One of the things David and I love is folk dancing. We both started folk dance at BYU and made it to different teams. David was even on the back-up team (or SPAC) this year!
Anyway, like I said, we love dancing so we decided to be counselors for the folk dance camp this year. That was a great thing and we had a lot of fun with the kids. I had a group of 6 girls between 10 and 13 and David had a group of 6 boys between 9 and 18. It was a lot of fun to take care of the kids and to help them learn the dances and enjoy the camp. We did everything together. David had to teach the boys a couple dances and that was a good experience for him. We learned Irish dances, African, Hawaiian and Polynesian dances and also a mixture of dances from all over the world including my and David's most favorite, Israeli folk dances.
Now, that the camp is over and we both got back to our jobs (we both work in computer labs on campus), we decided that we wanted some folk dance in our life so, I became a TA for the international folk dance class and David TA-s for the clogging class. We both have a lot of fun TA-ing even if it's hard sometimes to teach dances. It's a very rewarding activity too because we get to learn from the teachers how we can become better teachers and dancers and in the same time we help students get better and learn the dances faster.
Because I want to get better at dancing, I decided to take an Irish Dance class at the Power Academy of Irish Dance. It's a class where I can learn proper technique and become stronger and more true to the Irish dance style. I like the class because it gives me the chance to practice and learn new things and it's also fun and entertaining. All the students are friendly and the teacher, Aubrey, is really nice and a great dancer.
I love being a TA and I love folk dance. Oh, I forgot to mention this: It's because of folk dance that I met David. We were in a dance class together when we first met last year. But that's going to be another story...
