gym coach. that's what i am.
my job is perfect, i come home all peppy afterwards simply because it is so great! i love talking to the kids about everything and anything they can think of. i love teaching them new tricks and seeing their eyes light up when they finally grasp how to do it by themselves. i even get to do really cool stuff like go to Mesa with the older girls...
on the 6th of this month i woke up really early to ride my bike to the gym (this is also the morning my tire popped on my bike. so i got a ride with Jaz) (another side note story- my room mate Jazmyn is working at the gym now too. she doesnt have a load of hours but its something to help pay for food every month!)
anyway! early morning at the gym. we load up all the little girls (8-10) into a little bus, while the older girls (12-17) all jump into Heidi's car. (Heidi is my boss).
i end up being in charge of chaperoning the bus. a three hour ride with all these little girls really didn't sound like fun but i'm no stranger to cramped loud car rides. so i brushed off the annoyed feeling. we get about an hour into the trip- on those tight roads in the mountains when we run into a huge accident. it was a scary enough accident to have 3 air evac. helicopters come to pick up injured people. so we sat in a backed up line of cars for about 2 hours, until the road cleared. at this point everyone was restless and curious and straight up insane. it was okay though- we just popped in the Taylor Swift CD for the 8th time and then focus was averted.. oh little girls..
so we finally pull into the gym in Mesa area. everyone runs in and throws on Leos and we start our workout!
this was no workout i had ever done. workouts i had attended as a kid we structured and had purpose. this however was completely different. we gave them free reign of the gym. so some girls went to bars, other girls just played in the pits, some of them spent the whole time on the trampolines, they were everywhere. i guess the idea was that since we dont have this equipment they were suposed to try it all. and as coaches we were suposed to float around and help with different things and spread our knowledge about whatever the heck they were working on.
all in all it was a really interesting trip. but i felt like it was good for me to get to know the girls better.
another really awesome thing i got to do with my work was the parade! we walked along behind a float of our preschool and little tumblers classes and when ever the float would stop, we would back up and tumble. i mostly ran along side of the girls to make sure they wouldn't bulk last second and eat pavement.
i had a blast, and i even have an official coach shirt now! how cool is that?
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