<img class="alignright" title="Old Bulgarian Women in Traditional Costumes" src="http://www.eliznik.org.uk/Bulgaria/photos/Sop-1-6-95.JPG" alt="" width="292" height="450" />At school one of our PE teachers, offers a Bulgarian and Balkan Dance class to teachers and parents.  It meets twice a week after school.  I figured that it would be fun.  I also really like to dance.  But as fate would have it, I am not very good at it.

Yet.

I am not a quitter but after last night I am worried that I might never be very good at it.  Somehow I was always on the wrong foot or a step behind.  It felt kind of like I was at a bad aerobics class.  One where I had no idea what the steps were and so I just kept jumping around hoping that it wouldn't be too clear that I didn't know any of the moves.

<!--more-->The thing is I've never taken any formal dance classes where you have to remember steps and what not and I am afraid that maybe I won't be able to remember everything.  Yesterday I had a hard enough time with the forward, forward, forward, backward, forward, backward, cross your feet behind, in front and tap your heal or  jump all while moving your arms or not or clapping occasionally.

Luckily I have a pretty good sense of humor and a high threshold for embarrassment, pain and feeling foolish.  If not, I might not have made it the whole hour. It was pretty bad.

In fact it was so bad that one of the female PE teachers was asked to come and dance next to me.  She was really nice and encouraging in a good mix of Bulgarian and English.  Still, I am afraid it didn't help me very much.

All of this said, I am not giving up this easily.  Maybe I just need to walk the Bulgarian folk dance channel more or maybe if traditional folk dance doesn't work out for me I could take up chalga.  After last night's fiasco, I can't really imagine that chalga would be harder--it might be harder on myself esteem but what's a girl to do?