Young Men's Club - 2/12/08

I will start the good news about today. Two of the fatal foursome were not in the club today. Neither Jourdan nor Fernando were there. That made the day go a little bit smoother. Secondly, we combined the Young Men's Club and the Dance/Step Club so that we could do a run through of the Black History Show. This meant that I didn't have to spend the entire hour and a half or so entertaining and controlling the kids by myself. And on top of that, the kids actually did a very good job on their presentations. They were a little quiet with the speeches but in general it was very good. And the drumming portion of the presentation was, dare I say, excellent. Now here's the bad news. Which actually isn't really bad news at all. It just means more work for me. What happened was the kids did such a good job that the drumming part actually went very quickly. In fact, it went too quickly. I had no idea that it would go that quickly. It took so long for them to learn the piece that I just figured it would take that long for them to play it. But once it was all together, it just flew. So, after the run through I had to take the kids up to the gym, and then create and teach them a new beat to add to the drumming program. Now I've got about two weeks to pull it all together. Which shouldn't be too difficult. I mean, it's definitely going to take some time for them to pick up the new beat. And, I really want to give them something fairly challenging. Actually, I think that this is a good thing. This may provide that little bit of spark that I need to get through to the Winter Recess. I think I may have gone into vacation mode a tad bit too early.