My 2 Seconds of (Zumba) Fame!

About two months ago I was contacted by a reporter from a local Southern Oregon health magazine called Healthy Living (it's free and produced by the local newspaper). They were interested in doing a story on Zumba, as it's a unique form of exercise and an up and coming trend in the fitness world. I was excited and of course agreed to let them cover my class.

I did my best when they showed up to have the presence of mind to smile in addition to remembering my choreography. Of course that night I had one of my smallest classes in a long time (only 6 people - I normally average at least 10 if not 15, which is one of the higher attended classes for our YMCA), but we still had a good time. The reporter only asked me a few questions, which left me to wonder what he was going to write about...

A lot of time passed and I wasn't sure if they were going to cover the story after all, but one day my boss at the YMCA came up to me and said, "You're famous!" and handed me a copy of the article. I had to laugh as I told Matt that my fame had spread to the far corners of our little town...or at least as far as the grocer at Albertsons who must wonder why I always come in sweaty and recognized me from the article. Now that's fame.

If you want to read the full article you can do so here.

Of course this story came out right as I decided to cut back my Zumba classes to just one night a week instead of two, as it was just taking away too much time from my family. I love doing it - it reminds me of stake dances (my friends and I went to every stake dance within 3 or 4 stakes and thought we were surely the coolest thing to hit the dance floor). But, to every thing a time and season right?

So, in the meantime every Tuesday night at 5:30 p.m. - Zumba on baby!