Stake Dances

If Stake dances were this cool in the States I think people would actually go to them. 

This Friday our stake had a "welcome back dance" since school has just restarted here. The dance started at 8pm, so knowing that church dances start late, Nicole and I showed up half an hour late. We, however, forgot to calculate Chilean-LDS time and the dance didn't actually start until about 9:15pm. 

Nicole and I have to thank Nadia and Rocio for the good time we had at the dance. Honestly with out them it wouldn't have been as fun! When the music did finally start, the four of us just went out there and had a blast dancing. Crazy dancing actually. It was great!

A little while later, a karaoke game started up. This wasn't too much fun for Nicole and I since it was just spanish music. Karaoke is actually much more popular in Chile than I would have expected, and we have to sit through several weird karaoke games. This time everyone tried to get us to play with them, but we escaped having to go up. 

After the game we danced some more. Then everyone brought out the chias, because it's not a Chilean party with out chias! 

This time there were 7 balloons hung on the ceiling that had candy and chias in them. People took turns trying to pop the balloons with darts. Nicole even had a go at it.... 

When we first walked into the dance Rodrigo gave everyone numbers. At first Nicole and I thought it might be for a cake walk... at this point we found out it was a dance contest and we WISHED it was a cake walk! In any case Nicole and I were ushered on to the dance floor and required to take part. Nicole and Jamie were partners, while Pablo was my partner. The crazy thing is that Pablo and I kept winning! I don't think I have danced like that ever in my life, nor do I ever want to again. I did the craziest dance moves I could think of, just letting everything loose. Some how every one thought it was cool though and wanted me to show them how to do it! Man, sometimes being from another country really does have it's advantages, like people think whatever you do is cool! Pablo and I made it to the final round, but we were eventually beat by our friend Sergio!

After the dance contest we did something I have never seen done on a mass scale... or with boys. They put on a music video and we tried dancing along with the moves. But these were no ordinary songs, oh no, they were old Backstreet Boys-Brittany Spears songs. First the guys went and they sang and danced to the Backstreet boys. After the boys went the girls had their turn. We danced along to Brittany Spear's "Oops I Did It Again", and "Hit Me Baby One More Time"- classics of course! Sergio told me I looked like Brittany Spears, I think it was mostly because I was the only one there with blond-ish hair. 

The dance did eventually end, you know, around 2am like any good Chilean party.