There are days when I'm a terrible dance student. I don't remember stuff, things I know I can do just won't re-appear in my brain at all. It's terribly frustrating and I get visibly frustrated...
The smooth dances are the worst for me -- waltz and foxtrot, bolero, sometimes even tango (though I loved tango in theory).
I've been dancing ballroom about three years now, but the first year I was doing just two lessons a month and wasn't actually _dancing_ anywhere. So I don't really count that as a proper year at all...
The last two years plus a few months, I've been doing group lessons on Friday (two styles each Friday) and trying to go to Saturday dances to actually _dance_ (though a bit inconsistent there). The last year, I have also been doing higher-level classes Thursday night. Plus the same 2 private lessons a month on top of it all.
These 3rd level classes are the classes that kill me. Level 2 is now not bad -- which makes sense, since they are designed for people who have been dancing about 2 years. Level 3 classes, like tonight's Foxtrot 3, are still a terrible struggle.
I got through almost all 5 weeks of Foxtrot 3 though! But it was hard, and I had a hell of a time remembering stuff from week to week -- since the moment I leave the room I don't think about it again until the moment I re-enter the room the next week.
Because I do school and social stuff weekends, and I'm usually too tired to go to Saturday dancing. And Mon/Wed is Taichi -- no practice then! Learning Chen form, which is also hard. Tuesday is usually house oriented stuff, bills, whatnot. And that's it. All the week there is.
Work, Taichi, dance lessons, weekends for school and life and housework...
So dancing level 3 smooth is hard and frustrating and I'm a terrible cranky angry frustrated student.
Sigh.