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I haven’t been to any other teachers. For me, she’s tops. I’m learning a lot from her and I’m getting a better feel for her version of Egyptian style every day. Everyday she picks something personal of mine to work on and the longer I study under her the more she sees. Had I taken just 1 lesson with her, I don’t think I would’ve walked away with much at all. Today was spins, which I’m horrible at. After she gave me a few pointers about how she’d like to see them done I promptly sent myself flying into her dinning room chairs-three times (she wasn’t watching and those are the times that I remember, I’m sure it happened more than that). I also have to work on my Egyptian pelvis tucks. Because it’s Ramadan I had been sneaking into my bag to steal sips of water between rehearsing. I wasn’t sure how strict Mme. Raqia is, but she brought me some water while I was dancing, so I guess I got my answer. She did the 15-25 minute check-in until about 11:45 and then said she was going out and would return very quickly because she was taking a taxi. She asked if I would wait for her and I said yes because I thought she said half an hour. I trained until 1:45 and then decided to head back to the hotel because I thought I was probably missed by then. I left her a note saying that I would be back tomorrow morning at 10.
My partner is my biggest promoter and press agent so when I got back to the hotel I was very happy to hear that my hometown paper is going to run a story on me being in Egypt and returning to Canada to do a show.
I was not happy to hear that he had a very painful stomachache. So we decided to stay in today and he slept on and off the whole day. Around 9 he went out to grab us some take out because he didn’t want me walking around alone at night and then we read a bit and watched a few more TV episodes.
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