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Roland and I started dance class today. Broward County has a huge program for all sort of education of a community sort and we chose to take Tango and Waltz with Simon. I really enjoyed it! Of course we were just doing the easy stuff and it was pretty weird to dance with a bunch of men I don't even know, but overall very enjoyable. We tried to take a class back in Grand Rapids and it was pretty terrible. The woman was hard to understand (foreign accent in an echo chamber of a cafeteria) and tried to teach us a new dance every week. It was generally frustrating. This time we are only learning the basics to two dances with are related to one another at least a little. Today we focused on the tango and it was fun. Although I watched Ballroom Bootcamp, which was the tango this week, and I really didn't see the correlation between what they were doing on TV and what we learned today. I must not be 'seeing' what I should be.
It was very educational to dance with the other gents though. Of course it was pretty darn easy to dance with the instructor :) and very nice to dance with Roland ;) Most of the men weren't comfortable dancing as close to me as they should have and that made things interesting/harder. Also a lot of them were very droopy, no posture or anything that remotely resembling a frame. Roland has good posture, but is a little tall for me to lock elbows with, so I think I will need to wear heels to dance with him. The instructor was relatively short and most of the other guys were only somewhat taller than I am which was easier to dance with than Roland (as I was not in heels). Height aside, the best guys to dance with were they ones who had good posture and actually held me to them in dance position. It was so much easier to feel what they wanted me to do dancewise. I guess it's the same as a lot of things in life, even if you don't have confidence in what you are doing...fake it.
After that we stopped by a couple dive shops. I wasn't terribly impressed, one was okay, but the second was downright terrible. This evening I posted to ScubaBoard to see if they could help me. I guess we were spoiled at the West Michigan Dive Center. Hopefully someone will be able to point me to a place that will be willing to demo equipment and be more interested in getting me in the best equipment for me (and hence keep me diving and coming back to buy more stuff from them) than in pushing this or that item.
*I'm going to sign off now, my writing this evening feels very disjointed and generally not so great, I apologize if it doesn't read well either.*
UPDATE:
If you read Roland's Blog, you can clearly see that he is a better writer and much funnier than I am, but you should know that the instructor used me as a partner due to sheer proximity (we happened to be the couple standing right next to him).
It was very educational to dance with the other gents though. Of course it was pretty darn easy to dance with the instructor :) and very nice to dance with Roland ;) Most of the men weren't comfortable dancing as close to me as they should have and that made things interesting/harder. Also a lot of them were very droopy, no posture or anything that remotely resembling a frame. Roland has good posture, but is a little tall for me to lock elbows with, so I think I will need to wear heels to dance with him. The instructor was relatively short and most of the other guys were only somewhat taller than I am which was easier to dance with than Roland (as I was not in heels). Height aside, the best guys to dance with were they ones who had good posture and actually held me to them in dance position. It was so much easier to feel what they wanted me to do dancewise. I guess it's the same as a lot of things in life, even if you don't have confidence in what you are doing...fake it.
After that we stopped by a couple dive shops. I wasn't terribly impressed, one was okay, but the second was downright terrible. This evening I posted to ScubaBoard to see if they could help me. I guess we were spoiled at the West Michigan Dive Center. Hopefully someone will be able to point me to a place that will be willing to demo equipment and be more interested in getting me in the best equipment for me (and hence keep me diving and coming back to buy more stuff from them) than in pushing this or that item.
*I'm going to sign off now, my writing this evening feels very disjointed and generally not so great, I apologize if it doesn't read well either.*
UPDATE:
If you read Roland's Blog, you can clearly see that he is a better writer and much funnier than I am, but you should know that the instructor used me as a partner due to sheer proximity (we happened to be the couple standing right next to him).
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