Enforced relaxation, sort of

I could only do the Tangos class today.
My feet started to rebel on me, even in that. It is a pretty doable level for me, but I'm not feeling too good.
I have been dragging myself 40 minutes each way, twice a day, that makes 2 hours and 40 minutes of walking each day, plus 3 hours of dancing.

I am unhappy about living in La Macarena and going to Triana for both school and a practice studio. I don't know if buying a "bici" is going to do it. I almost feel like forgetting about the 25 days left of rent I've already paid and getting a place in Triana. This is when I get down on myself, feeling like I never make the right decisions.

I am sleeping an hour every afternoon and would rather be right now, but I had to try to do something about a bike, and also had to try to decide whether I should move or not, so I am in an nice cafe with Wifi, on the Alameda de Hercules and just finished looking up just about every other dance school to see where they are, and wondering if I would want to take classes with them too, in which case it would be reasonable to stay in La Macarena.

I feel like I have no time to do anything and can barely get basic necessities done (changing my computer cord, as essential as it is, not included), despite only having 3 hours of scheduled important stuff to do each day. I am going to bed really early. I am fighting a cold as well as whatever else - stress from a long time.

Anyways, the good news is that Pili Ogalla is really great. Raphael very suddenly told us he would be away for a couple weeks and the next day we had Pili. Look her up on Youtube. I felt like I finally learned how to dance, the very first hour she was teaching us. I've learned some important basics at home but spent too little time in classes where the details of each movement were explained. My fault, I guess. Also she is just cool - explains really well and is nice. She taught us a huge amount of choreography too, right away. However, the second class (the medio-alto one) is a bit too much of a challenge for me right now. Raphael's medio-alto level Alegrias was okay for me. But the Siguiriyas de Pili is too fast. Actually it would be fine, but there are some students in the class who keep the pace of the footwork way too high, from the outset (even though they can't get the "sentido" - the overall sense of the very complicated rhythm). That doesn't work for me. I am totally capable of obtaining the same speed, but not the 3rd time I do the paso. The first few times you do something complicated, your brain, of course, has to be helping out, and mine does that only grudgingly.

Yum - I just ordered an Empanada de Atun (tuna). I need to take it easy at the moment and am not going to rush home and make lunch.