Today we went to check out Gymboree. It's a national chain of indoor play/music/art classes and it's expensive but clean and air conditioned--so I thought we'd give it a try.
The teacher was this guy in a rumpled suit --- so enthusiastic and over the top --I found myself throughly entertained by his ridiculousness. He did not stop talking for longer than a few seconds for the whole 45 minutes and he kept trying to corral all these one year olds into the various activities he had set up. We'd be on one thing and he'd be at the other end of the room frantically waving balls and bean bags, "Let's learn side by side kids! This is what side by side means--today we're learning side by side Sofia! C'mon Olivia! Let's learn side by side!!!" The greatest part was he could not remember Henry's name. He'd do each activity and call out the child's name, "This bubble is for LUCIAN!!!!" and then he'd get to Henry and say "This bubble is for.... (and he'd uncomfortably pause and swallow and stare seizure like)..... HENRY!!!!"
Throughout the activity time he kept referring to "our signature activity". I was like damn, I can't wait to see what that is. Let's do this already. So finally out came the "signature activity" which was a long blown up log and all the kids beat on it. Henry liked it but I guess I was confused why that was the signature activity. Why not when he managed to work the name Gymboree into the lyrics of every song he sang or when all the puppets he used were named "Gymbo".
Anyway, it was fun and it was clean but I felt like I was being sold Amway the whole time, so I'm going to pass.
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