You know you are a bellydancer when....

[miss_shimmy]

you catch yourself doing chest raises to the rythm of the printer
when you buy new clothes,you ask yourself if you could dance in them also..

over to you....

[Kiadorin]

When you find yourself calculating your expenditures by the price of dance videos (Pay 1/4 of an IAMED to spend 2 hours in the movie theatre on Friday night? Pfffft.).

[Shanazel]

You know you are a belly dancer when you have more coins on your costumes than most people have in their pockets.

(Of course this may only be true for old-style American cab dancers- so many others have gone for beads!)

You also know you are a belly dancer when you seriously consider taking out a loan to travel cross country to a speical workshop.

[Sara]

Lmao!

When you sneak out of college to go to dance classes.

And when you stretch and make nice arms movements to finish it off.

[miss_shimmy]

...some music comes on and the first thing that enters your mind is...''i wonder if I can dance to this...''

[Yasmine Bint Al Nubia]

....when you have more costumes than regular clothes ......

[Ariella]

-When you look through your normal scarf bin to find things that look like they could be turned into hip scarves(I've found some gems this way!)
-When you have a routine that goes with the sound of you brushing your teeth
-When you have more arabic music than anything else, and play it constantly despite rampant complaining from friends and neighbors
-You've been caught shimmying while thinking in the middle of a business presentation

[Yshka]

When you sneak out of college to go to dance classes.

-When you look through your normal scarf bin to find things that look like they could be turned into hip scarves(I've found some gems this way!)
-When you have more arabic music than anything else, and play it constantly despite rampant complaining from friends and neighbors

me too, me too!

You know you're a bellydancer when....
- after class you hear a song playing somewhere in the background, and immediately perceive it as ME though it's not.
- you don't show up for college and a day later first thing classmates ask is: were you dancing again??
- you find yourself arranging your dance supplies much more neatly than your other stuff.
- you buy any scarf just because "it might also look nice around your hips".
- when someone asks for your favourite song, first thing comes to mind are Arab classics...
- you pick the most ME sounding ringtone you can find for your cellphone.
- first thing you do in a music store is checking the world-music section for any bellydance'able music.
- first thing you do when paycheck comes in is decide how much you'll spend on dance-related things (and go over it when actually spending )

[belly_dancer]

www.montereycountyweekly.com/issues/ Issue.01-04-2007/cover/Article.cover_story_4 -
check out above article.... found in area paper...
right on thread!

[Yshka]

I can't open it, the link doesn;t work, any other way to show us?