Busy busy week!
Last week on Thursday there was a free concert at the park where Ori and I met for the first time, exactly a year ago, at a similar concert (different artist though). We've been going out as friends a bit lately, and we have fun as long as it's not too much time together (at which point I feel like I want to strangle him). We sat or laid back on a blanket on the grass and talked and enjoyed the music. Until he started saying these really weird things... like, he was leaning against my arm because he was tired, and he said how soft my skin is and how he can get lost in my hair. I mean, wtf? Guys say stuff like that to their girlfriends. Not their female friends with whom they've had a rather catastrophical relationship and almost-sex. That boy is going to be the death of me, seriously. I should just stay away from him, but he's too much fun (for the first 3-4 hours) and he's put a lot of effort into staying friends.
On Friday I went with K and another girl to a different salsa club that my usual one, in Tel-Aviv this time. It's basically a dance studio with 6 separate rooms, very big, lots of space. One room is LA salsa, one is Cuban, and other rooms are other various Latin dance styles. I only danced in the LA room, and I was having a sort of boring time at first, and then... suddenly, Noam. I was taken aback, quite literally - I took a step backwards and went "WTF??" inside my head, and K later told me that I had this really shocked look on my face as well. I was thinking, oh, great, the first time I EVER go to a new salsa place... and boom, he shows up. Gah! But I still got that little thrill in my chest at seeing him. Aaaand I danced with him. For like 10 minutes straight. And it was really fun. There were some good songs, and I got in some really good moves (including one that might have made him spring a boner, it's this really sexy move and I couldn't resist trying it on him! :P He seemed to like it...)
Not very good photos of me (my lace top kept slipping! XD ) but just so there's proof I was there and I had fun:
I danced with other guys over the rest of the night, and I had a pretty good time. It was the first time I'd seen K since she'd gone abroad almost 3 weeks earlier, and it was fun catching up. Only last night she told me that she thought maybe I was the reason Noam had come to that club - he never used to go there before. She said that the day we went, he invited her to the beach. Which made her go WTF? because ever since he dumped me they haven't been talking at all. Which makes sense, since K and I are such good friends. She told him she couldn't go to the beach because she was going to the salsa club. So... she thinks that he guessed I'd be going with her and came too, because of me. And now I'm all confused again >_<
Never mind! I don't wanna think about him. On Saturday of the salsa friends invited me out with them, just to this little pub in their neighborhood. It was fun, but a little boring, so we went out for ice-cream after that XD It was just me, Ron the salsa photographer, another guy I've become friends with since a recent salsa-birthday-party, and another girl. I'm becoming very close with Ron, he's such a sweet guy. I used to think he had a crush on me but now I know we're just friends, and he's a great guy to be friends with. We dance almost every night at the salsa parties and he's now discovered that he can argue about comic-hero movies with me so he's sort of in frends-love with me :)
On Sunday we had a Salsa-Mob event and it was SO MUCH FUNNNN. It was at a place that was something between a youth-center and a hostel or live-in care-facility for people with special needs. Some of them are mildly retarded or have gone through various traumas and lack social skills. They're grown-ups who can't fit into normal society, basically, and they either live there in this little 'village' or they live with their families/caretakers and come to this place to socialize and learn social skills. This is the second time Salsa-Mob has performed there but I wasn't a part of the group back then, so this week was my first time.
I was a little nervous at first because I don't do well with special-needs people. I get impatient with them and I really hate to do that to them, when it's not their fault at all. But thankfully it was really okay - half the time only us salsla people danced for them, as a performance, and they really enjoyed it. They clapped and smiled at us all the time, some of them danced in their seats. And half the time we danced with them, not salsa moves obviously but just normal dancing and jumping around, and they joined in on that. They all had a really good time and so did we. We even did line-dancing, like Son Latinos (which I'm finally getting the hang of; somehow I never learned that dance) and Tarkan's Start the Fire (which I am now addicted to).
This isn't us, but it's the dance we did:
After the dancing ended we took a group photo, which will later be hung up in the kitchen of the village along with 4 years' worth of artists who have come and performed as volunteers there. We got a diploma and a mug full of candy as a thank-you, it was really sweet. We'll probably go perform there again!
After the volunteer dancing about 8 of us went to a pub nearby and celebrated one of the girls' birthday which was that night. We had a few drinks and snacks and lit firecrackers for her, it was so much fun :D Ron was among the guys and I suddenly had the idea of setting him up with my best friend H. She needs a sweet, laid-back guy, and I think Ron would be perfect for her. I asked her and she said cool, and I asked him and he said maybe. I pushed the subject just a tiny little bit, and now I'm leaving it up to him until the weekend.
Last night (monday) I went out with K to a pub and we played bingo XD Unfortunately we didn't win anything, except for a chaser of Feigling, but then the bingo itself cost the same as the shots so whatever. It was the Jewish love-holiday so I wore red and I got a rose and we took silly pictures :
I think I'm gonna stop going to pubs with only one friend, though, it's no fun. It's okay as a big group, and much better if it's outside (like saturday and sunday) but just 2 girls inside a pub, with all the cigarette smoke and the loud music... I keep going and hoping to enjoy it but always end up disappointed. So no more! Only as a group! :)
Today I met up with my sister Roni for lunch, which is looooooong overdue. It was supposed to be two weeks ago but she was sick so we rescheduled. We had burgers (not fast-food burgers but real prime beef - lentils for my sister, who's vegitarian) and then coffee for desert, and a tiny little bit of shopping... I bought our eldest sister a skirt for her upcoming birthday. Then I headed to work for the evening shift, which was thankfully quiet and peaceful. Morning shifts (which is what I'm working the rest of the week) are hell :(
Tomorrow (Wednesday) there's a new salsa club opening and we're ALLLLLL going :D Should be fun. And Thursday one of my cousins is getting married! And on Friday morning my parents are taking us out to brunch with Roni's BF who is soon moving in with her. And god only knows what I'll be doing on Friday night and on Saturday!
I..... am very very tired. And the week is only half-way through! :O
On Friday I went with K and another girl to a different salsa club that my usual one, in Tel-Aviv this time. It's basically a dance studio with 6 separate rooms, very big, lots of space. One room is LA salsa, one is Cuban, and other rooms are other various Latin dance styles. I only danced in the LA room, and I was having a sort of boring time at first, and then... suddenly, Noam. I was taken aback, quite literally - I took a step backwards and went "WTF??" inside my head, and K later told me that I had this really shocked look on my face as well. I was thinking, oh, great, the first time I EVER go to a new salsa place... and boom, he shows up. Gah! But I still got that little thrill in my chest at seeing him. Aaaand I danced with him. For like 10 minutes straight. And it was really fun. There were some good songs, and I got in some really good moves (including one that might have made him spring a boner, it's this really sexy move and I couldn't resist trying it on him! :P He seemed to like it...)
Not very good photos of me (my lace top kept slipping! XD ) but just so there's proof I was there and I had fun:
I danced with other guys over the rest of the night, and I had a pretty good time. It was the first time I'd seen K since she'd gone abroad almost 3 weeks earlier, and it was fun catching up. Only last night she told me that she thought maybe I was the reason Noam had come to that club - he never used to go there before. She said that the day we went, he invited her to the beach. Which made her go WTF? because ever since he dumped me they haven't been talking at all. Which makes sense, since K and I are such good friends. She told him she couldn't go to the beach because she was going to the salsa club. So... she thinks that he guessed I'd be going with her and came too, because of me. And now I'm all confused again >_<
Never mind! I don't wanna think about him. On Saturday of the salsa friends invited me out with them, just to this little pub in their neighborhood. It was fun, but a little boring, so we went out for ice-cream after that XD It was just me, Ron the salsa photographer, another guy I've become friends with since a recent salsa-birthday-party, and another girl. I'm becoming very close with Ron, he's such a sweet guy. I used to think he had a crush on me but now I know we're just friends, and he's a great guy to be friends with. We dance almost every night at the salsa parties and he's now discovered that he can argue about comic-hero movies with me so he's sort of in frends-love with me :)
On Sunday we had a Salsa-Mob event and it was SO MUCH FUNNNN. It was at a place that was something between a youth-center and a hostel or live-in care-facility for people with special needs. Some of them are mildly retarded or have gone through various traumas and lack social skills. They're grown-ups who can't fit into normal society, basically, and they either live there in this little 'village' or they live with their families/caretakers and come to this place to socialize and learn social skills. This is the second time Salsa-Mob has performed there but I wasn't a part of the group back then, so this week was my first time.
I was a little nervous at first because I don't do well with special-needs people. I get impatient with them and I really hate to do that to them, when it's not their fault at all. But thankfully it was really okay - half the time only us salsla people danced for them, as a performance, and they really enjoyed it. They clapped and smiled at us all the time, some of them danced in their seats. And half the time we danced with them, not salsa moves obviously but just normal dancing and jumping around, and they joined in on that. They all had a really good time and so did we. We even did line-dancing, like Son Latinos (which I'm finally getting the hang of; somehow I never learned that dance) and Tarkan's Start the Fire (which I am now addicted to).
This isn't us, but it's the dance we did:
Click to viewAfter the dancing ended we took a group photo, which will later be hung up in the kitchen of the village along with 4 years' worth of artists who have come and performed as volunteers there. We got a diploma and a mug full of candy as a thank-you, it was really sweet. We'll probably go perform there again!
After the volunteer dancing about 8 of us went to a pub nearby and celebrated one of the girls' birthday which was that night. We had a few drinks and snacks and lit firecrackers for her, it was so much fun :D Ron was among the guys and I suddenly had the idea of setting him up with my best friend H. She needs a sweet, laid-back guy, and I think Ron would be perfect for her. I asked her and she said cool, and I asked him and he said maybe. I pushed the subject just a tiny little bit, and now I'm leaving it up to him until the weekend.
Last night (monday) I went out with K to a pub and we played bingo XD Unfortunately we didn't win anything, except for a chaser of Feigling, but then the bingo itself cost the same as the shots so whatever. It was the Jewish love-holiday so I wore red and I got a rose and we took silly pictures :
I think I'm gonna stop going to pubs with only one friend, though, it's no fun. It's okay as a big group, and much better if it's outside (like saturday and sunday) but just 2 girls inside a pub, with all the cigarette smoke and the loud music... I keep going and hoping to enjoy it but always end up disappointed. So no more! Only as a group! :)
Today I met up with my sister Roni for lunch, which is looooooong overdue. It was supposed to be two weeks ago but she was sick so we rescheduled. We had burgers (not fast-food burgers but real prime beef - lentils for my sister, who's vegitarian) and then coffee for desert, and a tiny little bit of shopping... I bought our eldest sister a skirt for her upcoming birthday. Then I headed to work for the evening shift, which was thankfully quiet and peaceful. Morning shifts (which is what I'm working the rest of the week) are hell :(
Tomorrow (Wednesday) there's a new salsa club opening and we're ALLLLLL going :D Should be fun. And Thursday one of my cousins is getting married! And on Friday morning my parents are taking us out to brunch with Roni's BF who is soon moving in with her. And god only knows what I'll be doing on Friday night and on Saturday!
I..... am very very tired. And the week is only half-way through! :O