Smith Family Ice Cream Scoop: Hip Hop is For Young'Uns

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Hip Hop is For Young'Uns

I went to the Hip Hop class at the gym today, and let me tell you... I could not make my moves look like the teacher's! I looked like some weird person trying to bust a move. Napolean Dynamite can dance circles around me! I was actually looking in the mirror thinking that maybe I'm too skinny to do hip hop (the teacher had nice curves), because there has to be some reason that I CAN'T DANCE!

8 comments:

haley said...: well, right now i just want to cry for you cause you ARE too skinny. you poor thing! i would much rather sport my cottage cheese, rolly polly body than your cute little toned one!!!! your a POOP! oh, and i still can't dance even with the curves!; 1:01 PM
Janice {Run Far} said...: I can't dance either, but what a fun class.; 1:10 PM
Mindy said...: Haley, you made me laugh out loud! Well, crap, if it's not the lack of curves, then I guess I have to go with what I chose for the title of this post... because I'm TOO OLD! Eek! And I said I was too skinny for hip hop because I seriously looked like a chicken or something trying to do those moves!

Janice, it was fun! I figure there needs to be someone there to make everyone else feel better, right? That's me. Always there to help everyone else feel hip.; 1:42 PM
Alison said...: Yay, wish too skinny was my problem instead of the opposite. Anyway, Cami died in Feb of a mixture of pain and anti-depressants...both prescribed to her. She passed away in her sleep. It was sad and very unexpected.; 3:18 PM
Charlotte said...: Hip hop really DOES look cuter if you're a bit curvier... take it from me- I used to TEACH it. And I always thought I looked like a rubber chicken. Skinny people should stick to ballet and contemporary if they're worried what they look like. But it IS fun... I'll give you that. :0); 5:33 PM
Dallas said...: I took hip hop for three years and loved it. I thought it was my best style of dancing. There were girls that had danced longer then me and they just couldn't get it. I think you can either move like that or you can't. I don't think you can really teach someone to move like that.; 10:48 AM
Anonymous said...: that is hilarious! I totally want to try that class sometime! I just wish they didn't have the mirrors!; 12:53 PM
prRiggs said...: Hey Mindy,
This is Kandace (Cassie's friend). I have to check your blog every now and then to see how the Smith family is doing. The last time I checked you had a whole post about Cassie that really made me homesick. The Hip Hop thing makes me laugh because I don't even dare try it. My friends love to dance, so they prefer that class, but I won't even get close to it--I don't think my body can even come close to moving that way...; 8:19 PM

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