onela
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I've had a billion of them, but none so funny as when I was doing my certificate IV in Lab Skills. I never understood chemistry. It was just fail fail fail the entire time. Nothing ever made sense, no matter how hard I tried. So after what was my fourth go at basic chemistry (thrice at uni) I was listening to the lecturer and writing notes when suddenly it stopped being swahili and suddenly congealed into English. I stood up in the middle of the lecture and said 'Oh finally. This all makes sense now. Thanks' and sat down with a very smug smile on my face.
Just think, I was a stupid English-speaking kid taking Chemistry in *French* for French Immersion in high school I never had any lightbulb moments in chemistry...
Dance-wise, I had a real a-ha moment when Nath Keo came to town. I finally "get" hip shimmies and the differences between them (even though I'm still not great at them). Also, the same day I did Nath's workshop? A lady- a total stranger!, upon hearing that I study belly dance, made a crack about how now "all you need now is a belly!". I've struggled with my appearance all my god damned life so that really hurt. But when I saw Nath dance at the hafla that evening, I really saw that you don't need to have tits and hips to belly dance. It was very validating for me.