I received a belated birthday present today that caused me a bit of laughter: two “Learn Country Line Dancin’” videos! Unfortunately, I don’t have a VCR, but whenever I do have the opportunity to view them, I imagine it will provide quite a bit of enjoyment. I have some friends here at school who would love to learn country line dancing, and would probably enjoy watching these videos with me.

Ballroom dance class is quite fun! The last two weeks have been spent learning the basics of Two Step, including the two step basic, free spins, outside and inside ladies turns, walking, and pivoting. I feel like I’ve got it down pretty well and can fairly easily lead it. We have just started learnign the Rhumba, which has a much more confusing basic step that I am not really all that solid on. We have also learned the New York (or New Yorker?) move for Rhumba, in addition to the Rhumba basic, and one turn. The last thing we were taught today was a second type of turn, but we had very little time to practice it. In any case, dancing is great fun, and I look forward to continuing my learning of Two Step, Rhumba, and eventually Jive, Cha Cha, Tango, Waltz, and some other things.