Young Men's Club - 5/6/08

I was informed today that the Young Men's Club will be performing at the annual Father/Son brunch in June. I was also told that there would be a visitor during the club. The head grant-writer or something. Couple that with the Spring show and the fact that I'm going to be leaving very soon and I ended up with a long list of things to do and a very short time to do them. The good news was that for the Father/Son show, they will do the same thing that they did for the Black History Show. The bad news was that I had to find out if they remembered it. Well it turned out, for the most part, that they did. The drumming piece was a little rusty to start, but they ended up back on track. The same was true with the, "I have a dream," speech. One major problem that I had with the drumming section was that my buckets have yet to be replaced, so I was short about 3 or 4 buckets. Which meant that everyone couldn't drum at the same time. However, it also meant that if anyone misbehaved, then I could replace them with someone who didn't have a bucket. It was quite the power trip. For the most part, the boys did fairly well today. I did, however, have to put them in a time out and I had to repeated give this speech: "We can do this the easy way or the hard way. The easy way is when you listen to me, we finish what we need to get done, and we have plenty of time left over to play games. The hard way is when you continue to interrupt me and continue to be distracted and I have to take time to address all of these issues. Either way, we're going to get it done." Lastly, the visit by the grant-writer was a non-factor. I didn't even notice when he/she came in. I ended the day with a very quick race. I had the best behaved child pick who they wanted to race against and then so on down the line.