dancing in chile

i have finally found a dance studio here in chile. i took class last week for the first time and it was AWESOME. mariano, the teacher, is great and teaches a great 2 hour jazz class. its a small hole-in-the-wall studio, but classes are pretty small (12 people) and it just feels so great to be back taking classes again. the studio is close to my house .. about 5 blocks .. and mariano is actually a friend of the director here at the stanford center. i also met a chilean girl named joyce who wants to be dancer so will hopefully go to either europe or the US after high school to audition for some companies. she even speaks fluent english because her mom is from england!