I'll Stick to Dance Battles, Thank You

Grinding and freak dancing are slang terms for a relatively raunchy dancing set of moves popular in the house and hip-hop dance styles. Grinding is fairly self-explanatory: two or more dancers rub their bodies against each other in a sexual or sexually suggestive manner. It is often performed at nightclubs and parties that play house and hip-hop music. It has also gained popularity at high school and middle school dances across the United States, where there have been isolated cases of administrators attempting to ban it. The meaning is basically the same as the self-describing term for party dancing. Elements of "grinding" may be seen in a 1987 movie Dirty Dancing, and "grinding" is sometimes referred to by this term as well.

Grinding has also been referred to as "houseing" or "juking". The perreo, a Puerto Rican dance associated with reggaeton, is a type of grinding; The word 'perreo' is derived from the Spanish word "Perro" for "Dog" (as in "doggy-style"). There was also a Puerto Rican music genre associated called perreo, which served as the precursor to reggaeton.

Commonly and particularly at middle school parties, girls are often not comfortable with grinding with boys yet, and prefer to grind with other girls, often in 'grinding chains.' This is not suggesting that they are lesbians, as some may even have boyfriends, but are simply not comfortable with grinding with their boyfriend. In Puerto Rico, the youth scene seems to have a completely different attitude towards this matter as common youth "perreo" parties become part of regular nightlife at a very early age.


Techniques
The most common dance techniques involved in grinding are, but not limited to:

The partners face the same direction so that one partner's (typically the girl's) buttocks are rubbing the other partner's (the boy's) groin. This is the most common technique in the reggaeton scene, otherwise known as perreo. In some parts of the Northeastern United States it is commonly called culiando, which basically translates to grinding. A variation of this technique has the girl supporting her weight with one or two hands on the floor (buttocks in the air) while the boy, holding her by the waist, grinds to the rhythm on the buttocks in a manner that simulates the doggy style sexual position.
The partners, facing each other, straddle each other’s thighs. This may or may not facilitate the rubbing of genitals through their clothing. Pressing up against each other's bodies in order to feel the female's breasts against the male's chest is also common. A less suggestive variation of this is used when dancing the Colmbian-based rhythm champeta.
In grinding, the female may lead the dance with her hips while the male follows, or the male may guide the female's hips from behind with his hands.

The Change

So I was looking at old pictures and decided that I am going to dye the hair back. I wonder if that's easier now that it's been stripped...?

I miss the lightness!

Hokies kick ass once again

We do it again, VT 35 - UNC 10 ..... and we let them score the last quarter because our 4th string couldn't hold it

Good weekend this week... Saw some VTCC alumni and we all hung out at Okaloosa beach to watch the game, which is going to be a weekly occurence as long as there is Hokie Football to watch!

Then I visited 2 shelters and saw my share of dogs and cats that day... good thing Alexis and Michael finally agreed on a black lab/german shepherd mix... very very cute dog and I can see that he will get along with everybody.

Clubbed both nights and met a lot of new people (finally) this weekend... I would say very productive outside the apartment.. need to do more cleaning and get this MacBook repaired.... gotta stick with list here and quit the impulse buying, but really... do you think I'm going to get broke? I don't have any dependents and am really a frugal girl... or, at least I used to be.

Pictures of the Start

At McGuires... The Johnson Family, Drew, and I





Drew and Laura are so cute together!





Lookin kind of bare huh?




Navy vs. Air Force
Me and Laura after McGuires

She's got me running more and more in these 5K runs and I havent even been here for a week yet... I'm afraid I might start like running....
Yeah, so we're working on beautifying this already beautiful place...

it's just not the same without DT

Day 1 at my permanent duty station of Pensacola... and I have never filled out my name and address as much as I have this morning. About 200 of us reported in this morning, which makes the wait for API even longer than it already was (it will probably be 4-6 months for the NFOs and then we're sticking around while the pilots head out after they class up)

Navs are definitely getting stash jobs which is pretty much what I did at the NROTC unit... here we'll be assigned at random places such as the Flight Management office, the clinic, or in the case of my AF roommate... at the gym making sure people clean up their mess and issuing towels out. Yessss... this is what I wanted the Navy to pay me for.

Oh, on another note, I was REALLY fortunate to find an apartment before I even arrived which saved me money that would have been used at the BOQ. I am going to thank Carly who knew a Julia who knew a Laura who needed a roommate of which I came into the equation and we both are already jumpy and excited just doing stuff... I was pretty lucky because Laura is a cool chick, she and I get along very well which is good for me considering I've never really lived with an actual girly girl. It would be a lot more cooler though if we classed up at the same time. But thank goodness I decided not to room alone. I wouldn't have known where the airport was to drop Papa off, and where the Target was to buy the thousand dollars worth of stuff...

Lastly, I am truly missing the accessibility which is B-burg DT. I need to go back to PK's and HoHo's and TOTS and Sharkey's and all that good stuff which is downtown clubbing.... someone send me a ticket to go back for one weekend!