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Mar. 3rd, 2006 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raystrobel47I'm back from the 1st Wilkinsburg Black History Month Extravaganza. I directed the "Wilkinsburg Chamber Singers," a spiffy way of saying there were only 7 girls who volunteered. I must say that despite 3 or 4 being sick, it sounded nice. They definitely saved their best performance for tonight, but their projection still needs work.
The rest of the program was nice. Many kids read poems, there was the World Drumming Ensemble joined by two wonderful African drummers from I-forget-where, but they were great, a dance troupe taught by one of the associate teachers (in-house sub) complete with traditional garb, and they were great too. Unfortunately, it wasn't that well attended, but it was the first one. Maybe next year's will be better. I'm glad I stayed. A lot of kids put in a lot of effort, and many of them I have in one class or another.
This was a change in attitude from earlier today/this week. Not that I would've paid money to get out of doing this, but with the pressure in class and the frustrations I have every day, I had no happy enthusiasm. I wanted them to do a good job, to be sure, but it just felt fruitless. Again, they did well tonight, and I also had some pleasant comraderie with of the kids. I can't tell you how much a little bit of that means to me. It's like I'm talking with different kids with some of them. Nice to see now, frustrating again once they turn back into stand-offish don't-wanna-do-nuthins come Monday.
Many, many thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
warrewyk for staying at the house so fiannaharpar could go do scribble at ariannawyn's tonight. And many thanks to my dear sweet wife for leaving some smiley fries for me to supplement my dinner tonight. :-D You are the best, sweetie.
On a completely different note, I just recently got attention-attacked by our cat Tiger, something which never happens. He jumped in my lap to get scritches. Only Henry jumps in laps, but Tiger seems desperate. Of course, it's his own damn fault as he never visits us in bed, whereas Henry gets all the pettins cuz he's there. Hmph. Crazy cat.
I wish everyone a good weekend. Pooky's getting her hair cut tomorrow, finally, and I'm sure she'll be cuter than ever.
Ok folks, this is about an awkward a sign-off as you'll get, so why try harder?
The rest of the program was nice. Many kids read poems, there was the World Drumming Ensemble joined by two wonderful African drummers from I-forget-where, but they were great, a dance troupe taught by one of the associate teachers (in-house sub) complete with traditional garb, and they were great too. Unfortunately, it wasn't that well attended, but it was the first one. Maybe next year's will be better. I'm glad I stayed. A lot of kids put in a lot of effort, and many of them I have in one class or another.
This was a change in attitude from earlier today/this week. Not that I would've paid money to get out of doing this, but with the pressure in class and the frustrations I have every day, I had no happy enthusiasm. I wanted them to do a good job, to be sure, but it just felt fruitless. Again, they did well tonight, and I also had some pleasant comraderie with of the kids. I can't tell you how much a little bit of that means to me. It's like I'm talking with different kids with some of them. Nice to see now, frustrating again once they turn back into stand-offish don't-wanna-do-nuthins come Monday.
Many, many thanks to
warrewyk for staying at the house so fiannaharpar could go do scribble at ariannawyn's tonight. And many thanks to my dear sweet wife for leaving some smiley fries for me to supplement my dinner tonight. :-D You are the best, sweetie.On a completely different note, I just recently got attention-attacked by our cat Tiger, something which never happens. He jumped in my lap to get scritches. Only Henry jumps in laps, but Tiger seems desperate. Of course, it's his own damn fault as he never visits us in bed, whereas Henry gets all the pettins cuz he's there. Hmph. Crazy cat.
I wish everyone a good weekend. Pooky's getting her hair cut tomorrow, finally, and I'm sure she'll be cuter than ever.
Ok folks, this is about an awkward a sign-off as you'll get, so why try harder?
