ELEVATION

ha...never thought that i'd post something that late huh?

well, neither did i.

it's all my girl friend's fault. she and her boyfriend swung by jitterbugs to chance a dying fiesta, and wanted to go clubbing.

now i don't drink, you see.

so i suggested union square, since matthew was hanging out with his friends there.

*"what's the correlation?" you ask. well, it's better to go to union with a partner so even if no one else asks you to dance, you still have that one dance partner to hang on to...haha.

it was already just after 0000hrs, and we had problems getting a cab, but we got there eventually.

until matthew asked me to dance, i was just soaking in the atmosphere.

union is perfect for me - my friends wanna drink, and i wanna dance.

so matthew and i dance. then rest. then dance again.

just after i sat down after our second number, this guy i met at class today asked me to dance.

and so i did.

after one song, we approached the table and he asked if i knew any of the cuban steps from the earlier classes.

i tried to teach him a couple but we just ended up dancing. and shining.

ah...the shines.

i think people were watching me shine.

*for the uninitiated, "shining" is the term used for a person dancing solo, aka freestyling.

it's so odd...because the styling came quite naturally to me, and people were impressed.

like...c'mon, it's UNION SQUARE we're talking about here. EVERYONE knows how to dance (much better than i do).

so after i finished the second song with that guy, his friend told me he liked my shines and that he'd like to dance with me. okay.

then after i finally got to sit down for a bit, matthew was like "woah...you've improved TREMENDOUSLY since the last time. how did you learn to shine like that?"

and i was like..."HUH? you mean you guys don't know how to do it?!"

oh well. then this EXPERT asked me to dance.

i was sweating palms and pits man...i kept trying to tell him that i'm quite a beginner, but he just took over and spun me all over the freakin dancefloor.

matthew, wendy and david were all stunned into gaping.

i was too stunned myself to even think what happened after it all ended!

EIGHT dances in less than two hours.

i think that was quite enough for me.

it was funness tonight.

and i stepped out of my shell.

FINALLY.