A Small Gesture That Made My Holiday

Today in Utah—July 24—is a state holiday, Pioneer Day to be exact. It's a celebration of the pioneers settling in the Salt Lake Valley back in 1847. Essentially the whole month of July is themed around parades, fireworks, BBQs, and summer festivals. So if you missed something on July 4, you can make sure to catch it 20 days later.

I don't celebrate this holiday in any particular way. Maybe because I've only enjoyed the holiday a few years I've lived in Utah during the summer...and don't really have any family traditions or nostalgia associated with it.

The best thing about the holiday this year for me actually happened YESTERDAY. In my Zumba class. With some of my favorite students.

You see, due to this holiday, a lot of businesses are closed or have limited hours. Which means the Central Utah Clinic, where I teach a class on Wednesday evenings, is closed, and as a result my class is cancelled.

Usually this sort of thing doesn't phase me at all. It's common, and all of there other locations I teach also cancelled classes today.

But my CUC students would not have it! I have 3 absolute regulars in that small class. They are the first ones there and the last ones to leave. They are there every week and are the ones telling all of their coworkers to join us at this free class offered in their workplace. They asked if I could come another night but my schedule doesn't allow it.

So they all decided to come to my class last night at the Provo Rec. They tell me every week how much they love the class and how much it has helped them. They didn't want to get out of their routine so they decided to stalk my other classes (haha their words). It was so fun to have them come to a different class in a different facility, just because they like it so much. And yea, it made my (holi)day.