In town there is a place for salsa dancing that is meant for beginners. Despite their being a large showing and earlier hours I rarely go. This is because I am not a very smart person. I decided to go last night because I knew a few of the other students in the class I'm taking were going to be there too and it would make it really easy to ask someone to dance. I also went because there was one girl in the class I took an interest to, and I made sure to be very charming to her friends as a way to get closer to her.
So I went and sure enough the five of them were there. Right away I asked one of the girls, Annie, to dance and struck up a conversation with her. She lives in town and has a full time job as an English teacher as a second language to international students. This was rather interesting to me. First I wanted to know if she works primarily with one ethnicity or several. She said she works with students from all over the world. So then I asked if she speaks any other languages and she said German and a little sign language. That surprised me a little bit. I know from movies that when you take a foreign language at something like a community college usually they take the immersion approach where the teacher only speaks in that language, but it sounds so difficult to me. I realize this is how babies learn but I still think it sounds hard.
I also found out that her sister, who was also there, is best friends with the girl I was interested in. Hopefully you're catching the past tense in these references. Eventually I danced with Annie's friend Rachel. Now Rachel I believe is in public accounting. She mentioned she started dancing on and off since her first year of grad school in 2001. So Rachel is a few years older than me. She then said Annie's sister and her friend were still in school at a nearby smaller town and were 19. Come again? 19? Well that just won't do at all.
But at least the dancing part was fun. I got to practice all the moves we learned in class and had some nice people to do it with.
So I went and sure enough the five of them were there. Right away I asked one of the girls, Annie, to dance and struck up a conversation with her. She lives in town and has a full time job as an English teacher as a second language to international students. This was rather interesting to me. First I wanted to know if she works primarily with one ethnicity or several. She said she works with students from all over the world. So then I asked if she speaks any other languages and she said German and a little sign language. That surprised me a little bit. I know from movies that when you take a foreign language at something like a community college usually they take the immersion approach where the teacher only speaks in that language, but it sounds so difficult to me. I realize this is how babies learn but I still think it sounds hard.
I also found out that her sister, who was also there, is best friends with the girl I was interested in. Hopefully you're catching the past tense in these references. Eventually I danced with Annie's friend Rachel. Now Rachel I believe is in public accounting. She mentioned she started dancing on and off since her first year of grad school in 2001. So Rachel is a few years older than me. She then said Annie's sister and her friend were still in school at a nearby smaller town and were 19. Come again? 19? Well that just won't do at all.
But at least the dancing part was fun. I got to practice all the moves we learned in class and had some nice people to do it with.
1 comments:
Too bad about the young interest, but it sounds promising that you met some nice people your own age! You should go out with them again! WAM
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