I taught my kids the electric slide last week as a reward for their good behavior. I wanted to film it but they really didn’t get it together enough to be filmed. The video would have just been me doing it over and over again by myself and hollering, “Come on! It’s not hard! Just try it!” while most of them hung around the edges staring at my feet.
I was surprised – given then they do the hora (traditional circle dance) at every celebration, I imagined they would like line dancing since it’s basically the hora only not in a circle. But it weirded them out.
Then as a last resort (I really wanted them to have a good time since the whole idea was that it was a reward for them) I pulled up the Macarena. And everyone lost their minds.
Moldovan kids love the Macarena. I guess it makes sense since it’s so easy and they can’t understand the words to the song anyway. I was lucky I even had it on my iTunes since I haven’t listened to it since I was about in 4th grade.
Anyway, I will be giving another class the same reward soon and am hoping to get them trained well enough to maybe film it. Fingers crossed. Noapte Buna!