Week #12 My grandma knows about, What Color is Your Parachute?

Tonight I was doing my homework at my grandma's house and she saw my What Color is Your Parachute? book sitting on the kitchen table. She picked it up and sad "Gianna are you reading this book?", I said yes gram I am reading this book for a class. She looked at the book and said, "You know what, I read this book before I opened my own business." I lifted my head from my computer and looked at her and said, "really?". She said, "Yes! I actually used tips from this book to help me with my studio.".

Little bit of background  my grandma, Pat Toniolo, opened up her own dance studio in 1979. When she first opened she had 800 kids and within a year she had to open a second studio because she was so busy.  My grandma is now 81 years old and STILL has her dance studio today, and she has no plans of closing the studio any time soon. She has been very successful in her 38 years of business. If tips from this book can help me be as successful as her I would be so happy.

The picture above is the front of my grandmas dance studio. It is located in Elmwood park IL.

After grandma looked at my book for awhile she started talking to me about it. She said that she remembers reading a lot of helpful tips from this book. I am in utter shock that she knew what this book was.  She even knew what the Flower exercise was! My dad on the other hand had no idea what the book was LOL. My grandma said she actually might still have her copies of the editions she read in the basement. If she does I plan on looking at them to see what has changed and what hasn't. I think that would be really cool. I will update everyone in the coming weeks on if I find the old What Color is Your Parachute? books.