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amorousodiousWell, I made it through clases on Wednesday, and even though I felt like going straight home after, I stuck around because there was a weekly activity called Danzas del Mundo. Heather and Amanda had gone the week before and told me that it was really fun so I thought I would check it out.
Our instructor is named Nacho, (that's a completely legitimate Spanish name in case you're wondering) and he started off the class by telling us to sit down and close our eyes and dance only with our arms. The reason our eyes were closed was so that we didn't feel silly. After that we got up and had to dance only with our feet, which was a little more difficult since we didn't have that great of balance. Finally we could dance however we wanted, and it was awesome because everyone actually got into it and moved around the room and jumped and wasn't worried about how they looked or who was watching. I loved the music that he was playing, at first we listened to African music, then he switched it up going from techno to classical to rock, and encouraged us to change our dance style as each song played.
When we were done with that warm-up we started off with a greek dance in which we're all in a circle holding hands, except that the circle is left open. The opening is there because of the myth of the Labyrinth, so that there's always a way out. Interesting to learn that. The dance was pretty simple, and it was fun because we got to yell "hey" at some points too. The second dance, a Swiss dance was MUCH harder. It involved high fives, changing partners, spinning and all that sort of stuff. It was hilarious because when we were done Nacho told us that it was a disaster. At least we had fun right?
They reviewed the French wedding dance that they had done the week before, and it wasn't too hard to catch on to. It was basically a line dance, but the spinning threw a few people off. We were all nice and sweaty when the class was over, but it was refreshing.
We had spaghetti with sauce for la cena when we got home. The sauce was really interesting, it was made with ground chicken, which is something I've never come across in the US, but apparently it's popular here. I'm not a big fan to be honest, but I don't mind having it once in a while. Heather told me that her madre had made them polloguesas, or chicken burgers with the meat, which she didn't like at all. After la cena Alicia and I talked about getting packed for Madrid, but decided we could do that Thursday night, so we went to bed instead.
Our instructor is named Nacho, (that's a completely legitimate Spanish name in case you're wondering) and he started off the class by telling us to sit down and close our eyes and dance only with our arms. The reason our eyes were closed was so that we didn't feel silly. After that we got up and had to dance only with our feet, which was a little more difficult since we didn't have that great of balance. Finally we could dance however we wanted, and it was awesome because everyone actually got into it and moved around the room and jumped and wasn't worried about how they looked or who was watching. I loved the music that he was playing, at first we listened to African music, then he switched it up going from techno to classical to rock, and encouraged us to change our dance style as each song played.
When we were done with that warm-up we started off with a greek dance in which we're all in a circle holding hands, except that the circle is left open. The opening is there because of the myth of the Labyrinth, so that there's always a way out. Interesting to learn that. The dance was pretty simple, and it was fun because we got to yell "hey" at some points too. The second dance, a Swiss dance was MUCH harder. It involved high fives, changing partners, spinning and all that sort of stuff. It was hilarious because when we were done Nacho told us that it was a disaster. At least we had fun right?
They reviewed the French wedding dance that they had done the week before, and it wasn't too hard to catch on to. It was basically a line dance, but the spinning threw a few people off. We were all nice and sweaty when the class was over, but it was refreshing.
We had spaghetti with sauce for la cena when we got home. The sauce was really interesting, it was made with ground chicken, which is something I've never come across in the US, but apparently it's popular here. I'm not a big fan to be honest, but I don't mind having it once in a while. Heather told me that her madre had made them polloguesas, or chicken burgers with the meat, which she didn't like at all. After la cena Alicia and I talked about getting packed for Madrid, but decided we could do that Thursday night, so we went to bed instead.
