We went to the Olympic Stadium early this morning to watch the red fan dancers. One of Sonja’s goals for our trip was to learn the red fan dance, so we were excited when one of the dancers asked us if we wanted to join them. I’m not sure if it was our white skin, exercise clothes, or awkward movements that made us stick out, but whatever it was, we weren’t allowed to participate with the group for more than a couple of minutes. We were quickly moved to a smaller group, or the remedial group. We spent about twenty minutes learning several graceful hand movements, and Sonja and I kept getting in trouble when we watched the red fan dancers instead of our instructor. Although we never had the opportunity to dance with fans or swords (we didn’t quite make it to that skill level), we had a lot of fun dancing with the locals, and they definitely want us to return tomorrow to try again. The next morning we returned to the stadium to try dancing again. We did a lot of warm up exercises with the group, and then we were quickly moved the smaller group again to practice our hand movements. Although we were better than the day before, we still weren’t allowed to dance with the fans or swords. Of course, they did let Sonja purchase a couple of fans.