New Things and Old Things

    Last week was my last week of vacation before we go back to school. I start on Tuesday, so I have a couple more days, but my "extra" time is running out quickly. I also have no idea what I did this summer, because I seem to have had very little time. But to be fair, I went to Kentucky for 8 days (well, 7, we went to Philadelphia for one of the days we were supposed to be in Kentucky), I took a lot of Spanish lessons with a tutor and by doing that made a friend in Venezuela. I made some dolls, did some house cleaning/sorting projects, and I danced. I danced a lot. My friend, Kevin, and I started going down to the Garage on Tuesdays. It's about an hour away, in New Britain Connecticut, so it's not a place I can go during the school year. At least not until vacations. On Wednesdays I teach dance, or if there are no beginners I join the intermediate lesson, usually as a leader. I have also been taking lessons with my friend I made the doll of. I took a lot of dance lessons this summer. And I danced at a lot of socials, sometimes in new places. Last Sunday, I went down to The Assembly Room, also in New Britain Connecticut, with my friend, Martha. It was mostly salsa, but it was fun to go out dancing on a Sunday. Tuesday Kevin and I went to the Garage, Wednesday I was in an intermediate lesson as a leader, Thursday I had a private bachata lesson and then Thursday evening I went to New City Brewery for a kizomba lesson and Latin Dance social. I danced a lot this week. I am sore but happy. I won't have that much time to dance again for a while. I am not even sure how my Wednesday teaching is going to go, since I will finish at 9:30 and that is actually past my school-year bedtime. 

     A few weeks ago, Travis and I went to a bowling group through MCS. Travis and I went so we could see if he would enjoy the group. I also needed to meet the community helper, Joe, who would be looking out for Travis. We met Joe the second week, and his son Joey, and now Travis has an activity he can go to without me. Even though I give him his space when we go places (dancing or Barnes and Noble usually) it's good that he has something he can do completely without me. And he has some friends to hang out with. Plus he does really seem to like bowling. In the same way I like bowling. It's fun to see how many pins you can knock down, though we don't concern ourselves with things like the score. 

     Next Saturday is the first day of the Connecticut Renaissance Faire. And King Richard's Faire is starting at the same time, I think. I had always wanted to go to a Ren Faire and this past Spring I finally did. And then I found a lot more faires and went to as many as I could. I can't remember if I have talked about the faires at all, and I am too lazy to go and search to see if I have, but I do plan on posting about those at some point. Maybe even soon.