Why is it that I took 2 pairs of shoes for a 2 month long trip through Iceland, France and Spain, and am taking 3 for a 2 day trip to Gorzów Wielkopolski (a town in Poland)?
How come I have more changes of clothes for this weekend than I had for those 8 weeks? @_@
Oh, 'cause I'll be sweating my cute butt off during all the Zumba activities in the coming 36 hours, that's why.
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Am about to leave my place and go to my parents' place, as I'm getting picked up at midnight from a McDonald's parking lot 2 mins away from their flat. Then the estimated 7 hours in the car to arrive in Gorzów early in the morning, get breakfast and start a Zumba Gold training at around 8:30am. Get trained till 5pm or so and then immediately participate in a 3 hour long Zumba marathon, which I'll be kind of co-hosting for a song ("Sexy Movimiento" - very fitting, if you ask me). Apparently, there'll be an after party in the evening but I very much doubt I'll have and strenght left in me to continue the party in some club.
Originally, I was supposed to take another training on Sunday (Zumba Aqua beginning at 7:30am...) but have decided against it two days ago. The truth is, I registered for it only because it was the only training of this type in the following year, so I wanted to be one of the few instructors in Warsaw certified to give the class. I paid the 250$ it cost and felt pretty good about myself. Yet I started thinking - I neither really want to work at a pool, nor do I need another title. Too bad I realised it 4 days before the training, because now I had to block the money on my account and have two options: 1. ask for a refund and pay a fee of 75$ or 2. move the money to a different training and pay the fee of 15$. There's a Zumbatomic (for kids) training coming up in July and I know there's a big demand for such a kind of classes but when I started thinking about it, I'm not really sure I wanna be teaching kids. So there's no point getting a certificate for the certificate's sake.
Also, was planning to mostly try living off Zumba in the following months but I can already see that, although a lot of fun and quite gratifying when I see how much women like my classes, it's not enough. I need and miss intelectual stimulation. Having said that, I want to spruce up my CV and, well, for the first time in my life, look for a job. My attitude towards certain things has been changing so much lately, it's all been one big rollercoaster. However, I think a longer straight road's ahead, regardless of whichever this issue gets resolved in the end.
Ideally, I'd love to be doing something part-time, so I could still have a decent amount of Zumba classes and be making my way up in the community, building a name for myself among Zumba lovers and hopefully be going places. But now I desperately need some challenges outside of the danceroom, so I'll take an interesting full time position without a blink.
Anybody knows an employer who could benefit from a flexible, ambitious, eager to learn, well-travelled employee with great people skills, more or less fluent in 4 languages? Shoot me an email!
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Food for the road and tomorrow's lunch is ready (couscous with raisins, cranberries, almonds and honey with milk/ rice pasta with avocado, surimi, fried sprouts and seeds+sesame), the huge 5l water bottle as well. All shoes ready and set to go.
Enough of the blabber, time to hit the road!
Just out of interest, when you write '250$' in this endearingly Latin-American style, do you actually mean 250 US-style dollars? or is this a more interesting way of writing 'zloty'? ;) USD$250 seems like a heckuva lot to pay for an instructor qualification, which as I recall didn't take you six months or more to complete...
ReplyDeleteI wish I were using $ to talk about zł. It's 250$ for a 6hour training, during most of which you don't do all that much... The first one, Zumba Basic cost me 405$.
ReplyDeleteYes, USD.