Saturday, May 21, 2011

20 Things you may not know about Andrea Martinez


1- My bachelors degree is in dance with a concentration in performance & choreography.

2- My kids are both dual citizens: Mateo - Mexico/USA and Wahya - Cherokee Nation/USA.

3- I teach 1st generation college-bound students at the Upward Bound program @ UNC.

4- I'm the first woman in my family to ever graduate high school, go to college or get a graduate degree. (My little sister did too.)

5- My first job out of college was at the American Dance Festival at Duke.

6- I am three trainings away from completing my RYT-500 hour certification.

7- Both of my children have four names and they both go by their middle names.

8- I wish I were more like my mother.

9- I taught high school for 8 years.

10- I learned how to shoot both handguns and shotguns when I was 10 years old.

11- I'm certified as a public school principal (my graduate degree is in Educational Leadership.)

12- I was raised in a single-wide trailer.

13- I owned my own dance studio in Miami, FL when I was 25.

14- I am a closet type A-- I loved my label-maker but needed to let it go... and would totally label everything if that was socially acceptable (i.e. floor, pen, door, child, etc.)

15- I'm starting to think that staying home full-time would be awesome (and that's a BIG shift for me.)

16- I'm a reformed smoker. Loved it so much that I had to quit.

17- I have road rage... which is good for you to know if you see me on the street.

18- I love hip-hop and country music with equal fervor.

19- I adore my husband... it's sort of disgusting. (He thinks this should be #1 and #20.)

20- My personal neuroses are probably the greatest influence on how I teach yoga.

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