Dear Pen Pal, How are you doing today? My name is Cole Faierstain and I am here to tell you about the reasons behind my interest in dance appreciation. At first when it was time to pick all of my classes I was looking for a class that fit my schedule and was flexible. One of my good friends told me there was this class that was interesting and a good class for what I was looking for. She said that Dance Appreciation was a class that was flexible enough and interesting enough for me to take along with my heavy course load. Therefore I decided that this class was going to be very important for my studies this year. Some of my friends decided to take the class as well this semester so it makes this class interesting because I have a lot of people to talk about the information about. My mother and my sister are avid dancers and they have been dancing for their whole lives. When I was younger I always had gone to all of their dancing comeptitions and performances and I loved the way everyone competed, looked, and acted out on the dancing floor. My sister was very good at ballet which got me very curious when learning about ballet in this class. In middle school I had a dance unit in physical education which broadened my horizon of the dance world. We learned all these types of dancing such as the two step, ballet, hip-hop, and some barn dances. All of these dances were really great to learn about and interesting to actually do with other people. I also participated in a group called “Social Dance” in which every Saturday we went into this large auditorium and viewed other people dancing and tried to mimic their dances with a partner. I was always very nervous to go on stage and dance in front of the whole group. I remember that there was a lot of ballet involved and the costumes were much like the ones we have learned in this class. We got to try on the ballet