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I just wanted to relay an interesting time I had the other night when a few of us went to salsa lessons, which happen to be taught by the world champions the last 2 years running. Only four of us went (all girls) to lessons and arrived maybe 15 minutes before our lesson ''began'' so we got to watch the group that was practicing, and they were pretty good.
for some reason, they are short one woman towards the end (i guess someone had to leave early) and they ask one of us to fill in. One girl, vanessa, was pretty experienced, so she danced, and we watched her for awhile. after about 5-10 minutes they need another girl, so they pull me in! i can do some basic steps, but they were doing this complicated thing where all the couples form a circle and you switch partners all the time, so i was a little nervous. but after a bit i got the hang of it, and loved it by the end.
when our lesson began, vanessa and i got to dance with partners, while the other two girls danced with each other as they hadn't any experience. my partner was alberto, a 22 year old student who also happend to be 6'8''. i'm not kidding, he was that tall. so we danced for the next hour, and at first it was really hard to get used to the height difference, but i got used to it by the end. apparently we were a comical sight, especially when we were being taught a move called the mexican hat dance, where each partner sweeps their arms over the head of the other and does a turn. since that was clearly impossible (we didn't even try) we did other steps.
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