The Hoedown

Last Friday almost everyone from our class went to an event called the hoedown. It's basically a traditional american get together where you display square dance skills. Talk Time had arranged this event. Talk Time is occupied by arranging all kinds of event for international students in the area.  It was held at a big church in the town Bothell about 15 miles from Lynnwood. When we came there were led to different tables. Each table had their own leader to "take care" of everything. A band (professional or unprofessional was hard to tell) was playing some classic country songs to set the mood among the all the participants of this event. A pretty sloppy BBQ was served, but for only seven bucks you couldn't expect more, before the dancing part of the event. Then it came to the exciting part, the square dance. The claimed "experienced" dancers showed us how to dance, even though they actually messed it up. All 200 people at the event gathered in three big circles. The dancers had a failed attempt trying to make all of us do the same at the same time while doing it right. I was the only one in the class that didn't get a partner from within our class (typical) but i got a sweet girl from Japan, Jasmine, as partner. We quickly formed groups of eight for us to dance in so we could attempt to dance square dance the way it's supposed to be danced. Even though no one really was brilliant at it we had a lot of fun, partly because we messed up more than we did good. It was definitely a fun night with almost everyone from 2.y.