Eh, hum.

These, my friends, are shoes. Ballroom dancing shoes. Because I am taking ballroom dancing classes.

I will pause now while you all recover from your choking/hyperventilating/hysterical, debilitating laughter.

Better now?

I just last week finished my first class in dancing, Salsa I. Next week I will start Salsa II. I know you all would pay a lot of money for video of this, so I will see what I can do, but I am hoping that it is not as awful as you might think! It’s been hard, yes, and made harder by my type-A-I-must-be-perfect-at-this personality, but it’s also lots of fun. Dave is an excellent teacher and he has been dancing for much longer. He is incredibly patient with me. If any of you are wanting to learn a dance I cannot really recommend starting with salsa, because it is hard, but I feel better having starting with something difficult. This gives me hope that the other dances will be a little easier.

Swing is Dave’s favorite dance and in my supremely limited experience it is the must fun as well, so I am especially excited to learn swing dancing one day. In the meantime, I SALSA! The classes have been interesting and what I am about to tell you just proves my point that I have no natural rhythm: It took me 4 weeks to understand the concept of beat. I was far too busy concentrating on my feet and hands and elbows to realize that it would all be a lot easier if I was following THE BEAT.

So you see. I am as surprised as you are about this whole thing. But then again, life has been surprising me left and right these few months so I am happy to add this to the list.