We are the Sultans of Salsa......

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  Queztaltenango, Guatemala
Thursday, February 8, 2007

One of these days you lot are not going to get the questionable pleasure of reading about our adventures everyday, but not today (especially when the alternative to us writing this is going home to study Los Verbos de Espanol).

We are feeling more confident about our Spanish little-by-little (poco-a-poco) but last night we could only laugh as Sam endeavoured to use his new words.

Situation: Sam has extremely dirty sandals and feebly attempts to ask our host Mama, Dora, if there is an outside tap he can use......
Sam:    Mis......eeeeh....Sandalias.....eeeeh.....estan....eeeeeh... ...mucho sucio (dirty).
Dora:   **bemused look**
Sam:    Tu....tienes.......eeeeeeeeeeeeeehhh........un.......grefo (tap)....afuera (outside)....
***Pause*** - Dora tries to understand the 2 sentences that took 2 minutes.
Dora:   Agua??!! (Water - looking at my filthy shoes)
Sam:    Si!!! **looking relieved and disappointed at not being understood at the same time**

(For the record, the above story was written by Sam, I thought he did well even trying....)

Today after our lessons, we went to free Salsa classes. We were told that everyone would be beginners. So imagine our nervousness when the 2 people on the floor when we arrived were FREAKING AWESOME. We sat there for about half an hour before we were called up with some teachers from our school who were very understanding and showed us the basic steps, which we clumsily tried to replicate.

But who knew, we weren´t actually as bad as we thought we would be, and after an hour or so, Frances was twirling around (Frances doesn´t consider any dance worthwhile unless she can twirl folks) and Sam was shaking his groove-thang like an old pro. Whether or not we go back next week remains to be seen (that´s if they let us in - it probably pains those with latin blood to see such a sensual dance being brutalised by 2 goofy gringos.......plus we´ve been known to have been thrown out of lesser establishments before!!).

Home now for tea. Toodles.

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