Some tuesdays I go dancing. Folkdancing. It is sometimes quite challenging, but usually lots of fun! We dance lots of different dances, linedances, regular coupledances and songdances. 17 th of May, which is Norways national day, we were lots of people dancing on Karl Johan street (main street of Oslo). It was raining, but it didn't take the fun out of it. Lots of people were standing along Karl Johan watching us, and that is partly why we gather every tuesday. To practice so that we can perform in different arenas. And we are often asked to perform. Folkdancing is tradition in Norway, aspecially when performed in our national costume. I just love my national costume. My mother sowed it to me for my confirmation, and I feel very beautiful in it. (My sister (Nerdine) has a picture of me in my national costume on her blogsite.) But here I get sidetracked... I was going to tell about this tuesday...! We showed up for a regular dancing practice, only there were too few to have a practice. We waited for half an hour before deciding to go to the cinema instead! We bought six tickets for GEISHA, and sat down to have a drink before we entered the theater. During that time, three more people from our dancing group showed up (and now we were enough people to have our practice, only now we had already bought tickets...!) we ended up buying three more tickets, and all of us went to watch GEISHA. And what a beautiful movie! The atmosphere in the movie was absoulutely fabulous...! I have already decided to watch it again...! I thought I knew a lot about the lives of a Geisha... but I guess I was wrong. It tought me new things about a culture I obviously know too little about. Again I must humbly admit that what I thought I knew to be true was wrong. Life is a mystery, with many truths...!
Thursday, May 25, 2006
A normal tuesday?
Some tuesdays I go dancing. Folkdancing. It is sometimes quite challenging, but usually lots of fun! We dance lots of different dances, linedances, regular coupledances and songdances. 17 th of May, which is Norways national day, we were lots of people dancing on Karl Johan street (main street of Oslo). It was raining, but it didn't take the fun out of it. Lots of people were standing along Karl Johan watching us, and that is partly why we gather every tuesday. To practice so that we can perform in different arenas. And we are often asked to perform. Folkdancing is tradition in Norway, aspecially when performed in our national costume. I just love my national costume. My mother sowed it to me for my confirmation, and I feel very beautiful in it. (My sister (Nerdine) has a picture of me in my national costume on her blogsite.) But here I get sidetracked... I was going to tell about this tuesday...! We showed up for a regular dancing practice, only there were too few to have a practice. We waited for half an hour before deciding to go to the cinema instead! We bought six tickets for GEISHA, and sat down to have a drink before we entered the theater. During that time, three more people from our dancing group showed up (and now we were enough people to have our practice, only now we had already bought tickets...!) we ended up buying three more tickets, and all of us went to watch GEISHA. And what a beautiful movie! The atmosphere in the movie was absoulutely fabulous...! I have already decided to watch it again...! I thought I knew a lot about the lives of a Geisha... but I guess I was wrong. It tought me new things about a culture I obviously know too little about. Again I must humbly admit that what I thought I knew to be true was wrong. Life is a mystery, with many truths...!
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