sallycat is working on loving every one of at least nine lives
she is a tango dancer, a writer and an adventurer
she has a soul that sings with truth
she lives in Buenos Aires
she is a survivor
she rocks
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Wow! sallycat is amazing! xx
She is a non-alcoholic
She speaks good French
She loves tonic
She is a good horse rider
She is a good juggler
She is a “good runner”
She is a great friend
She has a too big heart for her tiny flesh
Ter bol mash sain eej
and SHE IS CRAZY!
Respect Sally! Great to know more about you and I will be fascinated to read your up-dates.
Best wishes
Mel x
We know who she is but she never ceases to amaze us and who knows? Argentina could be on our next year’s holiday list. Another suitcase in another hall. Looking forward to experiencing the tango, watching but not participating. Jealousy, day and night you torture me!
Sally, for the short time that I have known you; you have always shown great drive and determination. Keep strong and motivated in your journey of life and l am looking forward to sharing your journey with you…
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending…enjoy yours!
Love Jas x
Sally your such a positive person, and real inspiration for me and everyone! I hope you have an amazing time on your adventure you really deserve it!
Cant wait to hear all about it!
Love Jessxxx
Hi, Sal. Wow. The mongolia pix are amazing, but the Sallycat pic is extraordinary. Just so you. We’ll be watching, and thinking, and dreaming, and I hope you’ll drop us a line from time-to-time.
Big hugs, and best luck with wherever your travels take you (here is OK!). John and Lorraine. xoxoxo
Born a star and will always be a star! She’s full of surprises and will never cease to amaze us. She’s truly special – determined, creative, fun, a wonderful friend and, above all, inspirational. Sal, we love you and wish you well while you live the fabulous dream. Take extra good care of yourself our special friend.
Much Love, Deb, Steve and Alex xxx
Sally is unique. She is a gifted friend who commits herself fully to her friends,family and interests/passions. She inspires all those around her and even with continents between us her dynamic presence is felt – tanGO Sal
Love
Mo
xx
Hi! Gabriella directed me to your site and I love reading about all the fun you two are having in BA! Also love the pics! Thanks!!!
You’re a brave and inspiring gal, Sally! Reading your blogs leaves me smiling and laughing out loud sometimes…I have very itchy feet now and don’t know I can wait till November to tango in BA! Life is meant to be a glorious fun filled dream, so keep it up and be safe. Warm vibes from sunny Southampton, Yasmin xxx
Sally, Can I just say that I accidentally came across your blog whilst searching the net for Tango lessons and you have really inspired me. My wife and I are looking to spend a few weeks in BA in September and will be taking Tango lessons for sure. Thanks for the inspiration!!!
Hello Sally,
I’ve just seen your video and you look fantastic; like a professional…
I really enjoy reading your news.
Take care and happy dancing
Bernadette (Portsmouth)
Hi Sally,
You won’t remember me but I was at the Tango Tangk 13 that you were at with your bad foot! I’ve been reading your diary and I wanted to let you know that I’m really enjoying living vicariously through you. I’m envious but envy is a negative thing so I’m thrilled for you at the same time. My plan is to visit BA some day in the not too distant future and your insights are whetting my appetite – though to visit as a tourist will be a completely different experience from integrating yourself completely, which you seem to be doing so well.
Many happy dances – por favor baila un tango para mi!
Ruth
Hello Sally,
nice to see you having fun in Buenos Aires.
Reading of your experiences makes our moody weather in Southampton a figment and your writing brings images of passionate hope of fulfillment.
Will be nice to meet up when you come back!
Enjoy your dances!!!
hye! i found you reading ,in a expat blog , so you are there in bs as , thats good , im from patagonia , neuquen .- its nice to see that other people could make those changes in her life.well , drop me a line ,if you want …so we could talk about something or about argentina…….
have good nite there .
Wow Sally! I have been at home for a month now and only now i found the little pink personal card you gave with your blog address. i couldnt stop reading for hours of course and all the memories from Buenos Aires have raised from the bottoms of my soul… i’m sorry i never really got to know you… but now that you’ve got an appartment in BA (congratulations!) i know where to find you!
keep dancing chica, for all us girls for whom Buenos Aires was only un sueño!
Sally,
we met us for a dinner in Milan with Chuka and Annalisa before you gone to BA…maybe you don’t remember me…In that occasion I was in a lather… but I immediately felt you’re a great inspirational and creative person.
Now, reading your story I’m impressed to touch your courage…I’d like to change my life but where’s the inspiration? Where looking for a new lease on life?
That’s good example! Thanks so much Sally.
Big hugs, and best luck with wherever your angel takes you
Hope to see you soon…maybe in BA!! Happy dances!!
Manu
hola sally!!
hoy decidi entrar a tu pagina y leer con mucha atencion…para saber como pensas y sentis…y la verdad me gusto mucho…..
los extraño…..hace muchisimo que no nos vemos ….estoy triste por eso….
espero que esten bien…
los mejores deseos y millones d besos
caro
Just to let you know I never forgot about you and have been following your Journey.
Hi, Sally.
If you are in my neighborhood, or plan to be in Las Canitas, please check out my bijouterie on-line first before you head this way and come see me. I am sure you will find something you like amongst the accessories I carry.
It is a nice change from the regular ones you see at various ferias and malls.
And it would be a great chance to meet you.
Good luck.
Gracee
Dear Sally,
I found your blog one or two weeks ago, so I’m still reading the older post before coming to the “last news”. It’s of course your personal point of view about many things of your New Life in Argentina, but with this experience in the Buenos Aires Tango-World, you have found many wonderful things of so common importance that some pages become really a kind of a Tango Gospel.
Reading “More tango lessons” (from Dec.2007, with the attached post from two other blogs) and now “When tango cultures cross /… meet” (from Jan./ Apr. 2008), my first thougt was the desire to translate them in French (where I live) and in German (I often go to milongas there) and give them to some persons… , with the hope that perhaps it would help to break the “boxes … made of steps, of sequences, of moves, of anxiety to ‘perform’… ”. Because not only that a women can suffer, when dancing with a “decorated box”, but also because this “tango-box” destroys the conditions on the milonga floor, taking a lot of place with the complicated ‘steps’ or moving in the wrong direction with a complicated ‘sequence’, with the aim to show his ‘performance’ and to be the best and the most “advanced” dancer… And how you can dance with the music, when your main occupation on the dance floor is how to avoid a collision and how to protect the follower.
It’s not only the “British reserve”, what you describe. This is the common Europe-mentality (and I guess, an American mentality as well), drilled in high performance, always in competition to be the best, giving always the best appearance… in a word – an Extroverted Tango, without a soul and feelings … But what a value have the feelings for the performance mentality?
Also there are, more and more often, a lot of follower who dance ‘in competition” only to show adornos or other decoration skills, to attract the attention without being “in couple” with their leader.
But what is worse : this performance mentality dominate the workshops. “Famous” tangueros from Buenos Aires come to Europe/USA to sell wokshops adapted only to what the students want to learn and teaching … a “stage” performance for a tango-show, not applicable on a milonga floor, and having nothing to do with the “Tango Argentino”. And the result is the competition “who can do more and who is the best” … in the show of the “decorated Tango-boxes”.
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I will now continue the reading with pleasure.
Valentin
Valentin
How great you have discovered my blog and that you have found something worth passing on to others you know. It would give me great pleasure to know that you might translate some of what I write and share it in other countries. You are of course right that it is indeed only my own experience but I think you will see from the comments that others too understand where I am coming from, as you do.
As you will see when you get to the latest posts I am now working on writing ‘an essential guide for the tango traveller’ to Buenos Aires and I may include some extracts from my blog or at least some condensed versions of some of the thoughts I have had over my time here.
Who knows, maybe one day the book will get translated too and so reach more people!
Still for now it is a work in progress.
Thank you very much for your comment, and I hope you enjoy the rest of what you read.
Stay in touch.
SC
Sally,
For the moment I avoid to read the latest post so that I can better follow the changes in your life (with more thrill). But the idea of concentrating the experience in a book is great. Speaking of “own experience” I only wanted to put the accent on things that are of common importance for all tango dancers in the world. I was much impressed by your description of the “decorated boxes”. Because I have “only” 3 years of tango experience, but I had the chance to be in Buenos Aires just in the beginning of my tango-life, without being spoiled by numerous workshops here, were the “boxes” were created. So when I came back I was hurt by the difference between the milongas “here and there”. And by the domination of people with long time experience, full with bad habits and bad floor behaviour. But the opinion of a “beginner” doesn’t count for them, so I think a translation, even a good idea, wouldn’t help to change something. An exemple – a couple here visited recently Buenos Aires for a first time after more than 10 years of local workshop experience and they found that in Buenos Aires the tangueros don’t dance a “good tango”. It was useless even to try to change their opinion …
However it’s too big topic for the place here, I think.
Hope, now you will understand me right : starting to read, my first though was “Oh, a new Sally Potter …”, now I enjoy enormously your post!
Valentin
Valentin
I hear you.
And I understand you!
I so hope the rest of the blog does not disappoint, and that you keep enjoying right up until the latest post!
SC