I learned:

I prefer men as teachers for seminars...Less gab more dance!

Beer is good before performance but not as good as Vodka.

Z is very nice to chat with.

Swords make very loud sounds when they crash to the floor in an art gallery! :)

I just thought is was hard to learn a VID choreo in a few weeks...It's even harder to learn in a couple of hours.

O. has a great skeleton bindi that I got away without buying!

4W puts on a great event!

Not as exciting but, then I'm not an exciting person, right?

NEXT!!!!

And if someone called and said, "Wa wa wa wa waaaaa"... it's Derf.

F does an insane baby crying impression.

M is full of knowledge. Need to pick her brain more.

When you put a wig and make-up on S, makes me want to hide my head in shame, lol.

NEXT!!!!!

I learned how to find the Arts Center in the dark

I learned F reminds me of Mary Pickford, and has future inlaws in Grand Prairie, so we'll get to see her more often.

I learned about Moroccan bachelorette parties.

I learned to trust my gut and to take my phone into the john for that all important phone call from O asking me at the last minute to play for M and L.

I learned that G loves public displays of affection before class.

There is also MORE.

Next......

Got one more!

B is a serious Uno player. Need to break out Uno Attack next year so O and I can take her on. Muhahaha, let the games begin.

next...

M. must have technical difficulties with her music every year. It's a tradition now.

I learned...

how much fun it is to mess with Texas!

brand new ways to use drinking straws from tales of Brazilian fart fetishists

all about Hot Carls and a feast fit for a king

that it seriously rocks when gorgeous bellydancers ask you to take another look at this thing on their boob

or when they streak through the house in little towels

and most especially when someone you love finds out they are cancer-free

exactly how much estrogen and progesterone can fit in one house

how many menstrual cycles can get kickstarted all on the same damn day, within the same hour

that even vegetarians eat beef in Texas

I owe Udit a drawing or poem for her book

that L and C would rile up a passel o' party crashing mischief if they lived in the same city

there is little or no sleep to be had at the bellydance compound

but we can apparently run on the bliss of late-night giggling and wit and stories and bonding for five days in a row as long as we have 500 pots of Laura's amazing coffee

bellydancers eat a LOT and make a blessed mess of dishes!

the real reason F is always disinfecting the kitchen counters

I will probably never make a living drawing self portraits on a Walgreen's post-it pad by gripping a gigantic green phallic pen in my non-dominant hand

I really might be the only one who believes I need makeup on all the time

wasabi chocolate is so good it makes me want to hump the air a little

there are few jobs on earth that could possibly be more awesome than assisting a famous bellydancer at her yummy workshops

Brandi and Nathan are actually the reason Texas is known for its hospitality

Git iyhn!

that no matter how many times I see bellydancers work their magic, they can always break my heart wide open, make me fall in love with them again, and make me weep, just by doing their thing

I learned that when a shiney bindi falls off during a dance, from the second row, to someone just a hair nearsighted, it looks like snot coming out of the dancer's nose.

BOOGER ON THE FLOOR!

Watch your step.

I learned...know now...knew:

L disappears to sleep.. amazing.
C is the perfect drinking buddy and will always have your back, even if he thinks his lines work.
N you are amazi....oh shut up!
B is da BESTEST ever and forever
Bonding happens quick at 3am after 3 days of sleep deprivation
Don't waste time on long hello's at Texas airports
In Texas they have super talented house cleaners
T is cool and electrifying on stage
U and K are fun to debauch with outdoors
Weddings are best crashed
B (the other B) Does look stunning with out make-up
But S looks stunning in make-up, better than most actually...bitch
A is talented smart and earthy, i love that.
I didn't want it to end, but i desperately needed sleep
F needs a personal booby-guard in haunted houses
Lick yur mamma is fun to sample
A long awaited sandwich can make you cream your panties
I still love L even though she beats me up


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