Excercise Class

 I love this part of my job. We meet and workout 2 hours 3X a week. If that sounds like a lot of exercise, it does to me too. Somehow it has been really easy to do each week. We have really enjoyed working out together.

This teenager is very special to me. I met her 2 years ago working in the baby house. She has been very helpful during class to help translate for me when I get tongue tied. We also hang out on non-dance days to work on new dances.

This girl is my hip-hop princess. She loves to dance and she does a great job learning dances quickly. She always comes to class dressed for the part.

We play a game called Cross the Ocean. 2 people, known as SHARKS, stand in the middle of the room and yell, "cross the ocean". All the other people try to run across the room without getting tagged by the sharks. If you get tagged, you sit where you get tagged and use your arms to tag other people. I love this game and the girls do too.  Suckers are optional for this game.

This is me reminding the girls of the moves in the dance. It seems they don't care about my review session but notice the kid hugging the fan. That makes me feel good about the intensity of the class.

I like to use things in the room to help us workout if possible. This keeps the class interesting. Today, kid size chairs were in the room so we did leg lifts over the chairs.

We stretch at the beginning and end of the class. These girls don't seem to mind stretching which is a miracle.

This stage has many purposes here at CB. It is used by the pastor, graduation, and by me so everyone can see me shimmy in-time with the music. On another topic, the younger girls are invited to join our workout for the first hour but teenagers only for the 2nd hour of exercise.