Friday, March 5, 2010

¡Si se puede salsa!

So I have finally mastered the basics steps of salsa! Gracias to my lovely baile popular teacher last night, the three basic steps of salsa are drilled into my head,including the(what was for me) surprising fourth "pause" step in salsa, which I was completely ignorant of and was probably why I failed so miserably in my previous salsa attempts :)All together a pretty cool night, learned salsa and then walking to the bus stop with two fellow gringas we ran in to a free concert on campus. Pretty legit concert, lights, a stage, mosh pit and crowds of people being watched by security, I saw two fights break out in the twenty minutes I watched. The music was good, kinda rock, with some other unidentifiable influences, you had the basic two guitar and a drummer set up backed up by three horns, which made for an awesome sound. There are a lot of live music shows at the campus (Universidad Nacional Autonoma), a lot of lunch time performers with a casual set up by the cafeteria, and this concert was the second big one I've stumbled across in the school´s plaza. I love live music, I just wish I had any clue ahead of time when bands were performing. The school and Costa Rica in general don´t really try to advertise events and websites here are generally useless when it comes to correct and up-to-date information. Oh well, guess it just means I can look forward to a few more surprise concerts in the future, not a bad deal :)

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