Monday, July 13, 2009

Shake your booty

One of the organizations we work with has created a dance group that performs traditional dances at weddings, etc to earn money for school fees. One afternoon they treated us to a private little performance. It was awesome. All the dances consist of shaking your hips/booty the entire time. I was sweating just sitting there, and they were dancing like that for almost an hour! It was really fun to see. Some of them played drums while others danced, and then they switched - they really did have alot of talent. Afterwards, they made us put on the hairy butt things and tried to teach us how to dance. . . I think it was a good laugh for all involved.
As an aside, this performance was taking place in someone's "yard", and so the music of the drums echoing off the adobe house drew quite the audience from the neighborhood. These kids were the cutest . . . The older sister was trying to get her little sister to put some clothes on while the brother was trying to get them to be quiet and quit drawing attention.
Finally the big sister puts lil sis on her back and brother tries to help. Useless, they leave for a few minutes . . .
and return with at least a skirt on the little one. They were so sweet.

1 comment:

emily said...

so cute, mindy. thanks for sharing all the sweet memories you made while there. what a neat, neat thing.