disaster class...

So, today was my first day teaching aerobics, and I only recounting this story so that hopefully it goes better in days to come...

Last week I bought a cassette adapter to hook up my ipod to the rooms speakers, it is a really old sound system and this is the only way teachers in the past have gotten their music to play. So I was ready this morning with my workout and my music, but I grabbed a workout cd just in case I couldn't get it working. So I get to class take roll, find out only half the students are there again and tell them about the workout we were going to do. I go to turn on the music and find out I don't actually know the right buttons to push for the cassette so I pop in the cd. I turn it on and it is way too loud, and the volume for the cd player doesn't work. I get everyone to do their crunches and curls while I figure out that the cd volume is through the cassette, so I finally got it right. Well, by this time I was already a little embarrassed that I didn't know what I was doing, but it's fine. We start working out and right before our last chunk of workout and strength stuff the power goes out. It is completely black and silent. great... well, I had to let class out early and we didn't get to finish anything I had planned... I really just hope things go smoother next time. Or else this will be a very long end of the semester...

I hope everyone else is having a great day!