Birth of SoSalsa!

 

I think the other founders will agree with me that the decision to start a salsa student society was made pretty quickly. But lets start at the beginning..

 

Before we ever dreamed about this great responsibility of being founders, we started taking the very first salsa class at the cultural center with Jan and Vivian. We were young and innocent then...

 

The group that did the second course started to hang out and go to parties together.

 

Then Jan en Vivian invited their students to help organize parties at the Cultural Centre, which until then was done by themselves. Eight of us were present and all of a sudden Jan asked us if we wanted to start the society. Six of us, Kees-Jan, Maurice, Melissa, Rabih, Tal and Vicki took the huge responsibility to found the society and become the first board.

 

Our goal was to create a fresh, non-traditional society which of course revolves around this fantastic dance called salsa.

 

Unfortunately we lost two board members right at the start, Rabih joined the team of Nuna 4 (which has won first prize), so he had to leave us and so did Tal. Even though it was tough on the remaining board members, the board worked like a charm! Many parties, borrels and other activities were organised and SoSalsa grew from nil to one hundred members in just one year.

 

Now SoSalsa! is a well-known society in our beautiful city of Delft and beyond! And I'm proud!

 

Kiss,

 

Vicki