Separation Anxiety Starting to Rear Up

Serious Separation Anxiety- only 2 More Days- But What a Night at Ideal
Since we’ve had no water for 3 days we’re a bit grungy. At home, I’d be mad and trying to control it all- phone calls, more phone calls and using my “in charge” manner that I leave behind when we live, notice I didn’t say visit, in BsAs. After a 3:00 AM turn-in, a shower would have been a nice change, but I’d rather NEVER have another shower then return to the life in PA where we busily push to exist in the phony fast-paced world I don’t understand.
Andrew danced with Stella at the Dandi. -moved at a quiet, graceful even pace and on the beat. His first lesson in Argentina and I don’t think it will be his last.
Andi danced with Pablo and floated. Mike and I stumbled along wrestling with each other-too much thinking about the new way of walking. Luckily we know our next few months at home will bring all the lessons together and the dance will flow again.
After 3 hours of Stella and a quick Musel dinner we headed for the show at Confiteria Ideal. Gustavo’s mom was there to see him too. Also talked to Eduardo, Kikki and Silvana.
Headed up to the milonga. Cecilia showed up because she heard we were there. CJ, Andi and Andrew got to meet our instructors and then they put on a show for us with 5 or 6 amazing tangos. Every day here I say to Mike, “This is the best day of my life.” The candy store winds down on Tuesday.

Our Last Night in Clarks Summit

It doesn't get any better than this night. Tina, who is a natural, came first. This gave us about 30 minutes to walk, do torso and balance work. She just soaks it all up and transfers all the learning directly to movement. I tell her something simple- something like, "Watch that your foot doesn't turn in when you step and for the rest of the night she turns her feet out. This puzzles me. How does she do that? I can't wait until this summer when we open our tent and we can practice all we know. I love and respect her ability to learn. Matt came next. A total of 7 couples on the floor at one time. Right before Cathy left I made a video of her tango with Mike. This man is amazing.
He's right up there with the best. A little like Carlito Perez and Gustavo ZAid. My milonguero after only 3 years of hard and dedicated work.
At 8:30 we played "A Juan Carlos Copes", my favorite milonga because it's short and jaunty and Mike can make it through the entire 83 seconds. Matt, Matt, Suz and Tina helped us pack up the tables and chairs. With a little help coming our way we can dismantle the dance floor and put it away in the morning. One more private lesson with Vince on Thursday. One more tango workshop on Saturday with Joaquin Canay and we're ready for tango in the deep deep south. That 11 hour plane ride just doesn't see so long when the real dance awaits.