Moving forward in 2007

First post of the new year..been too long!!!

One word how I feel right now...WHEW!! This past saturday the 13th was the first salsa social the Motor City Salseros created and put on. This came about during the holidays when a bunch of people I salsa with were at a party on a Saturday night, we've said it together a bunch times that we needed a place to dance on a Saturday. So I brought up to my friend Elaine who owns Troy Dance Studio that she should have a salsa night. Elaine has been in business for a long time and I should've known that she won't do anything half ass, lol. She said she'd rather have a full salsa social, we agreed. She then said to get a committee together...I was voted President...oh boy! The name of the committee is the Motor City Salseros. Elaine had used the name for a previous group she had at the studio. It was put to a vote and we decided to continue using that name. We completed the committee except for a Treasurer and started to plan for the evening.

We had my friend Dana come and take pictures of the studio, put them in an email and sent out an email to a list that Elaine has built over the past year. Let me tell you, the evening was fantastic!!! We had well over a 100 people, all this from less than two weeks of planning and promoting! There unfortunately was a d.j. issue in the middle of the week, Elaine and Mirza took care of it quickly and like I said, the evening was absolutely great. The people I worked with really pulled it off! It was a long night because the studio hosted a business networking party beforehand that went really well also. The night ended at 3:30 a.m., it was crazy...crazy good!! We have a lot of plans for future salsa socials, I think it'll work out really well.

Ever since I went to the New York and Toronto salsa congress' last year i've been wanting get involved more...and now I am. Next month is the Chicago congress, Feb 16-18. http://www.chicagosalsacongress.com

Our next social is Feb. 10, then also there's a showcase at the studio on the 24th..busy salsa month in Feb! If Sensuality comes to town..that'll really cap the month off...