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In a few weeks I'm going to be taking belly dancing twice a week. I'll be carrying on with the six-week sessions offered through our local recreation department, but I'll be adding a private lesson once a week with the same teacher and another student. No one has been more surprised than me by how much I've enjoyed taking the classes. Last August I convinced Megan and Phoebe to take them with me because the idea of belly dancing was so far out that there was no way I could do it alone, plus it's always fun getting out of the house to hang with the ladies. I thought it would be a one-time thing, but I just haven't been able to stop going. About a week ago I went back to that first youtube video I posted back when we signed up for that first session and watched it again. I was surprised that I could name some of the steps she was doing, and could even do them myself. Not as gracefully or self-assured, but I could definitely do them. So hopefully with private lessons my instructor (who's amazing, because if she wasn't so encouraging and fun, I probably *would* have pooped out after the first session) will be able to better whip me into shape.

Last week she told us the name of the song we'll be using for our choreography. There's a dancer on youtube who also uses it. Here it is if you're interested: