How to deal with a monkey in your Zumba class?

At this point of the game, I was thinking I have seen it all and deal with all kinds of situation during a Zumba Fitness class. However today I experienced a brand-new situation that maybe only has happened to people such as the Zumba ZES masters such as Eliza Stone or Braulio Cruz or Zumba Yoda Beto Perez. Some of them need to answer it for future references:

What happens if at the middle of the Zumba Class a monkey comes to the dance floor?

Well that happened to me today:

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We watched the jungle book with the kids from Vida Nueva Shelter

 “Look for the bare necessities

The simple bare necessities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the bare necessities
Old Mother Nature’s recipes
That brings the bare necessities of life

I can’t take that song out of my head. Neither the one that says “You see it’s true, I wanna be like you, I wanna talk like you, walk you, iuuuuuu du bi du bi du ba” I went last Sunday with the kids of the Casa Hogar Vida Nueva to see the Jungle Book. I so wanted to see this movie and it was cool that I was able to do this with the kids. We were supposed to take them to the theater as I told you on my previous blog, but then for some reasons, the show was canceled. We already had the permit to take the kids out. Althought I was very tired from the Salsa Mambo Fest and our coordinator Cecy was unable to attend the event that sunday, we decided to carry on and take them to watch the movie instead. This week I am hosting Jazz, from Couchsurfing. As she is very fluent in Spanish (She is German) I decided to invite her. Other friends: Sujel, Blanca, etc. joined as well.

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