Exude Excellence

I walked to salsa Tuesday night and even though you’re supposed to wear shoes and trousers for the classes as trainers are too grippy, I walked in with my Pumas and my trackie bottoms as I couldn’t be bothered to get changed and I was running late anyways. At class there was this girl, who I shall call, Toni, so Toni was new and I haven’t seen her before. At salsa when you learn to dance you dance with everyone and change partners so it wasn’t long before I was dancing with Toni. At salsa you don’t need a canned opener and how well you salsa is your basic DHV. So when it was my turn to dance with Toni, I started with “Hi, How are you?” and then a polite “Thank you for the dance” when it was time to move on and change partners. The next time I danced with her, I introduced myself and we shook hands and then I asked her how long she had danced before, she gave me her name and she said that she hadn’t been dancing for long. At salsa I feel at home, I’ve been dancing since last October and I know many of the people there so I had lots of people to talk to. Then during the break between the beginners and improvers class these two other new guys came over to speak to me, Noss and Sam, I’ve seen Sam before but Noss said he recognised me from somewhere else I had no idea where and we spent a little while trying to work it out but we couldn’t, then all 3 of us fluffed for a while, Toni stood in ear shot talking to someone else as this went on. I did the improvers class and continued to chat to Toni and dance with her during the class. When we left we all planned to go to the Forum but I wanted to go to the library before going straight to the Forum and she wanted to go do work at her studio before going to the Forum so we walked towards the university together and she asked me if I was going to the Forum and I said I was and she said that I should give her my number so we can walk down together after we finish our work. I agreed. I’m not sure what it was. It could have been because I dressed differently, I knew lots of people which demonstrated that I had HV and I was preselected, I could be because I’m pretty good at salsa, maybe I came across confident, polite and a good communicator. Maybe because we had a lot of kino but whatever the reason was: she wanted my number and she felt comfortable asking for my number. It could be a whole host of things that allowed me to get that number exchange but all I know is this, always exude excellence be your best self you never know what might happen when you wake up in the morning. Do your hair, dress well, be socialbe, smile and enjoy life. Happiness is infectious. Be excellent to attract excellence. Peace, D.