Drama Club - 4/16/08

The Spring recess starts in a few days and it can't come too soon for me. It was also an incredibly gorgeous day outside. And maybe I shouldn't be admitting this in public, but I'm pretty much phoning it in for the rest of the week. After the debacle on Monday, I have no desire to put in a ton of effort. I just want to get to my vacation. But I'm not completely lazy. I made a deal with the kids. I told them if they ran the scene 3 times really well, then we could go outside. It still took them a fairly long time to get it together. And I was being very lenient because I too was interested in going outside. And yet, they still had problems getting it together. One girl, Britney, has so much attitude. As a result, I put her on a ten minute time out. I also didn't enforce that time out until we went outside. I hit you where it hurts. That's how I roll. The other cool thing was that my Site Coordinator came in and had a look at the scene. He loved it. So that made me feel a lot better about my decision to be lazy and take the kids outside. I also think that it was what both I and the kids needed. Despite all of the craziness, I understand that the kids have been working very hard and they deserved a break. Once we went outside, I was able to relax tremendously. I was able to get a couple of double-dutch jump ropes from the school. It turns out that double-dutch jumping is really hard. I threw the football with a couple of the other kids, threw a Frisbee with some others, and showed off some of my basketball moves with some others. Basically they all learned that I can do anything. Except double-dutch. Either way, I was their hero.