DOING THE BUNNY HOP

Dancing the Night Away.

We are doing the Waltz here. An opportunity to go dancing last weekend came to us from a Chinese Medical Doctor (Adam) and his wife (could be Eve). They picked us up in their "summer car" and drove us up to a new high rise apartment complex with a club house. There Paula and Richard Watkins and we enjoyed a Dance Night in China.

DANCING THE NIGHT AWAY -- Well until 10 pm.`

The above is the "Bunny Hop" kind of a conga line dance.

This is Adam and Eve. They were so kind to us and really a lot of fun. The really like to dance. Their friends, relatives, and family also came to enjoy the activity and to sing and dance.

Dana got into helping this young lady look good. She made some bows and bright colored silk hair adornments for her to dance with. She liked it and she looked good.

This is were you dance in the round, round and round and round, I think...It was fun though. Everyone did it.

Here, Paula teaches the dance where you flail the silk scarves around while sort of flaunting it or strutting your stuff. Scarf strutting, flailing and flaunting caught on quickly.

Richard and I did a pretty raucous rendition of the "Twist" -- like we did last summer -- Twist again...and again...and again... Boy was I twisted up the next day. My back was sore for two more days. But I have fully recovered now. Richard had no ill effects. Of course, that could be because he is in better physical shape. Oh yah, Richard is 75 years old!

Dana had some of her students over to our apartment to ice the star sugar cookies for the campus student fund raiser for the dought victims in southern China. Millions of people are without water there. It is a biblical dought/famine.

Dana made up a treasure trove of sugar cookies, banana bread, cinnamon rolls and small loaves of bread. Then the students iced the cookies and took all of that stuff over to the central campus to give away with a small donation to for the thirsty drought victims, which in the final analysis was all coordinated through the international Red Cross.

There was a lot of stuff... The banana bread loaves are inside the aluminum foil wraps.

Dana and I were invited to go to one of the best elementary schools in Jinan where we taught two classes the he, she and it English lesson (Pronouns) to these eager students. They were so excited, even hyper agitated. Their teacher had to get after them for their misbehavings. But I also played: "Oh Suzanna" on my little harmonica for their entertainment and they all knew that song. The visit was a hit.

Dana taught the pronouns and demonstrated them with real people... Look closely at their faces to see their sincere delight at our visit. You would think that we were some kind of celebrity.

Richard and I rehearse for our planned wind instrument show later on this month. Richard plays the imaginary trombone and I play and imaginary trumpet. We sound pretty good with these two unique instruments, harmonizing like we try to do...

Richard actually plays the clarinet and very well as a former college (USU) music teacher, so this one was not imaginary. Dana and I found this tie for him when we were shopping in Hong Kong. It really suits him doesn't it!

And now link to the Bunny Hop video clip below. The person in the front of the line is supposed to be the leader right? Dancing is Fun!