I'm officially OLD

I've now been on earth over a half century, I hope I can remember how to get to the Kern County Fairgrounds to call the KickOff Dance for the Fiesta- Looking forward to dancing with Lynn all weekend-Hope to see you there!!!

MS Bakersfield DanceShop is a Fond Memory

Well the 3 weeks are up, and we had such fun and made great progress in ensuring that
the folks will not get "kicked in the ass" at Fiesta- Now the group still has work to do on a few calls, but most importantly we built CONFIDENCE and gave the RECOVERY tools needed to suceed at a California MainStream hall(Fiesta in this case)-They're looking forward to it and some are looking to attend the State Convention as well-Now sadly -I can't believe how close the majority of these kids were to qutting- Complaints (about the class they started with) ranged from "The caller doesn't answer questions" to "How come 2 hours at DanceShop seems short, when after a half hour at class we want to leave" to my SAD favorite (I mentioned 1 particular class is dark this week-Not that the sponsors bothered to tell the folks who missed).......When I annouced they were dark, From the floor in a loud voice "who cares we don't learn a damn thing there"- The rest of the gang nodded in agreement- How in the hell do some of these clubs expect to retain new dancers??????????? Or are they on a whining death wish?- I suspect that the latter is closer to the truth
Nauseated
Rick

Staying Positive

Ok
I'm POSITIVE that the folks making a 3 hour round trip to get proper instruction should not have to (I'm glad they're coming down) I'm also POSITIVE that these folks (numerically the majority of this particular club) deserve better. I'm also POSITIVE that this club will fold unless the the "political types" get their head out of dark places. I'm also POSITIVE that won't happen without some folks quitting MWSD- Finally I'm POSITIVE that this is POSITIVELY a bad thing
Caller Run groups are the only future-CERTAINLY
PS it was a fun nite for all-I hope they don't quit dancing
Rick

Fun and Bummed

A GREAT weekend for dancer success- The Friday MS Danceshop in Bakersfield was well attended, with the largest group coming from a club whose president said "no one will pay ten bucks"- and threw the flyers away -GET A CLUE, The Clovis Danceshop expansion was great- Lotsa fun and good full speed progress at both!!!!!
Bummed.........................I got an AARP card in the mail
Rick