Instructing

Something that i am “geek out” by would be teaching little kids. For the past five years I have worked at a Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Houston and was promoted to instructor coordinator my second year working at the J. Becoming the Swim coordinator was a huge blessing. I have so much love and energy for my students, that includes adults, and it just makes me abetter person honestly. 

I’m obsess over the fact that every summer i get returning students or even new students that are trying out the camps and private lessons. I work with students as little as one and half or just turned two, to twelve years old and then sim team is around seven years to eighteen , and my private sessions range from new borns to elderly. I love teaching because i love to see progress in my kids through out the lesson. One thing that always gets me up in the morning is as soon as the kids come out and usually my retuning students always run to me and just yell my name in excitement. Another one of my favorite things that happen is that since I am an older instructor and have more experience than my fellow instructors that i taught I always get handed the babies, and sometimes toddlers that have never stepped foot into a body of water other than their bathtub at home. These students that have the fear of drowning makes me love what I do, It may sound bad but i swear its not. Something about these students that just met me a day ago I even 30-10 min before class and now they have to trust me with their life? There a lot of screaming i can tell you that. However, When you can connect with a child on a different level and let them know that yes you are listening. its only uphill from there. I always tell my instructors in the mornings when we get our babies first that it is okay if we do not get in the water on the first week. The first week is more of a get to know you, I try to find little things that my students love and if it means googling a cartoon or reading a short story just to understand their interest then so be it. They’ll love you by the next week no doubt about it.This isn’t for everyone and for the longest time I really thought i wasn’t gonna find anything that I’m really good at and i was so fortunate to have this patience and have the willing to learn and teach muscle memory things. So there it is, this is my obsession.   

Blog #5 Spring break

We’re all excited for Spring Break. I know I was until my two amazing mothers decided to tell me last minute that I was wasn’t going on the New York Trip with them and my Brother and Sister anymore. My household back home is all about family trips and we planned to go to this New York trip together for months now. New York wasn’t going to just be our typical go out and eat and order everything on the menu or visit a CrossFit box. It was meaningful because my Step mom was going to show us where she proposed to my mother and where the wedding will take place and all the details and to now see that I’m not going just because she “forgot” is a little upsetting.   

Of course, knowing me I don’t let this get to me fully I try to see the good out of it and now I can let my friends know I’ll be staying in College Station and available for the plans they made. When Second semester came around most of the people in my apartment building got a dog as well as I did. Exactly 16 of us all became good friends and found each other hanging out every weekend or just visiting each other’s place to do homework or just relaxing and maybe playing games.

All of us are big Baseball fans, and enjoy going to the games. So, we are going to make a trip to Austin for the Texas A&M vs. University of Texas baseball game. I’m excited not just for the road trip but to just go to Austin. I’ve never been and I hear that there are some fun places to eat at which I’m all down for.

I don’t expect to spend my entire break just being lazy, considering I can’t do that but I’ll be working nights and maybe mornings just to stay on track and put in extra hours for when I can’t because of school. Even though New York would have been amazing to go too. If I’m not with family then friends are the second best thing… Actually, My Dog is the second-best thing then its friends.

Blog #4 The Equalizer

The Equalizer maybe the most underrated movie on planet earth. Scratch that; It is by far the most underrated movie on planet earth. It’s 2 hours and 12 minutes of nothing but cutting edge action, mystery, and more of Denzel Washington being a smooth criminal. If you had any doubts on who the best actor in the history of movie making was before, then this move will give you the certainty that you needed to figure that out. Denzel Washington stars in this Antione Fuqua directed movie.

 A very good job was done in finding, what I would consider, some very good under the radar actors and actresses. Martton Coskas plays Denzel Washington’s enemy. He does a good job of portraying a Russian mafia member. Chloe Grace Moretz plays the innocent prostitute that gets Denzel into all of this mess. Denzel Washington plays an ex-CIA agent who has changed his identity due to retirement. He now lives a normal life. He works at a home improvement store making an honest living. He often spends most of his free time reading books at a diner. At this diner, he meets a young lady who just so happens to be a prostitute. That doesn't stop him from becoming very good friends with her. She ends up getting into some trouble with her pimps and they decide to make an example out of her to the other girls and wind up putting her in the hospital with some serious injuries.

 Denzel catches wind of this and decides to tap into his inner CIA Agent and decides to get revenge. He ends up taking out several of what he assumes to be pimps but ends up killing several members of the Russian Mafia. The mafia sends their best to go and find Denzel and who he is. Denzel sends them on a wild goose chase and ultimately ends up killing the entire Russian Mafia. Denzel Washington adds a new definition of smooth in this movie and I would recommend this movie to anybody