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Craziest/most fun/best night ever. Schachter's jazz thing with 1/2 of Chamber Singers, with just Schachter on piano, 2 guys on sax, 1 guy on upright bass, and 1 on drums, in which they played a Tears for Fears song and ended with "Sexual Eruption" by Snoop Dogg. Then went back to my room and chilled for a while, until the Jews came back from their Jewish-ness thing. (i.e. they went to a huge Shabbat dinner at the MAC and it was large and took a rather long time) Then Shai calls me to ask whether I want to go salsa dancing. I, of course, immediately say yes, throw on a skirt and ballet flats, and run over to meet up with Molly, Jenny and her boyfriend, Shai, and Deo, and we all go over to this place on Inman Square where we get in for free because it was before 10 pm.
Then everyone tries to teach me how to salsa, and I'm somehow under the impression that the step is hard, so I'm all tense and worried, since I'm generally not a good dancer. Shai jokingly yells at me to relax a bunch of times. Then this random Latin American guy asks me to dance, and it's merengue, where the step is really simple, and he leads me in all these fancy steps. (That's what I love about Latin American dancing - the guy does most of the work!) And I dance with another guy and follow Jenny's advice to move my hips more, and I finally relax and start getting into it.
And then, tragically, they start playing modern music that is definitely not salsa and which is prohibitively loud, and we leave around midnight to take the bus home. I should really get out and dance more often.
Then everyone tries to teach me how to salsa, and I'm somehow under the impression that the step is hard, so I'm all tense and worried, since I'm generally not a good dancer. Shai jokingly yells at me to relax a bunch of times. Then this random Latin American guy asks me to dance, and it's merengue, where the step is really simple, and he leads me in all these fancy steps. (That's what I love about Latin American dancing - the guy does most of the work!) And I dance with another guy and follow Jenny's advice to move my hips more, and I finally relax and start getting into it.
And then, tragically, they start playing modern music that is definitely not salsa and which is prohibitively loud, and we leave around midnight to take the bus home. I should really get out and dance more often.