Why I dance...

When my body is in motion, nothing exists except the music, the drums, the dance floor and/or my dance partner. I hear the music, no matter what it always calls my name and takes me to places I only saw in my dreams.

I dance to feel free, to forget about life's day to day grind, to relax the thoughts that go through my head. I let go, I feel the rhythm, la clave, el yubá the trumpets, the voice that sings of love, lovers lost and lovers found, the sounds of a revolution, el sonido de la libertad. I dance because I carry a song with every beat of my heart. I dance to smile, to laugh, to cry...to feel every emotion in 10 minutes...and sometimes less. I dance because my entire being tells me it's what I was meant to do, what I was supposed to do...what life tells me to do. I dance...I dance...I dance because in every dance there is a prayer....I dance, because dancing is praying with your feet, your hips, your legs and mostly your heart....

I am done!

Wooohooo! I cannot believe I finished! Last night's craziness...yeah it's gone right now. I finished my final project and with plenty of time for me to actually go to sleep and rest :) To what I owe this success...why to Edith Piaf! Her songs helped me stay relaxed and not give up! Plus her voice just gives me chills when I hear it. To me it's funny, that even though I don't speak any French (ok some lilttle key words), but ever since I was little, I knew she was greatness and growing up, language was not an obstacle for me to understand her sorrow, pain, and joy, truly that's why I LOVE music so much.  I can sing L'hymn a L'amour (Ode to Love) perfectly and the 1st time I heard it...well lets just say I knew exactly what she was saying...of course then my Spanish kicked in and I was able to translate the whole thing mentally (yes, if you speak a romance language you are able to do this with other romance languages) Here is La Piaf singing: Amazing right? Her voice was very unusual, but yet so beautiful.

I must keep going!

Oh lord...I am still awake and busting my butt doing school stuff. Why you may ask? Well 'cause there's a Culinary Fest going on from tomorrow (well today) til Sunday and I wanna go! Finishing this stupid project, or at least almost finishing will enable me to get some ceviche, marsala potatoes and whatever else I find appealing.

With that said, I cannot wait to hand in this project, particularly since the...we shall call him "special person" professor left NO F*^&$#@^ GUIDELINES FOR ANY OF US TO FOLLOW and actually have a remote idea of what the heck it is we're doing! I had to do a survey to 50 people, but I have to put in charts or tables every single answer...all for me to get an A, I'm such a nerd. After all the precious sleep I'm losing...he better give me an A! You want proof I am going bonkers? There it is...
Anyways, I gotta keep going!