Hankering for a Dance

Well, it was my first real weekend in Brisbane so I toddled off to spend the day sunbaking on South Bank. After the redness of my shoulders told me it was time to get out of the sun, I went for a nice romantic walk along the river and came across free dance lessons being held in a park. Brisbane City Council is really good about promoting active participation and has some fantastic programs aimed at getting regular lazy-arses (like myself) up and going. So this weekend they had an activate brisbane theme and ran free dance classes. They had salsa, Ethopian Bahil Dance, African hip hop and belly dancing... yes all out in public for the whole world to see=) At least it satisfied my craving for line dancing (Shaz just doesn't understand;P)

I was a little late for Salsa, but had a one hour Ethiopian session and a one hour belly dancing class. Was so much fun, and yes you look stupid, but then again so does everybody else. I wanted to try African hip-hop, but belly dancing came up and hip-hop looked just a tad out of my league (seen me line dance???). So overall, a lonely sunday turned into one of the most fun times I've had in a while and I made some new friends out of it. Will be going to the sessions they are holding at New Farm park in a couple of weeks and yay, my sister is going to come=)