Dancing and Soccer

So I went out dancing last night, which isn't usually my bag, but I had a great time.  One student who has been in private lessons also for the past few weeks is leaving tomorrow, so she organized a few students, a few guides, and the 3 sisters of one of the guides to go out.  All in all, we were a group of 8, but with 5 locals, which is a great mix.  We were also 5 girls to 3 guys, which is always good as well.

We went to a bar that turned into a mix of a salsa club and a regular dance club.  At about 11:30, live salsa music started and for the next 2.5 hours while we were there, the band played for about 30 minutes alternative with 30 or so minutes of DJ dance music.  I've never danced salsa before, so I was ridiculously bad even though some of the girls in our group tried to teach me.  I must have done something right though (I think what I did right was being a foreigner), bc a girl from another table (after asking the girls at our table permission) pulled me on the floor and we danced for about 15 or 20 minutes.  She even grabbed me over to her table for pictures before I left :)  I'm telling you though, I was an awful dancer, so it wasn't the dancing that brought her over.

Today I went to a soccer game with some people, although things didn{t work out as planned.  First we took a bus about 30 minutes in the wrong direction, so we didn't get to the stadium until about 1:35 for a game that we thought started at 1.  We bought our tickets, sat down, watched a goal a few nice saves and 10 minutes later the game ended.  Turns out it stated at 12!  What a pain in the ass!  Oh well... worse things have happened.  We stuck around the stadium for a while just to see things get cleaned up, etc... and then headed to the zocalo for some lunch, some live music, and to watch spray paint artists at work.  Not a bad day, even though it didn{t go as planned.

And a shout out to Beth, who has her first day of work tomorrow!  Good luck!  And remember what Jeff says, "tick, tock, tick, tock....."