On a more cheery note...

[rodneyscat]

My youngest wants to do a jumpstyle dance at the open stage day at school next week. So he and 4 of his friends are practicing after school in his room. I'm not sure if you all are familiar with jumpstyle? It's very popular here, especially among young guys. It's a whole special 'thing' where guys jumpstyle solo, or in groups, or do what they call duojump where you have to jump synchronous. It's especially appreciated when someone adds a little personal swing to it, and somehow it's also very cool to let yourself be filmed while doing jumpstyle in special places and then put it on the internet, so YouTube is filled with clips of guys jumping at school, in the train, at a policestation (that was a fun way to do something daring) and in Disneyland (with Tigger jumping along, cute).

Anyway, I've got five 11 year-olds practicing at my house every day, and since it's supposed to look like this, but usually ends up looking like this, you can imagine the ruckus. Especially since they also have gigglefits every now and then.