Re-living the past

Went to studio today to help out in a workshop. Jinjin had asked me abt it, saying that Gladys asked if I can help, so I agreed without really knowing what I'm helping. On arrival, I saw a few of the guys doing salsa steps in the small room. Only then did I realize I'll be helping in salsa!(I only know basic salsa.. haha)

We went through the steps that will be used for the lesson. Luckily all are basic steps. We then waited for the "students" to come. When they came, I see that most of them were in their middle or lower middle age. From what I learned later, they're from the Herald Tribune coming for their conference from overseas branches. This workshop is organized by the organizer of the conference, as part of their activity. (How nice to have a company that arrange such things...). We had fun partnering the "students" and teaching them the steps. I especially enjoy it when they enjoy themselves and is very eager to learn, and willing to try even though they made a lot of mistakes.

At the end of the workshop, we even had a mini exam/competition where 2 couples go out to dance while the others watch!! After the class ended, the lady whom I partnered even gave me gifts of a keychain and a paper bino-culars from their goodies bag.

I stayed in the studio until nighttime to settle some admin stuff for the coming competition that the SGDF is organizing. Today happen to be Saturday, so there's the Saturday night practice, where they will dim the lights in the dance floor and put coloured lights. The whole atmosphere is very good for dancing with good lighting and good music. Couples, especially competitors, who wanna practice will come on this day to practice what they've been training for the whole week. I can really feel the thrill of dancing amongst them, among people who can dance really well, and who gives off such a feeling of energy and also with the different feel that each of the different dance gives. (Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Slow Foxtrot, Quickstep for Standard section, and Samba, Cha cha, Rumba, Paso Doble, Jive for Latin section)

Each dance has its unique characteristics, giving different feelings of serenity, excitement, passion, romance, aggressiveness, playfulness, cheeky, feeling of wanting to fly, even the thrill of jumping around!! A friend even commented that Waltz is like a roller coaster ride! Listening to such nice music, such good atmosphere, and such good dancing, kinda makes me miss dancing.. I think its the only activity I did that gave me such a range of emotions, from anger to joy, from sadness to happiness, from feeling so lousy to feeling so good about myself. I started to dance a bit of basic steps, but got tired of it, cos no partner, no routine, kinda got bored.. so i just enjoy other people dancing with my eyes though my body is reacting to the music.. haiz.. but its ok.. I have other priorities now. I'll be back if I can, hopefully with my future wife!! Now... thats a nice thought!! :D