Yay, our RAKS (Razia - Artemisia - Khalida - Summer Intensives) event was awesome! Pictures are starting to show up on our Facebook Fanpage, you can check them out here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Leuven-Belgium/RAKS-Razia-Artemisia-Khalida-Summer-Intensives/124039844866?ref=mf 
We are now very tired but *really* happy after four days of non-stop dancing! It was a wonderful experience, I've never seen such a big bunch of nice, enthusiastic, attentive, inspiring, earger-to-learn and funny students in one room.. Thank you *so* much to all participants!! It totally rocked!!
On the first day it was a smidgen too hot (read: we almost melted and nearly died!) but after a few days even the weather was on our side again ;) Great idea by the way from Artemisia to do our talking sessions, cooldown routine, hafla preps and zill classes outside in the park!
The hafla on Saturday was super fun too! We all got dressed up, put on our makeup together (thanks so much to Queenie and Razia for co-helping our students in their battle with the lashes) and got to watch the performances of our Package C students (who all did great!!), the organisers ;) and of course our very special guest-dancers Hilde Canoodt and Queenie! At the end of the evening we literally had to drag people off the dance floor.. These girls were just unstoppable!
On Sunday we had a few more classes, followed by a loonnng cooldown and then a short Q/A session outside again to round it up. We were overwhelmed by the positive and open responses and the enthousiasm during these four amazing days was very contageous. It was pure magic! We didn't even see the flowers and personal notes coming, so thank you so much!!!
We (Razia, Artemisia and I) will be discussing the event tomorrow once more to see how it went and what we can do for next year.. We are already bursting with ideas for the next RAKS.. So Let's do that again!!