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A day in the life

I haven’t done a “day in the life” post since last semester!

This is a typical Tuesday for me.

5:00 a.m. – Wake up, eat breakfast, drink coffee. Breakfast lately has been oatmeal and peanut butter.oats
5:30 a.m. – Swim or run or lift weights.swimming
6:30 a.m. – Drive home from the gym, shower, have a snack, read my Bible.

7:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Do homework and pack a lunch. I usually pack a tuna sandwich, veggies, and anything else that looks good in the fridge. I typically grab a coffee at school because I’ve become friends with the woman who works at the coffee stand. She bakes me cookies sometimes.

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11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Attend COMM 270, which is a multimedia design class. We are working on making a website and it’s really hard because I struggle with technology.007
12:15 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. Eat my lunch and drive to a local park about 10 minutes from campus to meet up with my mom and walk around the park’s pond.IMG_4946
12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Walk and talk with my mom. I love this part of my day! Afterwards, I drive back to campus.

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Work on homework on campus. Eat a snack. I usually eat a granola bar or mixed nuts.luna

3:00 p.m. – 5:40 p.m. Attend CAS 204, which is a communications research prep course. This class is pretty tough–I’m learning about different research methods for my senior research project next semester. The professor gives us a 10 minute break during the class to break it up a bit. I usually pee because I drank too much coffee all day.

5:40 p.m. – 6:10 p.m. Drive home. I’m so glad it’s daylight savings time now because I don’t like driving in the dark.

6:10 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Heat up whatever my mom made for dinner and feast upon it. Sometimes if she’s busy or not home I “fend for myself” by heating up leftovers, cooking random things that I find in the refrigerator, or by making a sandwich.005

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Catch up with my family to see how everyone’s day was, do homework if I have the energy, read blogs, and cuddle with Lola.lola
9:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Hit the hay. Yes, I go to bed extremely early. I love sleep 😀

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Getting certified

Thanks for all of the nice comments and congratulations on my last post. A little info on the Spinning course:

  • I received a manual to read before the orientation
  • I had to attend a 9-hour orientation
  • Lastly, I had to take a 50 question test

I left off in my last post saying that I had a lot of doubts before I took the course.

I had no idea my parents were getting me this as a Christmas gift so I was a little taken aback (but def. not ungrateful!) on Christmas. They said that me becoming an instructor is kind of like a Christmas gift that keeps on giving because I can gain employment from it.

They also said I didn’t have to take the course if I didn’t want to–they just didn’t know what to get me for Christmas and went out on a limb with this idea. So I thought why not? If I get certified and hate it, at least I tried and had a cool experience!

What the orientation was like

The orientation was at a local gym about 35 minutes from my home. It began at 10am and ended at 7pm. Needless to say, it was a long day. Twelve people were at the orientation and it was all in one room. We each had a Spinning bike and a chair next to it.

Here’s a breakdown of the day:

  • 10am-12:30pm: Learned about the history of Spinning and how to properly set up a bike.
  • 12:30-2:00pm: Performed a “form ride” where the teacher checked everyone’s form and we all practiced basic spinning skills like jumping and standing climbs.
  • 2:00-2:30pm: LUNCH! (I packed a pb&j, an apple, carrots, a Luna bar, hard boiled eggs, a tuna sandwich, popcorn, and trail mix—> We were told that we would need to eat a lot because we were going to be riding the bikes a lot.)
  • 2:30-6:00pm: Learned about endurance, strength, recovery, and interval training as well as heart rate training and how to put together a class and choose music.
  • 6:00-7:00pm: Rode the bike again for a tough class.

(^ I packed a lot of stuff for the day…!)

*So overall, I had three hours of riding, five and a half hours of learning, and thirty minutes for lunch to make it a nine hour day.*

My thoughts on the orientation

  1. I wish it was broken up into two days of four and a half hours instead of one nine-hour day.
  2. It made my butt really sore :p.
  3. I really enjoyed the instructor–she was very knowledgeable and nice.
  4. I was whooped by the end of the day. My body was really tired from spinning and my mind was really full. It took me all day Sunday to process everything in my head!

Tomorrow or sometime soon I’ll do another post on the 50 question test and what I plan to do with my certification!