Last Friday, I went to the Mercury Cafe for the 7-9:30 lesson. It was quite a lot of fun! We learned a double time step. I found that it was hard for me to lead the step though. I felt like I was giving the attention to move faster, but  a lot of the times, it didn't work. However there were a few followers who I could do it with so that was exciting. We also learned a pivot step which I thought was cool. It involved giving the intention to move the woman backward, but before she took the step back, pivoting her back around into a front-ocho-esk style step. I stayed after the lesson for the milonga with Jared, Camilla, Carmen, and Maddy. Early on in the night, I asked Carmen to dance a tanda because there weren't too many people on the dance floor yet. It was quite a lot of fun, although I struggled a little bit with the line of dance. After that dance though, the floor got quite crowded and it was intimidating to dance. So I just observed couples dancing and talked with the others in the class. It was quite a nice evening!