up-date

soooooooo... also here in the American mid-west I already found a couple of nice people. Some Italians, some international, no American. Here the weather is freezing, always below zero, and since yesterday it's snowing a little. At the weekend I'll hopefully go and watch an ice hockey game. I wanted to watch baseball or football, but they're not playing in this season. And I finally found the bug in my program....at least one bug :) and I'm falling...

do you have it?

Do you also have a passion that you used to practice when you were a child? Then you gave up. For many different reasons. But you always regretted that choice.

Maybe it was more than one passion. And I'm not referring to the one that you gave up because it was boring for you. I refer to that instrument, sport, game that used to relax you and make you feel special, in harmony with nature around you.

For me that was jazz dance. I gave up when I was 10 because when there was dance class I had to go to school, on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. I would anyway not have had the right "body", but I was good and I had a lot of fun. It was me and the music and the steps, that after some time you can dance automatically, without thinking, and you just have to remember to smile and enjoy.

I never thought about that. maybe my habit to be always smiling comes from dancing. The teacher often told us to be smiling!

After that, years later, I started again attending aerobics and step classes, again music, again rhythm. I always like this kind of things. And now I'm attending again a jazz dance class :)

cheers!

Now everything is clear. Yesterday I got to my hotel in Daytona Beach and my floor was crowded with young teenagers, cheerleaders. I thought "How lucky I am: my first time in the US and I can see them". This morning I went down to the beach and there were another couple of groups of cheerleaders taking photos. Then I walked to the city centre and it was crowded with little girls, teenagers and mothers....all dressed like cheerleaders, some were training and stretching.

Now I came back to the hotel and read
The State Cheer & Dance Championships
January 9 -11, 2009
Daytona Beach, Florida

...everything is clear now!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZyAXvtawEU