中央線でSalsa

Happy New Year! This is my first post of the year, so I guess I can still say that. 

It is Friday today, and I am sooo looking forward to the weekend! I have my HTDC Salsa on Sunday, and we are almost at the end of learning our salsa and bachata routines, which means we get to probably learn some fancy acrobatty dance moves for the endings! Then on Monday, I have HTDC bachata open lesson and then their twice-a-month social dance! Even Saturday, though, which is a long stressful, work day, I'm excited for. Why? Because I found a cool Saturday weekly salsa thing! 

So last week, I was checking this app I was shown called salsa calendar that shows events on certain days near your chosen location. I randomly checked and found one called salsa on the Chuo line 中央線でサルサ, which also happens to be the train line that my work is at every Saturday...so I checked where and found that it was super near me and starts shortly after I finish work! There was no way I couldn't go give it a try! There is one little thing though, and that is the fact that the salsa I have learned and am good at is on 1 style salsa, or LA style, and their lesson is on 2 style, or NY style, which I had no idea even existed until at a social dance, I was asked "1 or 2?" and was like huh?? and then they said New York or LA, and I was like ohhhh where am I from? NY! And then he did on 2 and I was like AHHHHH, and he got it, and went into on 1 and then I was ok XD I Googled it later.

I didn't particularly have an interest in learning on 2 style salsa, but it was too good of a time and place to pass up, and it can only improve my dancing overall, so I went! It was confusing. The steps are the same, but it's just like one count different and my brain has been already wired to on 1, so it makes it extra difficult for me to pick it up. Luckily, everyone was SUPER nice and friendly, and some spoke English a bit, and let me know that almost everyone there could also do on 1, so for the social dance, I would be able to dance my heart out! I also asked if there were any bachata dancers, and there were a few, so they played a bit of bachata for me too. And I tried some cha-cha, which like salsa but more steps??  The craziest thing though, was that I met someone who used to do theatre things with my work like MANY years ago! And then another man whose daughter is currently studying abroad at West Virginia University!! My university in America! How crazy is that? What a coincidence XD I told him to tell her to go to Yama Japanese restaurant in Morgantown for some real, good, Japanese food if she gets homesick.

I danced and drank and talked, and had so much fun!! They all accepted me into their group so quickly and easily, and it's a weekly event, so I'm gonna go every week that I can! On 2, I'm gonna have to figure you out I guess. I love dancing!