I watched a documentary just the other day, about Ancient Egypt and her apocalypse. It reminded me of why I fell in love with Ancient history in the first place. It's a beautiful place to llose yourself in, after all, you are witnessing the demise of someone other than yourself. You know that there is someone worse than you.

Alright, that part was just a sort of joke. I love the culture and things that people had discovered in the past, that's probably why i find it so fascinating. It reminds me of why I want to travel the world in the first place.

I would move from Greece to Italy to Spain, to Germany, to Austria! Anywhere that is within my reach! I want to know everything about them and their culture!

Then, moving on to my reminiscing.

I actually used to learn Latin Dance. As in, the choreographed Cha-Cha, Jive, Rumba, Bachata, and a little of the watchamacallit? Never mind... I think it was the Salsa or something. (Somehow, salsa reminds me chilli.)

Anyway, my point is that Latin Dance can do wonders to your sense of modesty. I used to be this really really conservative girl who did not believe in showing too much skin, but Dance changed all that. After awhile, I really dared to bare. I could wear short-skirts and walk around without a qualm, and then dance and allow it to flair up (of course there were shorts beneath).

Then comes the competition dresses. Of course, around here, there aren't many makers of DanceSport costumes. In fact, in my entire dance school there was only one. It was a tailor-made or hand-made-but-off-the-shelf kind of thing. Everything was made by thta woman, and then she would import materials from Japan and charge a bomb fo it. A (small)simple skimpy dress could cost $360, and a full costume (that also didn't have much material) costs over a thousand dollars.

These items are rip-offs, but if they made you noticable in the championships, then it was worht it, I suppose. I never had a real costume, just a two-piece that was made to match some ugly thing. So, with my parents' wedding anniversary coming up early next year, I was hoping I could get a nice costume made for myself.

Right. Enough with the frivolous rambling.... But that is all I have for today.