probably?

One of the things I've been laughing about for the past few weeks is the Carlsberg beer advertising strategy:  "Probably the best beer in the world."  Modest?

So, in the past few days, here is what i've been up to:

1.  language class and midterm

2.  events of dainu svente - the biggest folk song and dance festival in lithuania

3.  going to the KGB museum to do research

4.  going to the modern art museum

5.  interviewing lithuanian people I meet

6.  attending folk music parades, street performances, etc

7.  researching events, buying tickets

8.  studying music for my voice lessons - barbarina's aria, russian music, lithuanian art song

9.  practicing my lithuanian 

10.  going to history and culture lectures

why not start as far away from folk music as possible, with breakdancing.  during the folk song festival, Kalnu parke, there was a group of professional break dancers doing their own thing, listening to funk, dancing, and laughing and smoking together.  in my discussion with them, the lead dancer explained that breakdancing isn't just what they do for fun, it is their way of life.   "the music is a part of us", he said - his dance troupe is his family, he feels that the funk music is a part of him and that the dancing is that just coming out of him. i keep coming across this pattern of music and dance as something "inside" of the people I speak with, which naturally comes out of them when they are with others, singing and dancing.  our interview closed with him asking, "is that all?  because right now, i really feel like i need to go dance".