Um, I guess in Lauren’s absence I’m suppose to post something? I looked through her recent photos and found some that I didn’t know about. The eighth grade girls planned an eighth grade “formal” dance, and asked me to help them with the music. It was all cute and stuff. The girls in their dresses and the guys not in jeans or shorts. We don’t see them so dressed up at the Fun Nights because they all play dodge-ball and other fun things.
There were times when all of the girls would rush out of the dance together, and the guys would just stand around looking at each other.
They were oddly shy about dancing. Normally they dance together at the Fun Nights, but they were having trouble getting together for the “formal”. Eventually we taught them what a snowball dance was and that worked well. After that we introduced them to Lady’s Choice and Guy’s Choice dances that I remembered from 4-H dances. For those you can ask anyone to dance and they can’t say no. It’s weird that we needed to do that, because I didn’t see anyone say no to anyone all night long, and I was looking for that.
Lauren didn’t get any pictures of it, but it was too cute. Without anything in the way of instruction from us they organized the most embarrassing way possible to accomplish those dances. All of the guys would line up against one wall and the girls against the other and whoever had “choice” would slowly walk across the gym floor and point to the one they wanted to dance with. It was too funny.