i gave up.

yeah, so i suck. i gave up.
i went for the first day of the dance thing with selene on tuesday. it was not quite what i expected. it wasn't so much the praying and "worshipping", cos there wasn't much of that really.. but it was more the level of dancing required.

selene had reassured me that it'd be simple. but this class was far from simple, the instructor was some bright-eyed and bushy-tailed 24 yr old who was waaay perky (think cheerleader/drill team person). anyhow, i felt old, REALLY old. of course, the rest of the class was probably closer to my age than my sister's but they were all members of some "dance ministry" and hence i'm sure they're far more used to contorting themselves than i am.

so anyhow, the first day went by pretty uneventfully. i was, believe it or not, not the worst dancer of the lot (even discounting the 2 girls who had obviously no dance experience)... but still..

i went back for more yesterday.. but problem was i got stuck in a meeting at work and they turn off the a/c at a certain time so 7 of us were stuck in a room breathing in each other's expelled air. mmm. didn't feel so good after that and the cab ride to the dance thing didn't help. i felt pretty darn dizzy doing the warm-ups so i decided to call it quits. i told the teacher i wouldn't be performing on saturday. if it had just been a group thing, i think it would have been ok. but the teacher had some ambitious plans for rows, and canons, and orders, and "organised chaos".. so i figured i'd give advance notice so that i didn't ruin her rows.

so, still aching and feeling generally bleah (as the time of the month will do to you), i'm bailing on tonite. don't think i'll make it. need rest.

and i just found out today that one of our friends from stanford is going to be coming to singapore on friday evening.. and she'll probably be staying over with us.. so it's now a matter of figuring out how to squeeze this dance thing in with showing her around on saturday.
hmm.