Un, deux, trois et quatre

So I have just returned from my first participation du club: le swing!  Let me explain... as part of the program, AUCP requires us to join a club to help with the immersion process.  I actually noted before coming that there were free swing (or le rock) classes in Aix, and it turns out they are at the engineering school right across from ours.  Better yet, they are free, and I figured out another bus line to take, as mine ends at 8pm but the lessons don't even start until 8.30.  It was a fairly big room, but pretty packed.  Plus, it's open to anyone, but since it's held at the engineering school, there were boys!  The ratio was pretty much 50/50, which is impressive.  We learned a crazy over-under pretzel sequence that was somewhat perplexing but seemed to go over smoothly.  Swing dancing and French, two of my favorite things!  Just incase you have those two things in your future (or are curious), and so that I can remember, here is my newly acquired swing/rock dictionnaire francais:

Cavalier/ Cavaliere:

Leader/follower 

Note: these are very similar sounding words.  Attentive listening required. 

Le bon-bon: (or something sounding like that...)

Triple step.  (rock step, step ball change, step ball change)  

Le petit-souris ("Little mouse"):

A part of the over-under sequence where the cavaliere crosses under to the back of the cavalier, and then the cavalier lifts his arm over the fille so as to retain the normal stance

Le berceau ("the cradle"):

I forget the name for this en anglais, but it's when the pair is facing the same direction and their arms are linked...