Hello All - well here I go again trying to start up this damn blog. I don't quite know why I can't let it die, but I can't. Since September, my personal life hasn't been really blogable just because I don't feel like "please feel pity for me" blogging and there's been a lot of death and severe illness surrounding my life.

However, outside of my personal life, the belly dancing is always keeping me happy. The pic above is the troup I'm in at the Rakkasah festival in San Francisco in March this year. The pic is curtesy of the Rakkasah website photo page.

It was so much fun I can barely explain it to you. I still get that gurglie excited feeling in my stomach every time I talk about it. On the Sunday when I had to leave the festival (which was a huge convention centre with two stages and the rest filled with belly dance apparel/jewelry/stuff vendors) I actually started crying. In public. Yup.

Plus, fuck Disneyland, San Francisco is the most amazing place on earth. I felt completely at home there and stayed in their Fisherman's Wharf HI hostel and it was this old military base surrounded by forrested area with a view of both the prison and the bridge. It was beautiful. By the way, anyone thinking of going to the festival, please know that it is in Richmond, which is considerably less pretty than San Fran so spend some extra days there so you can go into the City.

Okay, I shall try and do more blogging in the future.