Re: [Callers] Dec. 18 program for E. Sandwich

Tom, thank you for your comments. They echo some comments that Lisa gave me offline about the order of the first half. So I experimented with re-arranging the first half dances and came up with something I like better. Lisa's comment was that teaching a half hey is easier than teaching a full one, so I swapped The Second Time Around and Carousel and made a couple of other changes. Here is the result: Forgotten Treasure Esmerelda's Revenge The Second Time Around The Baby Rose Marian's Delight (without Mods) Carousel (Alt: Mary Cay's Reel) Square Affair The second half is the same as below. Now the do-si-do 1+1/2 and the Star Promenade fit better into the program and we have a better buildup to Carousel. Just two more days to go! On a side note: A funny thing happened to me on the way to the square dance... 8^) As some of you know, I go Modern Western Square Dancing on Tuesday nights at MIT. Well, this past Tuesday, the MIT contra dance was across the hall from Tech Squares. The caller didn't show that night. Clark, who likes to bounce between the two dances, came in and told Seth and I about it and asked if we could remember any dances to go call. I volunteered (after some thought) that I could remember The Baby Rose off the top of my head. So I went across the hall and called it. After trading off with the organizer trying to remember dances a couple of times (and mangling them), I went to my car and got my cards for Saturday's program and called the second half from them. The crowd was small (I usually was calling to a group of 6-10 dancers). Some friends were in the band and were easy to work with. It was great, because I had a chance to practice a few of my dances for Saturday, and I didn't have any chance to worry and get nervous, so I was pretty relaxed about it. The really amusing thing was watching all of the Tech Squares people (who had heard what was going on) kept coming across the hall to poke their heads in and see what was happening. I suppose it looked pretty funny with me, in shorts and a Tech Squares T-shirt, standing at the head of a contra dance line, calling the action. 8^) The organizer took my information, and she might contact me to call an evening there... 8^) All the best, Chris Chris Weiler wrote: