Young Men's Club - 4/11/08

Friday is always such a long day and today was especially long. It started out promising enough. My good friend Nasir was not in the club today. So I figured that it would be smooth sailing. Unfortunately, a couple of the kids decided that they needed to take up the slack that his absence had created. So I had to "process" the concept about distractions for quite some time. Also, I don't really have a space to work in on Fridays. I have to take the boys to the lobby just outside of the auditorium. Normally, there isn't a problem, but today the club that was in the auditorium was videotaping some bullshit interview. Which meant that I could not have the boys drumming in the lobby. Okay, I can be accommodating. It also turned out that the Dance club was on a field trip so the cafeteria was free. So I took the boys there and started drumming. However, it turned out that THAT was a problem because the people in the auditorium could still hear it. So I had to cut out the drumming entirely. I had them run the speech a few times but I still ended up a good 20 minutes short. I didn't really want them playing a game that involved them running in the cafeteria because it's just not set up for that. There were tables everywhere that had to be moved and there were just too many potential hazards. So I decided to just let the kids sit down and entertain themselves. I just didn't have the energy to try and concoct a whole new game plan because of someone else's nonsense. They really make me work for it on Fridays.