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I was never a good dancer … well maybe at AIESEC dances :) Anyway, last Wednesday I we were invited to take a crash course Salsa lesson by our lovely Sabine^[1].

After work we walked across town, to a bar near Erasmus Bridge. After some refreshments we were invited below, into the “classroom” :). We started with basic moves and advanced rather quickly to more advanced stuff. I must say tough it looks pretty simple, when it comes to repeat the moves yourself, it’s a whole different story. Sabine and her boyfriend are really good at this. They cracked jokes, explained everything in detail and used very cool methods to prevent us from making basic mistakes.

After 2 hours we were all deadly tired. I think I still need a lot of lessons :) but I managed for my first one. Sabine invited us to a Salsa club called “The Beach”^[2] at the “Niew Maas” river to practice what we learned.

Remember what I always told you about trying new things? Remember Titanic? Some of you might have found the movie stupid … I for one liked it and learned from it. Rose promised she will follow her dreams … and she did. She really lived her life as it were not tomorrow, she loved as she would never love again. She dies happy in the end surrounded by all her memories all the things she’s done, all the people she touched. I wish we all could go like that.

PS: No pictures this time … we were to busy getting our moves right.

Cheers,
The Lion.^[3]

1. AI Office Manager, not an AIESEC member. [»]
2. It has an artificial beach, with sand and everything. [»]
3. The song to this post is: Klazz Brothers – Cuban Sugar (Symphonic Salsa). Open “Lion’s Radio” and scroll down to listen to it. [»]