Keep calm and challenge accepted

I have just finished two dancing lessons, the first one with the students of the 5^th grade and the second one with the ones of the 2^nd grade. It was crazy!

Yesterday night, when I was going home with Zura, he told me that he would go to Rīga today and that I wouldn't have dancing lessons. We called the dancing teacher just to confirm it and she didn't pick up the phone. Finally, we managed to contact her at half past ten, before going to sleep. She said that she was injured and would not be able to do the lesson so that I had to go there and do it myself. PANIC! It was 22:30 and the following day at 8 o'clock in the morning I would have two lessons that I wouldn't have been able to prepare. At the first moment I was really scared but I realized that this wouldn't help me and I was so tired that I wasn't able to prepare anything, so I decided to go to sleep.

But the reality came back again when I arrived in the Youth Center and faced the 5^th grade students. While walking to Youth Center I had thought of some exercises but when I arrived here all of them disappeared! Luckily there was the pianist, a very kind woman who helped me a lot, who doesn't speak English at all (of course, let's make it easier!).

We started very punctual, doing some warm-up. My intention was to do it very slow and long, including all the parts of the body, because I can't teach Latvian nor Georgian dances and we couldn't do any Catalan dance because I didn't have the material but we had to fill the lesson with something. The problem was that after four exercises I didn't know what else I could do. So the first idea that crossed my mind was to practice the dance they had already started with the Latvian teacher. But this was not possible because the pianist didn't have the score! Luckily she remembered some notes and we practiced the basic steps of the dance during the rest of the lesson.

Then the students of the 2^nd grade arrived with their never-ending energy. After calming them down as much as we could (it's quite impossible for them to be quiet) I was able to do a better warm-up than with the first lesson, although I also needed the help of the pianist to finish the lesson.

And now, after this small disaster I did in the first two lessons, I am going to think of what I can do with the students of the 4^th grade who will arrive in one hour.

Keep calm and challenge accepted!