My Americal Idol

You may think I am going to talk about David Cook, Brooke White, or how amazed I am that Amanda Overmyer made it as long as she did on season 7. But your wrong. I am talking about my good friend Julianne who has two daughters under the age of 5 and still goes to the gym daily. Yes her bar, I mean gym, serves beers by the pool and allows her to drop off her children in day care for three hours at a time... but I know Juli doesn't do that. She goes to the gym and works her butt off, and if she has a good day she will buy a bag of M & M's to share with her daughters on the way home (she gives them the ugly light brown color that nobody wants to eat even though they all taste the same-that's what good mom's do).
So this week I have decided to emulate Julianne and I have gone to the gym three out of the last four days. I swam a half mile on Sunday and I went to water aerobics class twice. The first class was easy, and today I pushed myself a little harder. The instructor asked all the "new" participants if they have taken water aerobics before. There are only three new people. The other two said no and I said I used to do water aerobics a lot. She asked if I used to take a class because it looks like I knew the moves. I told her how I used to teach water aerobics and her response was "oh" with an awkward silence and nod after that. I understand what she was thinking. When I taught at WMU I was always worried that people that had taught classes that I taught would judge me and my teaching. I wondered if they thought that I wasn't pushing them hard enough, did the WMU football players believe that I knew enough about weight training to teach them? It's hard to have people with a lot of understanding in a particular subject in your class while you teach the subject. Maybe that's why I am in the teaching field I am in. Most students in elementary through high school don't know a lot about fitness, especially ones that have special needs and just want to play with basketball with their peers.
Anyway, I just wanted to say I know it's only been one week.... but once you get in the habit of working out it's easy to keep going. Kind of like crack.... it's addicting!