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Yippie! It's Friday. The weekend is HERE!

I'm not sure why today is SO exciting for me. Maybe it's because I had such a great night last night. We had the FIRST "Burrito Project South Pasadena" this year. We will NOW continue to meet for the rest of the year & host this event on the 3rd Thursday of EVERY month. If you happen to be in the Pasadena area, I hope you drop in to lend a hand.

Maybe I'm SUPER excited because I am also teaching my "Dance Boot Camp" this weekend. This really counts as Week 1 of 3, so if you happen to read this posting this weekend, I hope you join us for an amazing class. I plan to put on a "Dance Boot Camp" every few months, so  if you missed this one, be sure to catch the next one.

I'm also really motivated to start training for the Wildflower Triathlon in May. I've scheduled small events to help get me prepared. There's the Firecracker 10k Run at the end of this month. There's also the LA Marathon in the middle of March.

The event that really has me pumped up is the Warrior Dash in April. It's a 3-mile run with 12 obstacles including fire, barbed wire & lots of mud. If you check out the Warrior Dash FaceBook Event Link you'll be able to save $5 on the sign-up fee.

I am also teaching a beginning/intermediate Salsa Dance Class at the newest Salsa Club in the San Gabriel Valley on Wednesday nights at "3 Vino's Restaurant". The lesson is FREE with your meal and/or drink purchase. Otherwise, the class is only $10. The lesson starts at 8:30pm and the DJ will start spinning his salsa tunes immediately after class. "3 Vino's Restaurant" is a great place to hang out, practice your dance moves & dance with some amazing dancers. See you on the dance floor.

Wow! I'm excited about ALL the activities coming up in the next few months. It's time to start working out. Here we go!

One last thing. I'm also planning a dinner party. Should I do an "Ethiopian Dinner" or "Indian Dinner" first? I'll start taking a poll & keep you posted on my next writing. =)

Have a fabulous day!

Tofu Alan

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This video shows the winner of "Ukraine’s Got Talent", Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch.

The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about £75,000. She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.

It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears. She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.

This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house. In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye.

The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million.

Kseniya Simonova says: "I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment."