April 3, 2006, 11:21 p.m. (Message 44975, in reply to message 44971)
I agree totally with both Hannah and Alex about the social aspect of SCD being very important. I had 2 of my group, who had only taken up dancing about 3/4 years ago and had retired down to the south of France, told me that dancing had been their entree into a social life with both ex-pats and locals and were very grateful for it. It doesn't matter what age you are, SCD is very social and gives you a great social life enabling you to meet and become friends with many you would never have met otherwise. It certainly gave me a great point of contact when I moved to the Netherlands over 20 years ago, not knowing anyone and unable to speak Dutch. Margaret