Thursday I went to my first salsa dancing lesson. It was good to do some partner dancing and there is enough English proficiency that I have no problems. Last night I went to the Mojito club, which is across the hall from Project Salsa. I wanted to watch people salsa dancing, as well as scope out this supposed good place to dance.
I met my friend from modern dance there, the one who introduced me to PS. He got me to dance once with a friend of his, which was not so good. After only one lesson I was quite unqualified. I had success with only the most basic turns, since she was not familiar with any of the swing moves I tried to lead.
However it seems like, were I to know how to dance, that would be a good place to go. Immediately upon arriving I was concerned that everyone came with a date (as a consequence of people pairing up young here). It is more prevalent there than, say, at Tapestry, but not insurmountable.
We had our last meeting with Professor Wilczynski the other day. He is traveling for a few weeks and we will meet with him again to present the results of our research in early August. Until then, it seems that we will be managing our own schedules.
I'm sure I mentioned earlier the group of English speaking students who live in our dorm. They still exist, but are difficult to track down. This may seem the case because we tend to travel on weekends. This weekend we stuck around, but I have not been able to locate them.
Next weekend we are thinking of traveling to Zakopane. It's a scenic city in the Tatra mountains on the Slovakian border. I had been hoping to make it to Prague, but that trip looks very expensive.
Train to Prague takes 12 hours. Plane is sufficiently expensive that we are inclined not to go. Two years ago Joey and Paul went all over Europe, but at that point you could buy 5 złoty for a dollar. When we arrived here in June it was 2.2 and now it has reduced to 2 even.
You may notice that, relative to the złoty, the dollar has lost 10% of its value in under 2 months. Gross.
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