Salsa!
October 4th, 2008 | 
Author: Sorry for the long overdue post. I haven’t had a day off in about 2 weeks, and whilst working have been very busy, and then at night I go out regardless of the fact of being extremely tired, only because I hate sitting at home.
Mark is still living in my apartment, and we’re trying to find one. I don’t know if i mentioned the 3 bedroom apartment in Alex’s building, but it’s about 1800sq.ft and worth about 2000rmb a month. Figure that’s about $320 a month. Very expensive for our city, even though the location is the reason for such a high price.
I decided that the best way to get back into salsa dancing (and earning extra money on the side without causing New Oriental to fire me for doing “part-time work”) is to open my own studio. The only reason this is possible is because several friends and students have shown a desire to learn. I’ve calculated that, to be really fair, within a few months from now I could be earning 12,000rmb a month on top of my salary from New Oriental. Once I earn enough money through this to afford a really nice studio, I could start earning closer to 50,000rmb a month or so from salsa 
My plan is to first find and teach some people for free as to get myself back into the swing of dancing, as well as use them to find my teaching style. Then I’ll teach people to become instructors so I can run different levels of salsa in one class so not everyone is stuck doing the same thing. I can attract more students by doing free social dancing on university campuses (also like my old studio).
Well that’s what I’ve been doing these past two weeks.. I hope to post a bit more, but there is also not much new going on.
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