Dance Recital

I am taking a Middle Eastern Dance class. It is so fun. I just love it. The instructor is such a builder and she is half Armenian so she feels deeply about dance and strives to create a strong sisterhood. We performed in a recital outside in a park. The audience sat on blankets on the side of a hill opposite the "stage". This seemed like the perfect setting for such a traditional dance. Throughout time dancing has been a way for women to bond. Women used to dance for one another as well as men. I love the sisterhood that is found in Middle Easter Dance. It is also an extremely technical dance form. I enjoy the challenge of mastering it and believe me that is a struggle. I feel like the most clumsy one in the entire class.

Our beginner class only had 4 people. It was a cozy environment. I made friends with a girl, Lizzie, who is 23-years old. She thought I was around her same age and wanted to set me up with her brother-in-law who recently returned from a mission. :) I am starting to notice some signs of aging so this made me feel particularly good.

Now I am taking an intermediate class and it has a lot more students. Jenny Stanger is also taking the class with me.

I am enjoying this time to learn and grow before our family starts. :)

Mosiah 20:1-5
1 Now there was a place in ^aShemlon where the daughters of the Lamanites did gather themselves together to sing, and to ^bdance, and to make themselves merry.

2 And it came to pass that there was one day a small number of them gathered together to sing and to dance.

4 And having tarried in the wilderness, and having discovered the daughters of the Lamanites, they laid and watched them;

5 And when there were but few of them gathered together to dance, they came forth out of their secret places and took them and carried them into the wilderness; yea, twenty and four of the ^adaughters of the Lamanites they carried into the wilderness.