up and said translated it in fluent Spanish and then told us that she'd only asked if Fidel Castro had helped the school during the Cuban Revolution. She understood fine then. Some weirdo asked if there were any black women in the company, and Alicia just said 'I don't count them. I'm only bothered if they can dance or not.' which shut him up. Then a girl at the front asked if Alicia had any advice for new dancers, and the interviewer person (who made no effort to simplify the questions for Alicia) cut her off and started going on about how it was a stupid question. This woman who was on the stage with Alicia was a bit up herself anyway, because she kept cutting everyone off when they tried to speak, and couldn't even say Fidel - she called him Feedle, with that expression that people have when they think they've just pronounced a difficult word right.

School today was alright. We did some GCSEs a while ago - they only count for 12.5% of our full science GCSE grade - and got the results back. I got an A in Biology, and a B in Chemistry and Physics. Just have to hope I don't fail the other 18 tests we have to get the full score.