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Week 34- Y4(Nov 2nd to Nov 8th) |
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Sunday:
Tonight we had a celebratory dinner for the Grateful Dead crew. Fun group, I hope we all manage to find the time to still hang out with eachother!
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Monday (Nov. 3):
Man, I feel like it's 1 step forward, 3 steps back. Today I feel terrible, and I can barely walk. Every time I get my hopes up that I'm getting better, I feel way worse the next day. What am I doing wrong? How did all of this happen in the first place? Why does my physio therapist tell me that certain spinal discs are pressing against others, thus pinching nerves and creating pain, when the MRI showed nothing? Did they just not look closely enough? I'm so confused about all of this, and I wish I could just get some concrete information about what's actually wrong with me, and why this all happened.
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Friday:
Right now, there's a very famous bachata instructor in town named Jorge Elizondo. He's going to be doing 3 days of workshops at our studio! Bachata is a slow, sensual, very close dance that originates from the Dominican Republic. I was so upset that I couldn't participate in the workshops, but I figured I could at least watch and memorize to practise later when I'm better. But that plan was almost foiled: it's Jorge's policy not to let anyone just observe the class. I understood where he was coming from; after all he makes his living travelling from country to country,and if people don't pay for the workshop, he's the one who loses out. But on the other hand, I'm injured! So he wanted me to leave, but Helen and Joey totally stood up for me, and refused to let me leave. I was really worrried that Jorge would get angry at them, but by the end of the class I had managed to charm him so much that he's letting me come to the other classes for free as
well! It can be really helpful to have big eyes sometimes . . . After class, we all went out to Hollywoods for drinks and food, and then to Caliente for dancing (for them not me!). By the end of the night, I had charmed Jorge so much that now he actually has a crush on me! Ha. I miss dancing so much, and I learned tons just by watching the workshop tonight. I can't wait until I'm actually well enough to do it. I feel like I made a lot of progress this week, and I'm hoping it's going to stay that way. I'm cautiously optimistic.
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Saturday:
Another day of watching bachata classes, and hanging out with Jorge and the dancers. I realized today how much I miss spending time with Chris, who's one of my best friends, and one of the few people I know here that consistently knows how to make me laugh. It's kind of tough with the dancer friends, cause they always want to go dancing, and it just kind of makes me feel sad to watch people dancing and not be able to do it. So I didn't go to Caliente tonight, but I did go up to Stompers, where Summer and Cain were hosting the first session of the Battle of the Bands. It was packed, and there were a lot of people I knew there, but it was just so smoky and loud, and none of the bands were very good, so I left pretty early.
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