{"id":14816,"date":"2026-04-21T23:03:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14816"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:07:51","slug":"raaef-ahmed-fly-dance-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2026\/04\/21\/raaef-ahmed-fly-dance-studio","title":{"rendered":"Raaef Ahmed: Fly Dance Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14819\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0579-590x471.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0579-590x471.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0579-193x154.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0579-768x613.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0579-376x300.jpg 376w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0579.jpg 1510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9721-1.mov\">Igloo &#8211; Kiss of Life<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For my CIP, I took k-pop dance classes at a dance studio every week. I went to the same two lessons each week, one with a friend, and the other by myself.<\/p>\n<p>It was a lot of fun; I loved learning new choreo each class, and just getting to continue doing dance during my study abroad. Also, since I had the same two instructors each week, I was able to build a good relationship with both of them.<\/p>\n<p>At first, especially in the class that I just went to on my own, I was a little intimidated, because there were some regulars that the instructor already knew well, and trying to add to their conversations with the added pressure of the language barrier was pretty hard. I think the solution is to start with things that you already have in common (in this case, anything about k-pop), and then over time you&#8217;ll become comfortable enough to talk about whatever comes to mind. Everyone is also super welcoming, they were always happy to reexplain whenever I didn&#8217;t understand something, and never got impatient when it took me some time to figure out how to say what I wanted to in Japanese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Igloo &#8211; Kiss of Life For my CIP, I took k-pop dance classes at a dance studio every week. I went to the  &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2026\/04\/21\/raaef-ahmed-fly-dance-studio\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":746,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_locale":"ja","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14816"},"categories":[184,7,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14823,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions\/14823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}