Salsa Dancing!

I think I'm getting a little addicted to dancing lately. I've finally finished a whole semester of Latin Ballroom, although I only took the one offered on Campus. Mainly because it was cheaper, and since I haven't been dancing since I was 12, I wanted to find out if I can re-discover that love for dancing I had when I was small. It turned out that I still loved dancing.

Friday night on Good Friday, my friend took me to Acrobat Lounge. It was quite a fancy place with wood floor, but on Friday nights they pushed all the tables to the side and the restaurant turned into a big dance floor. Friday nights are known as the salsa night for this place, so people came to dance Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, etc. I've never been clubbing at all, so this would be my first clubbing experience, although it wasn't really a club. But, I must say, even though I knew nothing about Salsa before, I learned so much that night because so many guys volunteered to dance with me even though they knew it was my first time to dance Salsa! =p

I must say, again, that girls are at an advantage in this type of case because guys are always looking for girls to dance with. Since usually the guys ask, that means the guy must be confident enough to prove that he can dance. I danced with a few good dancers and some guys that couldn't really keep up with the beat. If I was a good dancer, I could just say "no" to those guys that couldn't really dance. (But of course I'm always too nice to do that, right? *wink* =p) So, in the end, it's harder for guys to learn and be good at it because all the good girl dancers only want to dance with the good guy dancers, y'know what I mean? Whereas the girl, like me, for example, I get to dance with a lot of REALLY GOOD guy dancers simply because they asked. In partner dancing, the guys always lead, that's why they must be pretty good and at least able to keep up with the beat.

A friend of mine, a guy, came with me. And poor thing, he didn't dance at all! =p He got through the lesson, and I danced with him for a song. He couldn't ask girls to dance with him because he didn't know how to dance. Since he has to lead the girl, he should at least know the steps and a few tricks. Girls are usually just being pulled around, here and there, and we just have to learn to follow and learn the signs and gestures given by the guys.

Well, all in all, I had such a great night that I wanted to come back! =) So many guys offered to buy me drinks, but I started rejecting the offers after I had 2 shots. It was over my limit! I don't EVER want to be a drink addict, so I limit myself to 1 shot, or 1 bottle, or just one of anything per drinking time. Also, my friend told me that I shouldn't drink if I want to salsa dance because then I'll get dizzy easily. I guess she was right! =(

At the end of the night my head was spinning and I was hiding behind the tables so that guys wouldn't ask me to dance anymore. But, still a guy asked me to dance with him, and he even taught me to dance Argentine Tango! LOL =p I didn't want to dance, at first, because I felt dizzy. But he promised that he'd go easy on me on the spinning. But, salsa is all about spinning, so we couldn't help ourselves but spin, spin, and spin. Good thing he was such a fun guy, so I still had fun even with my spinning head!

Well, I'm busy with exams for the next 3 weeks so I probably won't be dancing until the end of the month! =( I'll for sure miss it, but I'll soon be back on the dance floor! =D

Anybody wanna join me? ;p