Many years ago, I went to a restaurant in Philadelphia with my brother called Middle East. The food was good, but the thing that I liked best was the belly dancers. What can I say? The way they move is just so cool. Graceful, powerful, mysterious and incredibly seductive. I’ve always wanted to learn to belly dance. Not only for the seduction value, but also because it’s great exercise and a really great way to tone your body. Afterall, belly dancers use muscles that most of use don’t even know exist. I once bought one of those little kits you find on the “impulse racks” in stores but it didn’t do much good. I don’t think I ever got the leg movements quite right and I didn’t practice enough to get the hip motion down. Some of it I got pretty quickly, the arm movements didn’t come across on paper, either. I couldn’t do what the booklet told me to do and make it look graceful. Maybe I wasn’t reading it right. I’ve been thinking about getting some belly dance videos and giving it another try. After all, if I can watch an actual person demonstrating the technique, I’ll be able to match the movement and learn it better. Which, I think, would work better for most people. I’m not really one for doing classes, just not into that. I’d rather do it where no one else can see me, until I have it down and can wow them with my dazzling skill. Then I can get myself some belly dancing music, make myself an outfit and be inspiring like the women at that restaurant so many years ago.