Student Diary: An 18-year-old Dance student from Manchester

Age: 18

Course: HNC Dance

9am: I begin with a warm up and stretch in jazz before corner-work and learning choreography for the show. This is followed by a ballet lesson working on centre technique.

1pm: I sit with my friends to eat lunch and have a laugh. We talk about and work through what we need to remember for the next lessons (working through choreography for filmed assessment).

3pm: We have finished our assessment work and decided to all celebrate together by getting some cake! We are all very tired but desperate to keep going and learning choreography for our last lesson of the day finishing at 7. I'm proud of myself for how much I've pushed and improved myself today.

7pm: My friend and I travel home together on the Met and go back home. I spend my evening adding to my written work and resting my body to work hard tomorrow.