The bright lights and big stages of Los Angeles did not intimidate the velskoen-clad youngsters from the tiny town of Wupperthal in the Cederberg mountains. It was the cars that gave them the jitters. Die Nuwe Graskoue Trappers - a 15-member dance troupe that performed the riel dance, one of the oldest dance forms in South Africa, at the World Championships of Performing Arts in Long Beach in California - returned home with 13 medals yesterday."Those people on that side ... their cars [drive] on the right," said wide-eyed Jobry Swart, 17, after touching down at Cape Town International."At every robot you must cross there or you get a fine. But the food was fantastic, and your stomach has to adapt to all the food they give to you. They didn't actually have braaivleis, so I missed boerewors and chops," he said.Swart's greatest hope was to swing a scholarship, which he did - a one-month dance award with the Millennium Dance Complex in Hollywood."I was very excited. I know the scholarship will open doors for me," he said.Choreographer Floris Smith said the competition was tough."It's one thing competing on a national stage, and quite another when you're over there and you know you're competing with the best of the best. You just don't know what to expect."I think it was intimidating when our guys saw the dancers out there doing the stretches with their choreographers. That came across so professionally, but it didn't get us down. We prevailed and came home with the gold."The group won four gold medals, seven silver and two bronze, and two division trophies. It also won gold in ethnic folk and tap dance categories...