Friday Night Dance off

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Friday night we met up with Charlie and Nancy from group 19A. We went down to a small beach near the Waterfront restaurant. Charlie and Nancy put together a small picnic of cheese and crackers, and tapanade. They also brought some glasses to pour the Provenance 2004 Merlot in to (tank yu tumas bak bakagen Aunt Diane!!) We sat there enjoying the wine and company until we headed over to the Waterfront for dinner. The Waterfront is one of my favorite places to go in Port Vila. They always have dinner music and it is open aired with a Natangora roof. So you are covered but still feel like you are out side and the fact that it is right next to the marina doesn’t hurt.


I decided that it was such a nice night that I would go all out and get the beef fillet. Mmmm,,,, was it good!!! Of course the conversation was free flowing and enlightening. Charlie and Nancy are such amazing people. After we ate and finished our last dinner drink, Charlie suggested we move into the bar area and maybe do little dancing. While I am not sure what there exact ages are I believe they are in there early fifties but dance and have fun like they are twenty.


I love the music here because it is fun stuff to dance too, olsem Carlos Santana and evri samting olsem. Well Bridget and I had been swinging to any song we could and getting a lot of complements from some people. There was another couple in there ripping it up as well. There style was much more structured then ours. Next thing I know me and Bridget are walking off the dance floor to catch our breaths and wipe the dripping sweat off our faces when the owner jumps up and grabs the microphone and sings out, “Okay folks! We are going to have a dance off here tonight with these two couples!”” As he is saying this he is pointing to us and the other couple.


It turns out that the other couple teaches various Latin dance classes, olsem the Salsa and tango. Well we got out there and gave it our all and the crowd called it a tie. So the owner bought us all Margaritas!!! After the dance I went over to say thank you to the owner and give him a hard time. He said “yeah, I know they are instructors and all, but they are just soo… well you guys are just so Free when you dance. You guys were so much better then them.” It was a nice compliment, but the other guys did have some cool moves. Afterwards we were storian with them and they said they want us to come to class so we can exchange some moves, because they did not know a lot of the swing moves we were doing.


Peace Corps has been such a crazy experience so far. I have my ups and I have my downs, but the one constant is that I am always amazed that right now, right here, this is my life, and I got to tell you it aint so bad!!!