Last night was Riley's first skating lesson. I have to say I was less than impressed with the woman who was running the show, but the teachers who were working with Riley were great...I just wish I knew there names. There was no introduction, no explanation of the program, just some snobbish figure skating coach barking orders to parents who didn't know what they were supposed to do in the first place.
Riley had a great time and didn't want to leave...which led to it's own set of problems, but I think she's going to do fine once she gets the hang of the fact that we're going back every week. This is her first real experience in an organized sport/class/teaching setting since she was too young to remember when we used to go to story time at the library and we never took ECFE and she's not in preschool yet. Overall, I was really proud of how well she listened and followed direction and she wasn't nervous at all, even though she had never met the teachers before...She did great!
The class is broken into two parts. The first half hour is instruction, the second is "open skate" which I only knew because I re-read the registration information before I left for the class. Again, no discussion of this with the parents. Josh brough his skates and got some play time on the ice with his little girl...He's pretty excited about this too:)
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Looks like fun... I wouldn't be thrilled about the lack of communication though. Did you try talking to anyone about it? You would think that they would want to make their customers happier.
Collin's lessons start in Feb in Rogers...we'll see how it goes. Maybe you can give us some tips before then!
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