i mentioned on my last post that jord and i are in summer school. we are both wondering what the heck we were thinking when we thought that was a good idea. i'm the type of person that needs a break... and i should have remembered that. but i graduate in december, {hallelujah!} so i guess that was my reasoning. anyway, i needed to take physiology, which is a rough class, so i only wanted to focus on that one. but to qualify for a grant, i needed to take at least 6 credits, and physiology was four. long story short, i added on tennis and yoga. I played tennis in HS, so i knew that would be fun. and i've never tried yoga, so i thought i would give it a shot.
are you freaking kidding me.
i'm an exercise science major.. and i've been studying the body for five years now.. {5 YEARS!}. I know that people are more flexible than others. But holy moly, i am pretty sure that i am the LEAST flexible person in this world. This teacher is kind of crazy/insane too... which doesn't help me get excited about yoga.
Well, i just started the class on monday. It's everyday for an hour and a half, for three weeks. Monday was pretty much the average first day of class: Syllabus, Introductions, and we did a little bit of yoga. not too bad.
yesterday, second day of class: pretty rough. i went home saying "i dont think i like this kind of stuff"
today: absolute hell. {forgive me..}
first of all. i couldn't get out of bed this morning. i was so sore. and this morning in tennis, somebody decided to smack me in the head with their racket. and i mean SMACK. i blacked out. huge goose-egg on my forehead. {glad it missed my eye by an inch}. and its allergy season. which is bad news for me. needless to say, i wasn't in the greatest mood to start out yoga class with.
now, i'm a silent competitor. i get really frustrated when i can't do something, and somebody else can. its just how i am. so i was embarrassed enough not being able to do "the pigeon" {give me a break} but that dang teacher kept coming over to me and telling me to "go farther, straighter back, squat down more". what part of "ouch, that hurts" does she not understand!?!? i'm doing my best here, and i think i can feel each muscle fiber slowly tearing apart from the other, so please, just let me be and stop making me feel like a fool!{and please dont MAKE my legs go a certain way.. im pretty sure since its hard to move them, means that they probably shouldn't be moved!} and if you dont already know this, you are pretty much supposed to be silent through the whole thing cause you are supposed to be listening to your body. {mine was SCREAMING at me!} and it will distract your neighbors. i was honestly trying not to laugh so hard, at myself of course, cause i thought it was funny that i could not keep the pigeon pose for the five minutes we were supposed to. and there was no one to laugh with me, so i was left, looking like a fool.
anyway, i got death looks the rest of the class from mrs. yoga.
if i didnt need that one credit to graduate and keep my grant, i would probably call it quits.
sorry if i offended any yoga-ers. it just aint. my. thing.
i would just rather be sticking pins in my eyes. {pray that i survive the next three weeks.}
