POST by RENZ: Just Dance!

Yesterday was Friday, and every Friday is always the craziest day of all because we have school in the morning and at night we have our youth group for the community.

Nica´s are very good at dancing and they love to do it. At youth group, we have different activities that the people can do. We also have competitions and yesterday we had a dancing competition.

The different types of dancing that they could do were break dancing, Latino dancing, or techno.

The week before, we had put flyers out and told everyone about it. Also we had sheets of paper for people to sign up and some people signed up but hardly anybody wanted to. I think they didn’t want to because are shy and nine out of ten people here are guys so they did not have many partners to go with.

The event started out pretty good. We had Alex (the dude that was going to be the DJ) and he had all the music that we wanted or so he said.

We went to a school because we wanted to ask them if they could come and do their independence dance for the opening of the competition. We talked to the director of the school but he said that the instruments could not be used for something outside of school at short notice and that in three weeks they could do their presentation.

We went home and everyone was cleaning the house. I started making dinner but then my dad had just got back from the store and had bought enchiladas for everyone so we ate that instead.

Then we all got ready for the night and made posters for the people that were going to compete.

All of a sudden the power went out and everyone is shouting and screaming. Then, a few minutes later, the power came back on and we were so grateful because youth group was just about to start.

Everyone went outside and the doors to the house were locked. People were swimming in the pool and playing soccer and we were just about to start the competition when the power went out again.

Somebody got cut on their foot from the pool and so my mum had to go into the house and get her ¨medical supplies¨. We were losing our crowd and the only thing that we could do was wait.

Finally the power came back on and so we started the competition.

The first type of dance was break dance. It was only the tricksters/break dancing dudes that participated. Jonny obviously won. He's very good at dancing.

Techno was the second thing and only Rene and Beycker were the only people that danced for that and Rene won.

For Latino dancing a bunch of people danced but only a few got into it.

So far, it was a disaster. When my mum wanted Alex to say something in the microphone, he didn’t do it and so she would have to do it but she doesn’t know that much Spanish so it was a fail.

Some of my sisters and my friends which are twins had done a routine with some other friends of ours and that was really cool because it made everyone excited and it made the night not turn out as bad as it would have been if they did not do their dance routine.