Good news:
Yay! 7 students tonight. So exciting!
I love meeting all these new ladies!

Bad news:
So... if I'm a good bellydancer, and I'm a professional teacher, I should be a natural bellydance teacher, right?
Nope.
Not that simple.
I'm good at differentiating my second grade classroom. I deal with mixed abilities everyday. Some kids are on grade-level, some can't read, and some can read 5th grade books. I know how to target each one at their abilities, and yet still teach the second grade curriculum.
That apparently doesn't translate well into a mixed levels bellydance class.
I now have to reevaluate my idea of differentiated instruction for bellydance, or decide to teach a level one class.
The second bummer is that I didn't finish my combo again tonight. I get too wrapped up in everyone feeling confident in their movement, leaving students behind, boring students, looking at posture, breathing, AAAAH! I just don't move on....My combos are so much fun!...but so far have only been seen by my cat.
Things won't be perfect.
Things can't be perfect.

Insecurities are lame.