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Thursday 23 October 2014

Landing in the puddle

That's incredible how the time runs fast! Ten days ago, on 14 October, I went for the first time to the rehearsal of the group of begginers. I remember I was quite nervous and uncertain. I wasn't sure, for exemple, if my clothes were appropiate (I mean, just my gym suit, not a special costume or something like that). The strees (although it was unjustified) usually makes us doubt about ourselves, our possibilities. So I struggle with myself, but I win one battle after another!

When the first class finished, there weren't a person happier than me in the group. I couldn't stop smiling and talking with my new friends about our impressions. I was excited about basic steps of krakowiak and oberek we just learned.

Today I'd like to discribe you the first one, calls hołubiec. It consists of jump and hit one foot with the other, but not at the place you're standing on. The jump must be to the right or to the left. The point of heaviness is the leg which only jump. The other leg gives the direction and it's this one which hit when it comes back to the straight position of your body. Do I make myself understood? Maybe it will be easier to show it on a video. So there you are, a short movie of the annual event Wytnij Hołubca whereby the folk groups teach people around the city to dance this step.


Ok, and what about the puddle and landing in it? That's just a consequence of excercise hołubiec also outside the gymnasium. One day I was coming back with my sister from the town centre and in the road very close to my house, where there weren't nobody, I decided to show her what I had learned. I don't know how I did it, but the first attempt did me land in the puddle in the middle of the road. And that's the first anecdote I can relate about my folk adventure :) Oh, I almost forget to thank my sister for help me get up, clean my clothes, bag and hair and disinfect my little wound... :) I love you very much, Misia!

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