June has been a great month, I've made great strides toward long term goals and I've refreshed friendships while keeping a focus on priorities!
In the beginning of this month I was offered a teaching position at the Rancho Penasquitos gym which is simply AMAZING to imagine. Shy Joey teaching turbo! I did awesome during my interview and I owe it to my friends at team extreme and of course Jeannette for being such positive influences and just rockin' instructors!
Who'da thunk positive reinforcement works so well?
Last week I team taught with Ai-chan round 37 at the Balboa gym. It went well! I was very worried about teaching actually because it was a brand new round and I hadn't practiced teaching it to others quite yet. I did fantastic and Ai-chan is such a champ to team-teach with! She has a great ability to be perceptually attentive to others along with her incredibly positive persona.
On friday I went up to the Escondido La Terraza 24hour to get trained in the 24hour computer system and learn the scheduling agent. I'm not able to add the east county or san diego clubs to my swapboard yet until I'm established in North County, but I look foward to when I can!
I am blown away by all the little perks that 24hour fitness offers! I was able to get the body bugg this weekend for a very low price along with some BLACK Nike shirts for camp turbo!
(bringing sexy black anyone?)
This Thursday I'm going to take off work in the morning to go team teach with Ai at College Grove at 9:00am, I'm excited as always!
My Brother turned 30 on Friday, and the family went to Marecharios in El Cajon for dinner that night. I remember LOVING that place as a kid but now it tasted like REALLY salty Italian food. I didn't enjoy it at all. Either my palette has advanced or that place has gone down hill. I also realized in general I don't eat that heavy anymore and I had an upset stomach for the majority of the night.
It was funny, we all dressed nice etc, but here is my older bro, the bday boy, wearing a construction tshirt with stains and cargo shorts. Unshaven and lookin like heck! It was funny Monica was embarrassed but when I reminded her shes the one that said "I do" for him she got MAD cause I guess thats EXACTLY what my brother tells her all the time! I guess my dad did teach us some bad habits eh? Haha
My sister brought her baby to dinner as well. It was actually crazy to see how much my sister ATE! All my life shes eaten like a BIRD but now that she's nursing she ate WAY more than I did. It was actually pretty funny to see her staring at the cake. Since when did she even like cake?
Saturday night I volunteered to be Pauls DD for his b-day festivities. We went to PB bar and grill and I got some seriously over priced tacos. The bar scene is definitely different when you're sober let me tell ya! I didn't realize how funny drunk people are, not to mention EMOTIONAL and sensitive!
I kinda made a couple realizations while eating. I typically thought I got along with most every one and hadn't really found an archtype of person that I don't get along with but I was wrong! My brother has two new friends from work that I could just NOT STAND. It was like, WOW, seriously? They had very abrasive personalities and aggressive demeanor in general which exacerbated further into the night with alcohol. I realized I have little patience for people like that, but oh well. I guess it was also a realization of something I can work on!
I mean at 29 and if you have two children, you really shouldn't care if someone bumps into you at a club. Why on earth is it important for you to go screaming after that person and threaten them? Yes they reeked of a lack of class.
I more thought of the night as a sociology experiment!
Haha, after I brought them home I watched the Dark Knight with paul in his house and crashed at home at nearly 3am.
I went to Vosh's class the next morning at Rancho and had fun with round 37 as usual. I'm READY to teach this round already!
After that I hung out with the lovely Claudia and spent the afternoon at Ivan's. I had a nice weekend actually.
Now I'm at work, and I'm looking foward to being off in the next 10 mins!
Haha
Later homies
-Joey
Monday, June 29, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
Chalene! Interview!
Chalene's class, My interview, crazy week!
Yesterday I went to college grove and took a road trip from there in Able's excursion to the OC! Team extreme crashed Chalene's class and did round 37 right from the source!
Her class is crazy and Chalene is so CRAZY! She has the best personality, she is also very welcoming and genuine I loved it! She talked to me about my audition the next day and gave me some really great pointers on making an excellent first impression and how to overcome first performance fears! It was really awesome!
We stayed for her Hip Hop Hustle class and that was very foreign to me. I really can't dance, I never have been able to, and probably never will but hey, it was fun and it was taught by THE chalene!
She says hilarious stuff while teaching too, my favorite was the "I'm not ok with the lack of passion in your booty pump." comment she made haha. She also taught up how to give a big booty illusion using our elbows. Sounds crazy I know, but it works!
After that our team decided we deserved a good lunch and went to cheesecake factory. It was really, good! We headed back and it was kind of a slow car ride back home, we were all tired from working out and eating way too much food!
This morning I had planned on going to work but I was tired and wanted to practice and practice what I was going to say before and after teaching. After kinda lounging around and practicing I headed to rancho bernardo for my interview. I met Christina, which is an AMAZING manager from what I've seen so far. Very effective and organized communicator and she did her best to make sure I understand the hiring process including pay rates, benefits etc. I liked that she was so frank about the position. It takes a lot of time and hassle out of it!
She asked me to teach an imaginary class, and I chose round 35, the round I was certified on!
I basically did the warmup and the punches section and she stopped me. She gave some great feed back on mirroring the audience, and working into the crowd to improve teacher-student connection along with how to give an incentive to return the next week. It was a great learning experience!
The best part? She loved it! I'm to contact the services manager at that gym to take care of HR business, and next week or so she is going to give me some official 24hour protocol training, but after that I'll be an official 24hour fitness employee!
How cool is that? I got the job!!
Anyway, I'm about to head home from my office, it sounds like a night to celebrate with sushi with my favorite person, CLAUDIA!!!
Her class is crazy and Chalene is so CRAZY! She has the best personality, she is also very welcoming and genuine I loved it! She talked to me about my audition the next day and gave me some really great pointers on making an excellent first impression and how to overcome first performance fears! It was really awesome!
We stayed for her Hip Hop Hustle class and that was very foreign to me. I really can't dance, I never have been able to, and probably never will but hey, it was fun and it was taught by THE chalene!
She says hilarious stuff while teaching too, my favorite was the "I'm not ok with the lack of passion in your booty pump." comment she made haha. She also taught up how to give a big booty illusion using our elbows. Sounds crazy I know, but it works!
After that our team decided we deserved a good lunch and went to cheesecake factory. It was really, good! We headed back and it was kind of a slow car ride back home, we were all tired from working out and eating way too much food!
This morning I had planned on going to work but I was tired and wanted to practice and practice what I was going to say before and after teaching. After kinda lounging around and practicing I headed to rancho bernardo for my interview. I met Christina, which is an AMAZING manager from what I've seen so far. Very effective and organized communicator and she did her best to make sure I understand the hiring process including pay rates, benefits etc. I liked that she was so frank about the position. It takes a lot of time and hassle out of it!
She asked me to teach an imaginary class, and I chose round 35, the round I was certified on!
I basically did the warmup and the punches section and she stopped me. She gave some great feed back on mirroring the audience, and working into the crowd to improve teacher-student connection along with how to give an incentive to return the next week. It was a great learning experience!
The best part? She loved it! I'm to contact the services manager at that gym to take care of HR business, and next week or so she is going to give me some official 24hour protocol training, but after that I'll be an official 24hour fitness employee!
How cool is that? I got the job!!
Anyway, I'm about to head home from my office, it sounds like a night to celebrate with sushi with my favorite person, CLAUDIA!!!
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