"In dancing, there are no mistakes, only variations"

So one last update before I'm into la-la land!

I'm packing everything and well...this is how it looks!

There's a red line indicating how full it is.  I'm hoping to bring back some cool stuff after all of this is said and done - and I can conveniently pack my carry-on into it.

And to segway into the night, I'll end it with a highlight of my day.  Today I had my first private lesson for well...anything!  Salsa to be exact, and with the guy with the quote below.  If anything, he reminds me of the guy from Along Came Polly; "Hey Leuban"!  I gotta say it's definitely a different feeling than breakdancing, but maybe it's the beginners charm.  We discussed it a bit, he and I, how in the beginning one must have a strong foundation in order to achieve that so-called freedom that I can experience in breakdancing.  Which brings me into a story from yesterday - my short preview into my return to Salsa.

I took a few classes of what I believe were Rueda de Casino style back in Bloomington and a small bit is returning to me.  Anyway, I've been attending some salsa events for the past few days, meeting some pretty cool people - mostly dudes from South America - and have been taking the plunge back into Salsa smoothly.  As I was taking my class the other day, I met a Marian - I think - who kind of reminded me of Dovydas - a guy from Lithuania who "studied" interpretative dance - because she was into learning about other forms of dance.   She started getting into a really interesting topic of how dancing can be interpreted into life.  And we started go into the tangent of my roots (which unfortunately have only really started to grow recently; despite my "seniority").  Our conversation was inadvertently interrupted when this man walked up to me asked me - mind you, in German - "Japan? China? Korea?" (I love this conversation starter by the way), so I responded with something I had not used in years; Bolivia and Botswana.  Much to his surprise, he accepted it and told me his name happened to lie in Botswana, shook my hand, and left as our class started to enter the building...

"In dancing, there are no mistakes, only variations"
-Flavio Alborino