I'm so excited...

I'm so excited, I'm so excited, I'm so... so... scared!

Ok, not really, I can just never say "I'm so excited" without thinking of the Saved by the bell episode where Jessi Spano takes too many caffeine pills can totally flips out while dancing around to that song. You know you've seen it and you know you think it's funny... I know there was supposed to be an important lesson to that episode but I never got it, i always just thought it was hilarious... If you haven't seen it, here it is... ok maybe it's not as funny as it used to be...



Anyway, yes, I am excited. Here is why. I have secretly been plotting my future. I plan on eventually getting out of engineering but I realized that I can nor necessarily want to do right now. However, I decided I need to start dancing again, in addition to taking classes I decided I wanted to teach again but being that I don't have a "degree" in it or anything I decided a good place to start was to start teaching a dance aerobics class at my gym. I had been thinking about this for months but didn't really know a way to approach the gym owner. Could i really just walk up and say "Hey, i used to dance, can I start teaching a hip-hop class". I felt i couldn't so I didn't. Anyway then one day I found out about Zumba, it's a "Latin Dance Fitness" craze. On a whim decided I was just going to be come an instructor. I talked to my gym owner and he was super excited about me starting a Zumba class so I paid my 200 for the 8 hour training even though I had never taken a Zumba class.

The training was awesome and realized that this is going to be big. People are gonna love Zumba. I was planning that once I had a few months instructing at my gym I could find a space to rent and get a class doing on a "drop in basis". There is actually a decent amount of money in that, one coudl make $100-$200/hour depending on the class size. I was planning this for late spring/summer.

Apparently this is happening soon than I thought! I got a random e-mail today from a guy, Jim... It said:

Hi Lynn, We are seeking a Zumba instructor to teach at our new studio, please contact me ASAP if you are interested, currently we still some primie evening hrs open. 1600sqft in Belltown Seattle. Our New studio is located at a very upscale street level of Centennial Towers (corner of 4th and Vine St), we have high ceiling lots of windows, laminate floating floor, 2 walls of mirrors, sound system, I'm seeking solid instructors who has very positive energy, not only know how to motivate the students but know how to market their own classes as well. You may rent our studio by the hour or by commission.

How cool is that? I don't have to do any work! I don't have to find a space or anything AND because the studio will already have a client base, I will have to do a lot less marketing than I would have to plan if it was just me! The thing I like most is his description of what he is looking for in an instructor. When i was taking the "master class" during the training all these ideas came in to my head. I knew that I had to make my class more than just an aerobics class. My class needs to ultra fun, positive and motivational. I e-mailed him back, in part, this:

I have recently gone through some transitions in my life and I am striving on positive energy. I want my class to be a place where people come to enjoy themselves for an hour. In the studio, I want them to feel perfect, even if just for 1 hour and my hope is that eventually they will carry that feeling out into the world. I want them to jiggle what they don't like jigging and shake what they normally wont shake and feel good about it! We both know zumba is an amazing work out but I want weigh loss to be secondary, I want fun and positive self image to be my primary focus!

So yeah, this will be a perfect fit. Hopefully it will work out but if not, whatev, I just go back to my original plan! What's even more exited is that this is actually a dance studio not a gym. Things are def heading in a certain direction!

Yippy! I'll keep you posted!

Talk to ya all later!

UPDATE: I'm meeting with Jim-bo Saturday at 6 to "show him what i got", I will prob have some competition for the time slots... wish me luck!