As I'm sure most of you know, Jo and I are joined at the hip. We started teaching recently and work as a team together. We thought it would be a nice idea to teach each of our classes a different choreography and then get them to dance for each other...and so the first ever hafla was conceived. We panicked that no-one would want to come to our party, as the week before the event we had only sold 30 tickets. Turns out on Saturday night we had 150 people there and by the time we finished paying for the venue/food etc, we had a clear £600 to donate to Action Cancer. We kicked the night off with a comedy stick duet so that our girls would feel at ease...false moustaches acting as armpit hair poking out of my lovely dress :-)

What really made the night was a chap Joanna works with brought all his Lebanese friends with him, families and all. A couple of the guys were musicians and as luck would have it they had their instruments in the car so we had authentic LIVE music...the place was rocking!! I'm not sure how we are going to top that one but we are going to give it a try ;-)

I don't what I ever did with my time before I started dancing all of two years ago.....and I don't know what I would do without my "wife" Jo. Life is good! I am now in collapse mode now the adrenalin of organising and performing has subsided.