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Of course, I caught all kinds of "hell" from the members in July. That made me feel good and let me know that the members appreciated my classes. I told them I was just taking the month off as I hadn't taken a break from teaching in a long long time. I promised I'd be back in full force on the August schedule.

During my time off, I decided to take a bunch of classes and enjoy myself. I wanted to catch up on some of the other instructors' classes. During this time, a few new instructors were hired and put on the schedule. One was an experienced teacher and the other was brand new. Apparently, they weren't given any kind of orientation at all as they were unfamiliar with the audio equipment in the room and one wasn't exactly sure of the class format. This was very frustrating as not only does the coordinator hire instructors and can't evaluate them, but she also isn't giving them the orientation that they should have. I didn't mind helping out but it's just another responsibility that the coordinator pushed off to someone else.

During July, I did end up teaching a few classes to help out an instructor here and there. Since I wasn't going to the facility on a regular basis, I asked the coordinator if she could please change the cycling sign in sheets to indicate the classes I was teaching. I also asked her if she would update the schedule in the hallway outside the aerobics room so everyone would know that I was in fact teaching a few classes. After all, they did hire her because she could be at the facility for 40 hours a week. Again, she avoided doing anything and I had to drive across town to make the changes myself. Actually, here is the coordinator's response (I actually got one) to my request:

If you could, when you come in to teach, make the changes in the book that would be great.

Unbelievable!!!!!