This is my second attempt at writing this post since my first one fell foul of a series of unfortunate incidents. If this isn't a very exciting post, remember, the first one was better!
I was reading through my last few posts and a high proportion are about food (only one a week though!) but I'm seriously not *as* obsessed with it as the blog may appear. I've been doing other stuff! Honest! I prove it to you.
Choir
So, Ozgrl is a *huge* choir geek. She is seriously into choirs and has been from a young age. She is in 2 choirs back in Oz (secretary and founding member of one of them) and in a recent 3 month stint in Canada, joined a choir there and is planning to return and tour with them next year. Thus, when she arrived in Cork one of the first things she did was join a choir to join (and volunteer for the Choral festival). She then convinced me (not that difficult) to join too. It's a non-auditioned choir, so pretty cas, but everyone is very nice and friendly.
We rehearse on Tuesday nights and tomorrow we will be singing Schubert's Mass (in G, I think) at the North Cathedral. We didn't have enough time to learn a too many new hymns, so one is a hymn set to Danny Boy. We've already been practising Danny Boy for an upcoming concert/social thing. Yeah... you can't really get more stereotypical Irish than Danny Boy. It's enough to make me want to start drinking Guinness ;)
Next Tues is the last rehearsal before the choir breaks for summer. I probably won't join up again in Sept as I want to keep our time then free for overseas travel etc. Also, Ozgirl is leaving back for Oz at the end of this month (she's touring with one of her regular choirs back in Oz) so I'll won't have my choir buddy anyway.
Swing and other dancing
Beau and I have done 4 weeks of a 10 week Swing class. We're enjoying it heaps and this week we learned and worked on a bunch of linking moves. We can go from face to face turning into side to side, do some moves (eg Charleston, Kick the Dog, Pulse kick), go back to facing and do a few different moves and spins from there too. It's neat being able to do little routines! Beau also asked and got extra tips on signalling/leading. My special things to work on this week (the teacher gives me extra instruction 'cause I'm special) is keeping my weight low and not using my hips too much. This isn't Salsa!
Beau and I always try to start dancing with each other, but this doesn't usually last very long as the teacher will soon call for the "followers" (can't say girls/ladies etc as some are being leads) to move onto the next lead. IMHO Beau is pretty much the best lead in our class (not counting teachers and "senior students"). I'm sure this has nothing to do with the fact that we get to practise outside of class together ;)
I've already been to two of the regular Swing socials that they have in Cork. This Sunday I will probably be going to Suzy Q, which is a combined Swing and Salsa social and it starts with an open lesson in swing and in salsa. I've already done the open lesson before, but I'll probably do it again, just cause I like dancing class. Beau hasn't been to any due to work commitments, but I should see people from class there to dance with and I'll also lean on Ozgrl to come with me. That girl can't resist an opportunity to salsa.
Also, assuming that Beau doesn't get offered excessive amounts of money to work, we're going to attend a Salsa dancing bootcamp. 5hours a day of dancing. Awesome! That's a few weekends away, so we shall see.
Theatre
Neid, one of my new Cork buddies, is a total performance chickie ;) She's is currently performing in a one act play. Beau and I got a ride of Fotalad last night and went. She was fab! Her role was quite an emotional one and she totally had me buying into it. It was "pub theatre", taking place in the back room of a country pub about 30min out of Cork city. Theatre is always more fun when you get to eat and drink ;) There were two plays and I enjoyed the other one too (the second one was more of a comedy and the lead female was especially good). Beau hasn't been able to do the weekend social stuff that I've been doing so this was one of his first chances to meet some of the other people in Mytholders friend's group that I've been introduced too.
As you can see, I do *lots* :)
Point of Fashion: late night last night
Current Obsession: Beau has work in CORK!!