Talk about what I did on my birthday; graduation, visit to my old pre-school, great meals.
Latin Dance Festival 09
Went along to the Latin Dance Festival this weekend. It was held at the town hall and basically consisted of 2 hours of professional dancers strutting their stuff. The majority of it was very impressive and the crowd really got it to it. During the half time break a Latin band performed and about a quarter of the crowd got up to dance. It was a fun night out.
They also did some dancing work shops during the day in Victoria Square and sold a variety of South American Food. Unfortunately the weather didn’t hold up and rain put a bit of a damper on things.
Latin Dance Class
Ivy’s friend and classmate, Maria, runs the Latin Dance Festival here in Christchurch. The festival will be starting on the 28th of February and to drum up some interest she has been running free Latin dance classes at Christchurch Art Museum on Wednesday nights.
Ivy and I went along to this weeks class. I was surprised with the turn out, there was at least 50 plus people there. It started off pretty slow with us all in a line copying some basic steps. Before I knew what was going on we were paired up and learning our first of three dance moves. After an hour of spinning and toe crunching we managed to become quite good at the three moves and were dancing away happily.
It was a pretty fun night and I would recommend it to anyone. Especially you guys out there. The girls out numbered the boys two to one, making dancing classes a great place to pick up chicks. Plus once you learn to dance your chances of pulling while out on the town are bound to increase exponentially.
oooooh just like dicky Gere in "shall we dance"…keep it up son,your blog is
full of cool stuff.(read it out to my wife and she started to swooooon…).
love that hand motion(part of the dance or pure inspiration?)
It was part of the dance, but I like to think I gave it a little something special.
2 to 1 Epic! I'm going to have to sign up to these courses in Blenheim!
Last Train to India
One thing I noticed is the uncomfortableness that arises when friends are all of a sudden put into customer/service roles. It’s weird to all of a sudden have a friend treat you like a customer. I’m sure it was the same for her, she might have felt the need to treat me special or chat with me when she was really needed elsewhere. Anyone else have experiences like this?
Yeah, we had a similar experience when we went down to Cornwall and stayed with my Dad's cousin who owns a hotel with a restaurant. When we ate at the restaurant we were served by my cousin's friends who we'd met socially the day before. The whole "I know you, but you're my waitress/bartender" thing was a little weird, especially as you're expected to tip in the UK.
heyy Ki thanks for that…sweet of you to have written about me 
yeah it did feel a little strange and probably someday four of us can sit and dine together when we are closed for public
Hey Aman,
Can't believe you found my site. I'll take you up on that dinner any day. Still trying to arrange a time for Adwina, Angie and I to come in for a bite.
Heat Wave
Today it got up to a whopping 39 degrees Celsius. Luckily, I work at a preschool so I can always just get the hose out and start a water fight. Ivy on the other hand was stuck in a storage room at Spotlight. Poor girl.
Belated Happy Birthday! And congrats on your graduation!