Back to the grindstone.

Francoise is French. She is a professional ballet dancer and used to dance at the Opera in Paris. Well over 50 but very very fit, very blonde with very terrific facial definition.   And very fit. Everything you would expect from a ballet dancer, I suppose - or from a female Gestapo officer. I sort of dream of her in a trench coat, peaked hat and monocle and ordering me to do strange things with my body. I wake up and it's not a dream!! - except for the uniform etc.

Today I am totally disoriented. I had really started getting quite used to the routine and the music. I was feeling comfortable and I knew where I was. Now she's changed the whole thing. New music and new moves - and it seems to me that it is much more demanding. Today was the first day of the new routine and so Francoise went over it in small chunks, demonstrating and then letting us have a go with the music. I don't know if it was only that I wasn't used to it but I found all the movements much brisker and more finicky - in fact they hurt more. But all of the women - meaning everyone else - seemed to take it in their stride. Carla wasn't there this week. Maybe she is charging her phone batteries.
Anyway, I saw it through but most of the time I was making mistakes and playing catch-up - far worse really than my first time ever.
What worries me is that half of today's session was taken up with explanations. What on earth is it going to be like next week when she goes through the whole routine in one go? I'm getting really scared. Why did she have to change it? It isn't actually meant to be fun is it? You are just meant to get through it. Now I may even have difficulty doing that. The leg stretching is getting really insane. I'm going to need surgery if it goes on like this. I reckon that the women can do that bit more easily because they have less kit in the perineal area - if you know what I mean. It stands to reason doesn't it. There is nothing joining the two sides so they can do the splits more easily. Why don't they explain this stuff to you before you start. Instead I have to work it out for myself.

If there is a man standing alone in a forest and there are no women there in the forest........is he still wrong?