time to put on your dancing shoes

i can't believe i did but i did.
go for ballroom dance classes that is. LOL. i know... ballroom dancing... i usually associate that with rich older women who have nothing to do who do chachas at hotel bars when the live band is playing. sorry! stereotyping i know... i just still can't get that image out of my head.

so there is this club in uni called UCanDance(?) not really sure of the name but sounds like that la. and some friends of mine invited me to go for their weekly dance classes. yeah, partner dancing. me feeling rather unfit and guilty of it agreed to try it out. i mean, how hard can it be right?

well that was last night.


i have to say, it wasn't too bad... though i did step on a few toes (oops!) and was blur a lot. well, i'm new what... but it was pretty fun! dancing is always fun... well except when i get stressed out cos i can't remember my steps. we had this thing where every 5 mins or so we had to change partners so it was good when you got a lousy partner. haha. i guess the good thing, which was also a bad thing is that ballroom dancing is led by the men so women just follow through and allow themselves to be steered. it's good cos i don't really have to learn the steps and just follow what my partner is doing, but bad that i don't have much control over what i'm doing. i was twirled, steered, shoved, moved around just like a ragdoll. but i like jive... very lively and it's easy to pick up. and i don't have to concentrate on footwork like how i have to in salsa.


i did get a few incredulous "are you sure this is your first time dancing this?" so it was flattering, rather. hehe.