YOB: #9. Learn To Belly Dance (Part 2)

By Lara

I suppose I can no longer ignore "Learn to Belly Dance." Belly dancing always sounds like fun. My friend Leslie tried to convince me to take belly dancing lessons with her when they were offered at the community college. I've always rather regretted not taking that class. I imagine that's how "Learn to Belly Dance" ended up on the Year of the Birthday List...

Armed with several video tapes called "Belly Dancing for Beginners," Kate and I drove to Beth's house one fine spring day...

After several attempts to make parts of my body move in directions that they were never designed to move without causing a chain reaction of movement in other parts of my body, I came to the conclusion that belly dancing is not for me.

It is something that you should start early. Like bonzai trees. You have to train your body to do things it wouldn't normally do. You should also be graceful. I believe that there is still a rather embarassing video of me on facebook trying unsuccessfully to belly dance.

We tried to learn to belly dance for about an hour. Then our learning devolved into making fun of the people on the video tapes. It's funny how often that happens. We decided that we had put forth enough effort to check it off the list.

Then we had lunch at the International House of Pancakes, but I'm told that doesn't count for our "International Dinner/Party" entry on the list. You can't blame a girl for trying, though, right?