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| I tried to write a post on my phone earlier but the device died and I lost it all. Anyways, hi, I'm alive. Yearly update time I guess. This is somewhat chronologically/topically organized, since I feel like either not much happened or everything happened at once. I left off in late September 2022, so my biggest news for October 2022 is, I was invited to be a Bar Method teacher on Halloween for my home (main) studio!!! I'm lucky/excited because the owner had come in to teach class that morning (it was a Monday, one of my usual 6:15am shifts) and at the end of class she came out and asked me if I wanted to teach. She preceded it with, "there's something I want to talk to you about, " and in my Lululemon days, that was never a good thing. I was a sitting ball of nerves for those next 45 minutes- I made sure to do my job *really well* that morning  She opened the conversation with "I've heard from multiple sources now that you want to teach," and then we discussed if I planned on staying local, moving out to LA, moving to Australia or planned to leave in general within the next year or so, and I reassured her I wanted to stay local. She listed a few teachers who she would be okay with training me, and I was excited when she named the family friend. (That friend and I have gotten close through bar method and she's said she'd train me if/when the time came) and naturally, that friend was the first person I texted about the news.  I also told my class and they spontaneously applauded for me! 8 year-olds are so sweet.  November was a blur, I was likely memorizing the warmup scripts madly and trying to commit them to memory. December was much of the same, and I went to Texas to see Child and Baby. One of the Zoom bar teachers from weho captured an adorable shot of me holding Baby while Child and I are doing a Bar move. I started formal training in January, went through the intensive corporate training shortly after my birthday in March, and then started teaching practice classes. In Mid-December, the physical studio space for bar weho burned down. It was on top of a restaurant and someone left a stove on overnight so everything went up in flames. I started committing more to my aerial practice since the two studios were right down the street from each other and I leveled up to beginner-intermediate (in my own rankings). I attended/participated in a sequencing workshop for aerial in April where I learned how to better connect my moves and tricks together. But on the last week of the workshop, I fell out of a pose and dislocated my shoulder.  Don't read this if you're prone to heebie jeebies . I now have relatively tight outer right triceps. If anyone is in PT or knows how long this is supposed to last, please enlighten me. I'm tired of it catching and feeling tight!A few weeks later Weho cut me from the zoom demo team. I was devastated, because of the suddenness of it. I missed a Sunday night email from the owner about no longer needing me, and on Monday I was unable to sign up for any more classes because they took my employee pass off. For a while I thought that it had expired, because that happened to me with my other studio, but when a friend helped me reinstate my pass, she got in trouble for doing it! Oops. That was when I saw the email, essentially thanking me for my work and bidding me good luck and goodbye . However, I've come out of the experience with some solid friendships with a few Weho teachers, and I'm extremely grateful to them. One of them, we were close acquaintances, but this experience solidified our friendship and we ended up talking on the phone for 3 hours that night, supporting each other and catching up. (Imagine that, ME, Talking, On A Phone, for 3 hours nonetheless at midnight on a Monday!) We've had many midnight calls since, talking about everything, and truly, it's so NICE to have IRL friends to talk with on a phone even if it's for 3 hours and at midnight. She's also very all-things-Hollywood,and was most recently in JungKook's music video for "Seven" (linked below  )I wrapped up my long-term subbing in March, a week before spring break. (Who comes back to teach 2 months before the school year ends anyways? I have thoughts on that!) After that, I subbed around. A Bar friend referred me to her principal for a middle school math position. He lik e what I had to offer, and her recommendation, but I don't have the right credential/certificate for the position so the district won't let me have the position. I took 6 units of math this summer and am signed up for another 14 in the fall. Fun times. Thankfully the 3-hour phone call friend LIKES math so we'll be doing a lot of it together this fall/she'll be helping me out if I'm struggling with concepts. She teaches on Tuesday nights so it's going to be our math night when I go take her class and then we math afterwards.  I've accepted that my Napa trip last year for the Bottlerock festival is likely going to be an annual thing. But It's Going To Be MY annual thing, as in I will not be taking friends along. I did that this year and they weren't a great travel partner. I got to see Jax, Lizzo, and Carly Rae Jepsen this year. Other concerts coming up: Delta in September, Pink in October, a country festival also in September. Delta fans are starting to mwk3 friendship bracelets to trade with each other, like Taylor Swift fans do/did, so I'll be jumping on that bandwagon too. I scored last minute, day-before tickets to Taylor Swift's opening night! Due to the last minute nature, I didn't make bracelets to trade but someone was still nice enough to give me one for "Enchanted" in the merch lines. I've started making some to sell for the 2nd leg of the US tour and I've learned my lesson here where I'm definitely making some for the Delta tour to trade! Annnnd I think my biggest news would be, I am OFFICIALLY a Bar Method teacher as of late May, right before I left for my Napa and the ensuing Australia trip. I found out the day before I left for Napa, a Friday. I returned to SoCal on Sunday, flew out to Australia for 2 weeks on Monday, and then started teaching my real classes after 2 weeks of no practice. Now I teach both the classic 60 minute format and the express, 45 minute format. My favorite is the express because I get to mix it up and kick butts! I taught one tonight and by the end everyone was red-faced and dying. That's how I know I did my job well.  I've grown so much (internally and somewhat externally) this year and I'm excited to see what happens next!  byeee [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] |
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