Before I get to my emotional day -- here's a brief summary of how my week went - last week that is.
Monday -- the usual - my day began with EMZ with Jocie De Corte, Binni Burns & Tessi Tolutau as guests. Jocie is a friend whom I met through Facebook first (all because of Zumba). She is my first guest Zumba instructor to ever visit my class. Little do others know, I owe her a lot. She is the one who helped Zumba greats such as Lindsey Taylor to my class. I love when Jocie visits because not only does she give a kick butt workout, I love to watch and learn.
Later that evening, after work, I rushed home to get my things together to rush off to a clubhouse where I was holding weigh-ins for my fourth weight loss challenge. My friend Lila Latu helped me out by making arrangements for us to use the clubhouse at the apartment complex her husbands works at. Lila is a such a sweet lady who I too met through Zumba. Actually Haloti and her husband are related, but I never met Lila until Zumba. We had a good turnout. The competition will be split into two groups - men's & women's. Each group will have a first, second & third place winner determined by who lost the most body weight percentage wise. First place is $1000, 2nd place $500 and third place $250. It cost each participant $40 to enter. Final weigh in is April 30th. I can't wait until then. I always look forward to seeing the final results.
Tuesday & Wednesday - the usual - EMZ, work and then home. I do have to say, the Friday prior & past Monday, we've had guests teach the full hour at EMZ. It felt great to be back in the swing with my every day instructors and it was great to hear some of the students say the same.
Thursday. It was kind of my break down day. I'm not sure why, but I was an emotional wreck. Maybe it had to do with my morning at EMZ. On Thursday morning, we had guests from Hot Hula come out to do a Hot Hula demo promoting their master class they have coming up. After coordinating with them, we had it planned that they would do the first half hour. Class began fine with them doing a warm up. Everyone seemed happy. Well, soon after the warm up, they went into their class format teaching the siva. They broke the siva down into pieces, slowly adding a motion after motion. The class was impatient. I could tell they were not having it. One individual came up to the stage and told the HH instructors, "just teach the whole song and we'll follow". The poor HH instructor did that. As she was, I could hear the crowd yelling, "c'mon we want to sweat". I felt so bad for the HH instructors. The incident reminded me of my job at Murray and when I was let go due to the lack of numbers. It reminded of me someone getting 'booed' off the stage. It reminded me of how I would feel if that was me. I felt so, so bad. I think the HH instructor caught on and before the half hour was over, turned to us and asked if we wanted to take over with Zumba. In the meantime, the instructor in charge of the music was getting things ready for the switch. I grabbed the mic to thank the HH instructors and in the meantime as I was doing so, I could hear my mom yelling different things. Those that know my mom know how she is. I was filled with all sorts of emotions and to be quite honest, what I wanted to do the most was yell out "shutup already". But out of respect, I stood there and I probably had the dirtiest look on my face. I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty sure I did. Trying not to lose my cool and say something disrespectful, all I could say was "let's try and be respectful to our guests". I unplugged the mic, walked off the stage. I stayed off to the side in disbelief. I couldn't believe what just happened. I think parts of me was somewhat disappointed in the group. In parts because little do they know, everyone has heard and talked so much about the EMZ Crew - how wonderful they are, how positive, full of energy they are...and yet, here they were yelling at the guests. The whole day kind of spiraled downwards. I felt like I didn't want to do EMZ anymore. I didn't want to deal with this kind of drama. I was tired of hearing all the complaints of this and that. I was ready to throw in the towel.
But fortunately, I have others who were able to listen to me vent, offer some good advice and let me be for just a minute. I am happy to say that at the end of Thursday evening, my attitude changed and I wanted to continue with EMZ. Hopefully the incident that occurred was a learning experience for all of us.
Later that evening, after work, I rushed home to get my things together to rush off to a clubhouse where I was holding weigh-ins for my fourth weight loss challenge. My friend Lila Latu helped me out by making arrangements for us to use the clubhouse at the apartment complex her husbands works at. Lila is a such a sweet lady who I too met through Zumba. Actually Haloti and her husband are related, but I never met Lila until Zumba. We had a good turnout. The competition will be split into two groups - men's & women's. Each group will have a first, second & third place winner determined by who lost the most body weight percentage wise. First place is $1000, 2nd place $500 and third place $250. It cost each participant $40 to enter. Final weigh in is April 30th. I can't wait until then. I always look forward to seeing the final results.
Tuesday & Wednesday - the usual - EMZ, work and then home. I do have to say, the Friday prior & past Monday, we've had guests teach the full hour at EMZ. It felt great to be back in the swing with my every day instructors and it was great to hear some of the students say the same.
Thursday. It was kind of my break down day. I'm not sure why, but I was an emotional wreck. Maybe it had to do with my morning at EMZ. On Thursday morning, we had guests from Hot Hula come out to do a Hot Hula demo promoting their master class they have coming up. After coordinating with them, we had it planned that they would do the first half hour. Class began fine with them doing a warm up. Everyone seemed happy. Well, soon after the warm up, they went into their class format teaching the siva. They broke the siva down into pieces, slowly adding a motion after motion. The class was impatient. I could tell they were not having it. One individual came up to the stage and told the HH instructors, "just teach the whole song and we'll follow". The poor HH instructor did that. As she was, I could hear the crowd yelling, "c'mon we want to sweat". I felt so bad for the HH instructors. The incident reminded me of my job at Murray and when I was let go due to the lack of numbers. It reminded of me someone getting 'booed' off the stage. It reminded me of how I would feel if that was me. I felt so, so bad. I think the HH instructor caught on and before the half hour was over, turned to us and asked if we wanted to take over with Zumba. In the meantime, the instructor in charge of the music was getting things ready for the switch. I grabbed the mic to thank the HH instructors and in the meantime as I was doing so, I could hear my mom yelling different things. Those that know my mom know how she is. I was filled with all sorts of emotions and to be quite honest, what I wanted to do the most was yell out "shutup already". But out of respect, I stood there and I probably had the dirtiest look on my face. I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty sure I did. Trying not to lose my cool and say something disrespectful, all I could say was "let's try and be respectful to our guests". I unplugged the mic, walked off the stage. I stayed off to the side in disbelief. I couldn't believe what just happened. I think parts of me was somewhat disappointed in the group. In parts because little do they know, everyone has heard and talked so much about the EMZ Crew - how wonderful they are, how positive, full of energy they are...and yet, here they were yelling at the guests. The whole day kind of spiraled downwards. I felt like I didn't want to do EMZ anymore. I didn't want to deal with this kind of drama. I was tired of hearing all the complaints of this and that. I was ready to throw in the towel.
But fortunately, I have others who were able to listen to me vent, offer some good advice and let me be for just a minute. I am happy to say that at the end of Thursday evening, my attitude changed and I wanted to continue with EMZ. Hopefully the incident that occurred was a learning experience for all of us.
I still love EMZ & the crew. I still love what I do and realize that it's not always going to be smooth sailing.
This past weekend I was able to catch a friends' Zumba class. It was totally motivating for me. Attending her class reminded me of where I want to be with Zumba, what I need to do to get there and hope that I can take it to her level.
Saturday & today was filled with listening to talks at Stake Conference. The messages shared were a reminder to me of what I need to do - prioritize and get things back in order again.
Here's to a new week!
This past weekend I was able to catch a friends' Zumba class. It was totally motivating for me. Attending her class reminded me of where I want to be with Zumba, what I need to do to get there and hope that I can take it to her level.
Saturday & today was filled with listening to talks at Stake Conference. The messages shared were a reminder to me of what I need to do - prioritize and get things back in order again.
Here's to a new week!
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2 comments:
awww Sinai, that's terrible. :/ It's hard to not be able to control what others say huh. I'm glad you did speak out and let them know how rude they were being. I think ur an amazing leader, instructor, person in general. Keep doing EMZ, and hopefully they will learn from your great example. Love ya!!
Sinai your awesome and you've done great with EMZ, sometimes people get caught up in the routine of things and like EMZ to be the way they've always had it, I know it was different for me to have new instructors but you learn to live and adjust, and I would never want anyone to feel "booed" off or anything... I've actually been thinking a lot about coming back, I really do miss it.. Or maybe it's cause I came across "fute" and "Danza kuduro" on my iTunes and I reminisced about those good ol days lol... Anyhow, keep up the good work, the amount of time, service and sacrifice you give is astounding and you'll always be blessed for it! Much love!! :)
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