Thursday, February 5, 2009

February 5, 2009

Today is Thursday.

Andrew is at the church running sound for the Cajun Clickers computer club.

Today was a half day at school with a teacher meeting from 12:30 to 2:45 PM.

I just finished playing in 16 evening services and a few morning services as well. I played the keyboard as well as planning the worship list, rehearsing and playing most of the altar services. I have only had two nights off in the last 2 1/2 weeks, that was Saturday nights. After you do something like that for such a long period you forget what it was like to do anything else.

I thought school went well today. I jokingly said to my students, "I am so glad the Seniors are not at school and they are on their Senior retreat." We watched two episodes of Destinos videos in my Spanish classes today. The students had to locate 20 verbs from each episode and list them on a sheet of paper. I had to set one student outside the door of my class during Spanish II because he would not give me the time of day and ran his mouth for the first 10 minutes of class. I told him that it was "ridiculous" how he was running his mouth nonstop. I am glad I got him out of the class for a few minutes. It gave me a chance to cool down and manage my class better.

In Guitar class we started learning the Star Spangled Banner. We stayed in the classroom today instead of heading over to the balcony of the church where we normally practice.

Donna, my wife, is still having a rough time dealing with some of the challenged students in her class. There are a few that cannot stay on task no matter how many times she redirects them. We both feel that there are students permitted into her grade without proper adherence to standards of entrance. It is very hard for Donna to manage her class, teach and bring along a few kids that have severe processing problems.

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