Not making the team

Summer Leap workshop students

I have been absolutely pumped to do a flying trapeze workshop. I wanted to do the one this summer, but didn't really have the money. I watched it sell out in three minutes.

This time around—I found the money. I got a small raise. I justified that if I gave up my barre membership and took free classes, and stopped eating out—I could afford the workshop.

I checked for the workshop posting religiously. And it never came.

Finally, I emailed the owner—figuring they weren't having workshops. She said they were—they were just never posted. And they misread my email and thought I wasn't available.

I almost cried. I had been so excited about it. I was really looking forward to it.

I was on the interested-in-a-trapeze-workshop list. I responded to the survey—that I might be interested. I was waiting to see when the classes were and to see how my schedule was looking. I was waiting for the posting. It never came. They offered the next workshop to the people in the last workshops. And filled the few spaces with people who (like me) didn't get a spot last time either. I was never asked about the workshop this time—just a survey. Which I figured was gauging was whether they had interest for two or three workshops.

And I feel like I didn't make the trapeze team. I wasn't cool enough or good enough. Only the kids who are already awesome made the team. And I want to work on trapeze skills—and get to that level, but it's so hard to get my foot in the door.

How do you get into a workshop if they're only offered to existing workshop students? I understand being loyal to your paying clients, but what about new clients and growing your client base?

I didn't cry. I just felt like it for the rest of the day. I can always buy a 5 or 10-class series and do that. I asked to be on the list of the next workshop, which will probably be in the spring, which seems like an awfully long way off.