Skater Boi of Arabia.

I went for a lovely outing today with a few of my friends. We went to a really popular mall out here where pretty much all of the teenage population can be found hanging out on weekends. One of the main attractions of the place (it has MANY) is the skating rink. Now, this rink is no joke. It's massive, it's fancy, it holds "disco" sessions and it's pretty much always full on weekends. Usually, I go there with my best friend, Violet, just to hang out and reminisce the days when we used to take figure skating classes together (yes, I used to learn figure skating. I got pretty good too, until I stopped in the sixth grade and never went back to it for some odd reason...).

I also like going to the top floor of the mall, watching the rink from above and just observing the skaters during "disco" sessions. These sessions don't actually play disco music per say; they usually play the latest hip-hop and dance hits. The reason I love these sessions is that there are always a few guys in the rink who really know how to skate to the music... like REALLY skate to the music. Before watching the skaters in this ice-rink, I always assumed that figure skating was the only type of ice-dancing. Then, after watching these guys, I was completely taken by their amazing hip-hop dancing ON THE ICE. They wear hockey skates instead of figure-skating skates, enabling them to move really smoothly and pop to the music in fluid motions.

I could actually stand there all day just to watch those guys skate. They dance on ice like it's as simple as breathing air... hip hop, break dance and stunts. I even saw some of them doing the traditional Arabic
"debkeh" on the ice today! How cool is that?! Surprisingly enough, the only guys I see skating like this are the Arab guys. I would have expected them to think of skating as too "sissy"... but ironically, they're the ones who rule the ice! Some of them aren't too bad looking either, if you know what I mean *wink wink*.

If you're ever in the Middle East, look out for a skating rink and watch out for the skater-bois. They're hard to miss and difficult to ignore! You know what, one day I'll just walk up to one of them and ask them to teach me to dance like them! Yeah! I can be bold! Maybe. I think.

Oh whatever. Bois be skatin'.