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.

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YOB: #9. Learn To Belly Dance

By Beth

If anyone who knows either Lara or me is reading this, they are probably having a good laugh already. Neither Lara nor I are known for our grace. We fall down, a lot; bump into things/people, a lot; and generally trip over our own two feet. So the idea of us trying to belly dance is simply laughable.

I don't remember how it got on the list. Perhaps we are gluttons for punishment? We knew ahead of time that the items on the list would be well documented, why would either one of us choose to subject ourselves to that? I guess, in the end, we simply thought it would make US laugh so it would be fun to try. Neither one of us expected to be any good. Apart from a picture I vaguely remember seeing of Lara in a tutu, I don't know that we really can say we had any dance experience going into this. My daughter dances, has since she was 4. She is 13 now and let's just say that she can do things with her body that I could never do!

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