My first full week has come to an end and I am exhausted. Praise the Lord we get weekends off even though we still have to make it to breakfast by 8am. The days are long but they go by quickly; this week flew by. As the work piles on each week it looks like the days and weeks will only go by faster and faster.
I taught my first Hydro Circuit class on Thursday afternoon. Cones are placed around the edge of the pool with signs on them with a different exercise at each cone. Everyone picks a station to start at and when the music gets started each station lasts 2 min before it is time to switch. The class is long enough to go through each station once at 2 min each and then again at 1 min each. All I had to do was explain how to perform the exercise at each station, turn the music on, and cue them when to switch. It was a gorgeous day so it was fun dancing around the pool edge cheering everybody on. I love watching each guest sing along to the music and working hard. At the end of class I lead them in some stretches and that was about it. It’s pretty much the easiest class to teach; hence the interns being in charge of instructing it.
Every meal here is made by a professional chef and is healthy and delicious. Each meal is portioned and the calories and grams of fat are calculated; even all of the snacks have signs next to them with how many calories and grams of fat it contains. Friday night dinners however are “gourmet dinners” so this evening because it was so nice out we had our gourmet dinner out in the courtyard. The meal is still healthy and there are still calorie and grams of fat signs placed next to each food item but it is buffet style. This way we are allowed to go back for more if we wish; instead of having our dinner given to us portioned out on a plate. We even got dessert (3 flavors of gelato)! The guests went nuts because there is no junk food, dessert, convenience foods, etc… on the grounds. If the guests want to adhere to the program they are not allowed to go out on their own and consume any liquid or food item that is not provided by the institute.
Anyway, tonight was a Hawaiian theme so many of the guests showed up with flowers in their hair, Hawaiian clothing, leis, etc… A few of the men were wearing coconut style bras over their t-shirts except instead of coconuts they were a bunch of flowers pasted on a cup. The men that wore them are some of our favorite guests. We are told not to pick favorites but how can you not? These men have the greatest sense of humors and are great conversationalists. Some of them are doctors, lawyers, businessmen, and are extremely smart. Interns are to sit at their own table away from the guests and we are served after all of the guests are served. Usually by the time we are finished with our meals the guests have gone but because we were outside this evening many guests remained in the courtyard enjoying the comfortable warmth of the evening shade. This gave us a chance to sit and chat with some of the group that we have bonded with over the last week. I have to admit I haven’t laughed as hard as I did this evening in some time. There were so many jokes and wise cracks about the flower man-bras we couldn’t contain ourselves. One man couldn’t get his untied in the back so he ended up shimmying it down around his ankles and stepping out of it like you would a pair of jeans. Oh the jokes that followed his clear lack of skill of knowing how to take off a bra. All ages, cultures, and walks of life sat around one table laughing, joking, and enjoying each others company.
A phenomenal way to end the week; laughter and gelato!
I taught my first Hydro Circuit class on Thursday afternoon. Cones are placed around the edge of the pool with signs on them with a different exercise at each cone. Everyone picks a station to start at and when the music gets started each station lasts 2 min before it is time to switch. The class is long enough to go through each station once at 2 min each and then again at 1 min each. All I had to do was explain how to perform the exercise at each station, turn the music on, and cue them when to switch. It was a gorgeous day so it was fun dancing around the pool edge cheering everybody on. I love watching each guest sing along to the music and working hard. At the end of class I lead them in some stretches and that was about it. It’s pretty much the easiest class to teach; hence the interns being in charge of instructing it.
Every meal here is made by a professional chef and is healthy and delicious. Each meal is portioned and the calories and grams of fat are calculated; even all of the snacks have signs next to them with how many calories and grams of fat it contains. Friday night dinners however are “gourmet dinners” so this evening because it was so nice out we had our gourmet dinner out in the courtyard. The meal is still healthy and there are still calorie and grams of fat signs placed next to each food item but it is buffet style. This way we are allowed to go back for more if we wish; instead of having our dinner given to us portioned out on a plate. We even got dessert (3 flavors of gelato)! The guests went nuts because there is no junk food, dessert, convenience foods, etc… on the grounds. If the guests want to adhere to the program they are not allowed to go out on their own and consume any liquid or food item that is not provided by the institute.
Anyway, tonight was a Hawaiian theme so many of the guests showed up with flowers in their hair, Hawaiian clothing, leis, etc… A few of the men were wearing coconut style bras over their t-shirts except instead of coconuts they were a bunch of flowers pasted on a cup. The men that wore them are some of our favorite guests. We are told not to pick favorites but how can you not? These men have the greatest sense of humors and are great conversationalists. Some of them are doctors, lawyers, businessmen, and are extremely smart. Interns are to sit at their own table away from the guests and we are served after all of the guests are served. Usually by the time we are finished with our meals the guests have gone but because we were outside this evening many guests remained in the courtyard enjoying the comfortable warmth of the evening shade. This gave us a chance to sit and chat with some of the group that we have bonded with over the last week. I have to admit I haven’t laughed as hard as I did this evening in some time. There were so many jokes and wise cracks about the flower man-bras we couldn’t contain ourselves. One man couldn’t get his untied in the back so he ended up shimmying it down around his ankles and stepping out of it like you would a pair of jeans. Oh the jokes that followed his clear lack of skill of knowing how to take off a bra. All ages, cultures, and walks of life sat around one table laughing, joking, and enjoying each others company.
A phenomenal way to end the week; laughter and gelato!
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