It's like I've put my bathing suit on 3 times in the past few weeks ready to lay by the pool and every single time I'm just about to go it pourrrrrs. I'm currently in my swimsuit right now and refuse to take it off because I'm still mad. I feel like I should be Mary Poppins and carry around an umbrella everywhere I go.
I just started teaching Zumba a few weeks ago and is going lovely! I was only used to teaching once a week back at Grand Valley but here I am teaching 3-4 days a week, either 30 or 45 minute classes. I was a little bit nervous about it just because I wasn't sure what they expected. It seemed like I have been thrown into all spectrums. GVSU liked the fun new stuff, my internship at East Hills Athletic Club in Grand Rapids was very intense and wanted the best of the best, and here they just basically want to follow along. It's nice to take the stress out of it and have a relaxing class!
What made me already start to enjoy this class is how much the members enjoy it already. The gym is super small, so the class averages around 4 or 5 people. I took one Hip Hop class they had the first week I was here and one of the instructors continued to say, "Smile!" over and over again. When I taught my first class I would naturally look up and see every single person in the class grinning from ear to ear. That just makes class about 192x better. Seeing them smile makes me smile. A smile is contagious! I will definitely say that the most interesting part was teaching the 6:30am class.. that was definitely a first! Or maybe it was more interseting that my second song to my warm-up is "Don't Wake me Up" by Chris Brown and I chuckle to myself every time.
It's so incredibly crazy that I actually enjoy my 5:30am shift...or shall I rephrase "enjoy" to prefer. I have worked the afternoon-ish shifts which is from 11:30-8pm and MUCH rather take the 5:30-2pm shift. I'm very surprised I'm even saying that, however, you can easily see there is so much more to do in the day when you end at 2pm compared to 8pm. The hardest part isn't so much waking up, but it's going to bed around 9/10pm...especially when I'm so used to going to bed around 2/3am! Quite a difference, there. It's also nice because the other intern wants the afternoon shift because he grew up here so he doesn't really care about the parks- whereas I'm able to go every day if I want!
I've already done so much here, and I've just been here a month. But boy, does time fly! I have a whole "to-do" list from when I left here last time and I'm pretty sure I've only done about 3 things off of it out of about 20.. eeeek lots more to come!
I heard there's been lots of rain in Michigan lately. Stay covered!
