Swim Lessons!

Another busy week and weekend!  I did a lot of training, yoga, and swim teaching! 

Wednesday I drove the kids to athletics and watched some races and events.  They were learning to do relay-type things with the 5-year-olds, just with half of them on one side of a straight away and the other half on the other in 2 teams.  Libby ran the whole length with her hand out ready to tag, slowing her down just a bit.  At least she was helping the other person get going more quickly!!  Thursday night I went to yoga, Friday morning I went to yoga, and then rushed back to get the 12:10 ferry to make sure I was at the outdoor pool at Takapuna primary school before 1pm.  The Belmont Swim Academy started through Steve Lindsey Swim School.  Basically, a group of 26 9-10-year-olds came for lessons as part of their school day.  We somehow managed to get them oranized into three different levels so each of us had close to 10 kids!  It was pretty much madness but fun and the kids seemed to get semi-organized by the end.  This week, we'll be helping them practice with snorkel and fins and then the week after that we'll be swimming in the ocean at Narrow Neck beach.  

Saturday morning I went back to the Takapuna primary school pool for lessons from 9-12, much more manageable with classes of no more than 5 kids for me to teach.  I've come to the general conclusion that Kiwi kids just do not listen.  They just sort of do what they please.  They are more polite, but don't listen well, whereas American children listen better to instructions but are more rude as well.  Strange comparison, but I guess they all have to find their own ways of being challenging!  After the lessons I came home for some lunch and then headed down to Narrow Neck for some tri training.  I met Jenny and we did a swim in the choppy seas out to a marker buoy and then back at an angle then did the run course and then I showed her the cycle route in her car since she didn't have her bike.  I did the cycle route after and then cycled home, showered and went to Jacques' friend's leaving bbq.  Later on I met Sophie, Astrid and Jenny in Takapuna, where not a lot was going on.  There was a pretty cool party at Cafe Massimo with an outdoor dance floor, but other than that, the Takapuna nightlife was pretty dead as usual! 

This morning, I taught Jake, Sharon the yoga teacher's son, a swim lesson at Takapuna, something we'll continue every week from now on!  Then she brought me into the studio where we met some other people for a photo shoot.  They want some new photos for their website, and they are also making a GrabOne voucher for beginner classes, so I may end up on the advertisement for that online!  Watch HERE to see if it appears!

Tomorrow, I start my bar course in the evening, and doing some beginning yoga teaching in the morning after dropping the kids at school.  I think I'll mostly be helping make adjustments to people who aren't in the correct positioning.  Looks like another busy week ahead! Oh I'll have to start doing some early morning swimming as well, since I won't have time in the evenings! Yikes!