The Monday and the Tuesday

Went to the Wilde Bunch first open house for Class 66 on Monday night, as a dancer and club member this time, since Kris is teaching this one, too. Before that though, I suffered through an hour of C1 nonsense. Two of the dancers (and I use that term loosely) after two years are unable to execute the simplest of the C1 calls, so every tip was an exercise in stop-and-tell-them-where-to-go. Looking at it from a dancer viewpoint, rather than as a caller, is a different animal. I was very tempted to take them aside and ask them WHAT in the HELL did they think they were doing there? But I didn't.

We had 9 fresh-faced new folk for the first open house, and at least 3 lapsed WB come back for the first night. Kris did a nice job of keeping them moving the whole time. A least 4 squares were up for all the new dancer tips.

Georgian announced again the 25th anniversary dance we have coming up on March 22. Kris and I have to sit down and work out what dances and workshops we'll have during the day before the big Anne U dance that night. She announced that it's for experienced dancers, but I told her that there WOULD be dancing for the new dancers, too! After all, I got hooked on it when the WB had their first flyin in 1983, and I was a very new dancer of only 4 lessons...but I got to dance a LOT, which put the bug in my soul for square dancing.

Tuesday, I had prepped a lot for the first night of Plus and Advanced class. Starting out with full Mainstream and full Plus tips, I told the dancers that were there for lessons that these were tests for them...if they felt that they could get through the (admittedly easy) calling I was doing, then they were welcome to take the classes. This, after almost 3 weeks of no Plus/Advanced dancing, too. Only one of the Mainstreamers couldn't get through many calls, so he wisely sat out the rest of the night and just socialized. Other than that, we hit the ground running with both programs. I know in the next few weeks, it will slow down a lot in the teaching process, since the dancers will start to get overloaded, but there is so much enthusiasm with this group, it's catching. With the angels, we had 3 squares of Plus and 3 squares of Advanced the whole night.

So, after all this, I come home to Danny mentioning he thought my hard drive had crashed while I was out. And indeed it appears to have done just that...there was an error message on the screen that the computer couldn't find the operating system. I turned it off, and that's that.

Watched another "Life on Mars" episode from BBCA. Getting a little antsy to find out why Sam can't seem to come out of his coma and is living this huge police detective life in his unconscious mind! Maybe it'll all come out soon.

The Monday and the Tuesday

Went to the Wilde Bunch first open house for Class 66 on Monday night, as a dancer and club member this time, since Kris is teaching this one, too. Before that though, I suffered through an hour of C1 nonsense. Two of the dancers (and I use that term loosely) after two years are unable to execute the simplest of the C1 calls, so every tip was an exercise in stop-and-tell-them-where-to-go. Looking at it from a dancer viewpoint, rather than as a caller, is a different animal. I was very tempted to take them aside and ask them WHAT in the HELL did they think they were doing there? But I didn't.

We had 9 fresh-faced new folk for the first open house, and at least 3 lapsed WB come back for the first night. Kris did a nice job of keeping them moving the whole time. A least 4 squares were up for all the new dancer tips.

Georgian announced again the 25th anniversary dance we have coming up on March 22. Kris and I have to sit down and work out what dances and workshops we'll have during the day before the big Anne U dance that night. She announced that it's for experienced dancers, but I told her that there WOULD be dancing for the new dancers, too! After all, I got hooked on it when the WB had their first flyin in 1983, and I was a very new dancer of only 4 lessons...but I got to dance a LOT, which put the bug in my soul for square dancing.

Tuesday, I had prepped a lot for the first night of Plus and Advanced class. Starting out with full Mainstream and full Plus tips, I told the dancers that were there for lessons that these were tests for them...if they felt that they could get through the (admittedly easy) calling I was doing, then they were welcome to take the classes. This, after almost 3 weeks of no Plus/Advanced dancing, too. Only one of the Mainstreamers couldn't get through many calls, so he wisely sat out the rest of the night and just socialized. Other than that, we hit the ground running with both programs. I know in the next few weeks, it will slow down a lot in the teaching process, since the dancers will start to get overloaded, but there is so much enthusiasm with this group, it's catching. With the angels, we had 3 squares of Plus and 3 squares of Advanced the whole night.

So, after all this, I come home to Danny mentioning he thought my hard drive had crashed while I was out. And indeed it appears to have done just that...there was an error message on the screen that the computer couldn't find the operating system. I turned it off, and that's that.

Watched another "Life on Mars" episode from BBCA. Getting a little antsy to find out why Sam can't seem to come out of his coma and is living this huge police detective life in his unconscious mind! Maybe it'll all come out soon.