Last week, Friday the 6th, we experienced a Barn Dance in a town in Wisconsin State. We had dinner and met people from the aera who were accustomed to attend this community meeting. We clean the room all together in a simple but pleasant atmosphere and began to dance. There was a band, playing the piano, the guitar and another typically folk instrument I can't remember the name unfortunately. A lady was singing and teaching us how to dance. It was collective dances, we often changed ot partners, meeting each time new people. Even if boys were really shy at the beginning, we all were dancing at the end of the night and enjoyed these folk dancing. It was difficult to memorize all the steps we learned, but we had so much fun, trying to do our best! We were really immersed in a part of the history and culture of American people. For me, it was especially interesting, as I take a class about American music at Divine Word. At that date we had just studied Folk music and I could have an concrete overview of what I learned in class.
