Young Men's Club - 3/25/08

Today was a bit weird. For one thing, I went to an audition today. Without going to the details, I had to get up at 7:30am, wait around for about 3 hours, and hope that I would get seen. The good news was, I did get seen. The bad news was, I had no time to prepare any kind of lesson plan for today. So my mood was weird. I was feeling good about my accomplishment in the field that I want to be pursuing while being required to go into work afterwards. Not exciting. We were in the gym today so I just let them run around. When in doubt, let them play Duck, Duck, Goose! They killed a good 30 minutes with that. Then I attempted a new game. I had them play imaginary baseball in slow motion. Let's just say that game fell flat on its face. Although, to give the boys some credit, it wasn't for a lack of trying. So I gave up on that for after 10 minutes and moved on to the drumming portion. They maintained the beats that they had made up from last week. Which is funny because I still don't remember them. I also think I may have found a niche for Nasir. He just doesn't seem to be into the drumming. But he does like to dance and he loves attention. So I think I'm going to make him a sort of Drum Major. I gave him the task of the opening count to start the beat and the signal to end the piece. He actually seemed to take to it pretty well. I may be on to something here. Unfortunately, the club did not end well. The sister of one of the students came a little early to sign him out. I had to take a little time to find the sign out sheet and then let her sign it. The boys decided to take the fact that my back was turned for 45 seconds as permission to act like complete jackasses. A, "fight," broke out between two of the kids. No punches or anything, just one kid who was very upset chasing another kid. So I had to bring the hammer down on that. In the end, there was a 10 minute time out issued which will be enforced at the beginning of Thursday's club. When will they learn?