11/03/2024
The Ball Room Dance Instructor
Written by: Min Jeong Lee
They say when you are alone you can't develop as much alone as much as with a partner.
In the year 1991 I was watching TV and watched Sining in the Rain for the first time
He made tap dancing in the rain so much fun.
I wanted to try.
So I took a tap dancing class in the park district.
A girl I met at the Park District tap dancing class introduced me to her friend's Irish Tap Dancing Troup
I tried out for the Irish Tap Dancing Troup.
I didn't make it into the group but one of the Irish tap dance Troup Member introduced me to her mother
Who was a ballroom instructor.
I took Ballroom Dance lessons from this lady that I got introduced to.
It was a bit awkward but I learned lessons of ballroom dance lessons from middle aged 60 year old lady
We were arm in arm dancing together to different steps to different music
I was 40 year old I quit my job because I got bored of working in the same industry for 20 years of fashion Boutique shops
I didn't know what to do.
Then On television it was Saint Patrick's day parade schedule was being shown on the news
I decided to go with my family.
A gigantic balloon of Lucky Charms Cereal Leprechaun passed by eating cereal
It was the same girls I met at the Irish Tap dance troop they were performing in the parade.
Then a little boy said they got funny hair.
The little girl said so they can tap dance better than you, you don't even know how to tap dance
I wasn't saying it to be mean.
I meant they got funny hair, it looks funny.
The little girl said, I guess They dance funny too.
I went home to my apartment in the city and i looked for songs to dance to.
I eventually became not a Irish Tap dancer and not a ballroom dance instructor
I became a Disk Jockey (a deeJay) music player for Wedding ballroom dance floor parties
I had a lot of fun eventually that's how I met my husband too, I was working at a wedding after party as a Disk Jockey
Then I got a request from some young man and that young man asked me slow dance with him to an Ed Sheeran Song
I gave him ballroom dance step lessons
We eventually started making our own music from scratch.
(the author of this story Min Jeong Lee took a painting class at the park District in 1991 or around that year and years later at 42 years old after 20 years after her first work in a small fashion store in the mall.............and other fashion stores throughout her 20 year career in fashion, eventually evolved into started her own fashion stylist business then decided to pick up a pen and paper and draw drawings eventually became a animation cartoon character creator that she emails and inspires the Chicago Tribune Newspaper Comics artists with her weird and funny and strange looking creative drawings, but now shares her work with everyone on facebook and other social media websites)
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