Everything is different: how people arrive, how they are are greeted and seated; where singles, friends and couples sit, the birthday party groups; who changes their shoes and and where and who does not ; what people wear, how they have their hair and make up; what they do with their keys and bags; how they wait and watch; how they invite and accept; where and how they meet to dance; how they join the ronda; how they embrace; when they start dancing and how they dance; how and when they greet their friends; the signals they make with their hands; when they chat; the music, the tropical or otros ritmos tandas; what is permissible and what is not; how men interact with locals and with tourists...and neither type by any means come in one model. Even the ladies rooms are completely different there. When I was becoming more familiar with the milongas and paying more active attention to the tracks, dancers and DJs asked and laughed and joked but did not seem to mind me writing down tracks on napkins and scraps of paper. There is lots to do if you are not dancing - never mind figuring out which of the many guys there you want to dance with, which probably takes up most women's time.
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