Hip Hop Dance Lessons

My husband and I belong to a couple’s group at our church. This is a group of people that have strong committed relationships and meet with the couples that are planning to get married. When a couple comes to the pastor to make plans for their wedding they are given a relationship inventory. The questions are in several different areas including finances, child rearing, faith, extended family, and recreation. Each individual takes the survey, which is scored electronically. The results are then given to one of the couples in our group. We meet with the two that are planning on getting married and discuss the results. This is a very rewarding process for the young couple as well as the mentoring couple.

The group of us that do the marriage preparation meet once a month to discuss the couples we are were working with. We also socialize. One of the women in our group suggested that we all take dance lessons together through community education. She has wanted to do this for years and her husband has refused. She thought if we would take the dance lessons as a group he would be willing to take them. All the women in the group thought this would be great fun. The men were reluctant to agree, but after a great deal of coaxing and some whining, they finally agreed.

The dance lessons that we signed up for were for ballroom dancing. The instructor was very pleased when we came to class. There are six couples in our group. The instructor and his wife have been offering the dance lessons for several years and usually only have two or three couples that sign up. When he found out we all knew each other he agreed that this was going to be a great deal of fun.

The dance lessons began the first night with learning how to waltz. The instructor and his wife first danced a waltz with us watching. We then joined them on the dance floor and tried to imitate the steps. There was a great deal of laughing and teasing amongst the men in the group. Each time it seemed like we were making progress someone would stop dancing because they were laughing so hard. The instructor told us that he had once held dance lessons for a group in junior high school and we were not as well behaved.

By the third week of the dance lessons we were more comfortable with the process and found that we were enjoying the moves. We were suppose to learn five basic dances during the course of the lessons, but due to the amount of laughing and teasing we only mastered three dances.