scottish country dancing and latin & swing dancing started up this week. i'm positively smitten with my latin & swing group, and the bonus is that they meet 2x a week. there's nothing like getting flung around the dance floor. i was impressed with the number of guys there- normally dynamics are off, but it was nearly even. still, i'm going to harp on all the guys i know. i mean, don't you guys get it? ladies LOVE men that can dance. so you'd think if someone was offering TOTALLY FREE classes, men would flock to it like hungry hyenas to an unattended baby. unfortunately i'm missing the salsa social tonight because i already committed to the scottish country barn dance & corn roast...
drive to the country? dance to live music in a barn? eat some roasted corn? don't mind if i do!
reading
i've been spending copious amounts of time reading. i do have a neil gaiman book to offset my school books, but otherwise it's a lot of stable isotopes and statistics. i know it'll make you totally sick, but i really like statistics. i feel like i was bullied into believing i didn't like numbers in public school. as it turns out, i think numbers (and especially when numbers come to life!) very interesting. i have to find creative ways to drag the artsy half of my brain along though, which involves a lot of freelance learning.
disorientation
this week OPIRG hosted a series of workshops that followed orientation week, aptly dubbed "disorientation". i went to the silk screening workshop (and ended up leading it...). i hadn't brought any clothes to print, but i ran down and grabbed a shirt from the free market to print this:
ahahahahah!
a huge free vegan barbecue followed that, and then a presentation by this awesome group called Otesha (here's a test for jonny- what does that mean in swahili?). they bike around the province camping out and doing environmental theatre performances. does anyone else think this is what i should be doing?...?!
3 comments:
I cheated and looked on their website, so I know what it means in Swahili. I think that very well could be what you should be doing; after two years finishing what you have set your mind to finish! :-D
Not sure how I think about your advertising 'free Love' - hopefully it means shoulder hugs and giving away food and stuff.
sorry, no clue. i had to look at their website too. though technically it doesn't mean "reason to dream" as their website says - it means "to cause to dream", with the literal word being "kuotesha", from the verb "kuota", to dream. any idea how it started in kenya? maybe wangari maathai's green belt movement? i think it sounds great.
also, i would jump (pun!) at some free dance classes.
it was started by two canadian women who lived in kenya for a number of years and became generally appalled by the canadian/developed country way of living.
yeah, i have no doubt you would love the dance club.
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