First day of suhaila workshops

Six hours, starting with SS showing a video about her mother and why she developed her format. She is in a far better mood compared to the previous workshop. She told us that she dislikes teaching workshops at festivals because people only come in for a quick taste of a teacher. There were some questionable facts ofcourse, like:
Jamila was the first to organize a bellydance festival
Tribal is all based on salimpour format
Suhaila started developing her format at age ten (really? I mean, she should know, but there's a big difference between wanting to be a pretty bellydancer and a full blown format)

She and her two assistents (sabriye and maelle) are delightful and very efficient in leading multi level drills. Which is what we did most of the time, in what feels like a hundred variations. I'll probably chew on this material for the next couple of years albeit I doubt that being able to do a step touch right half time with a hip square back ccw is going to make my performances more interesting.

Since most of the participants are locals and/or native french speakers, I haven't found friends to have dinner with yet. Instead I bought cherries and strawberries and loitered around in the park. So far being pregnant ia okay, except that my lowerabs are not going in and I dislike doing pelvic locks to the back. During one of the drills she started kicking me but overal I can imagine her enjoying the rocking motions.