4 days and counting!

It is the week of Japanese Festival.  I am not short on things to do.

Tomorrow Anja and Markus will be here for the afternoon, evening and night.  They leave as we go to work in the morning. That will be Thursday morning, in which I will work, and then leave for the airport to help pick up the Osuwa Daiko and Hakuho Daiko members as they arrive.  After that is a rehearsal.

Friday, there is a rehearsal at 3pm, and a spiking rehearsal at 6.  Jaci and I will leave early from that and go set up for the welcome party, which starts around 9.  Jaci and I will clean up at midnight.  Then I will drive for an hour to get home. 

I leave around 8:30 in the morning to get to the festival on time.  We load at 10, and it just goes on from there.  I have responsibilities at the Dashi and at the merchandise table as a PR rep.  I also do lots of loading and unloading all day long.  Saturday night is the only night I get to go straight home.  After all the shows Sunday we are having a dinner, and after all the shows Monday is the farewell party.  Then I get up on Tuesday and meet them in the city again for some hostess duty stuff, such as assisted souvenir buying and sight seeing.

Wednesday, I work.

Thursday is the performance practice for Springfield. 

Friday, I leave for Springfield.

And it just goes on.

Still planning to go to DC with my dad and see some of his family.  We were always very close to his cousin's family. I had a dream about them last night.  It was kind of like Wise Children (which I am reading again right now) in the way that periodically in that book there is a moment where everyone from one's past shows up at the same time in full happy carnival mode.  My mom's brother was there, too.  That makes sense, he really does know my dad's cousin.  Then, my grandfather walked in, and my brain knew it was only a dream.  In the dream I burst into tears because it wasn't real.

Not the greatest way to wake up.

And today was CRAZY!

Mrs. McC had her baby, and the sub was doing pretty well, but there was something that hadn't happened before the baby, so neither of us were pros at it:  Doing the rest of the homework the next day.  Someone accidentally took hers home, so I was sent to the office to make a copy.  When I got back, three others needed a copy.  Back to the office.  This time I made a few spares.  Next, we had an emergency drill - bus emergency.  I kept my class pretty quiet, but we were so slow getting off the bus, we probably would have burned up if it had really been on fire.  Instead of my usual evaluations, I also had to teach 3 kids the directions to last night's homework, which they apparently didn't get.  Then, on to my usual.  When it was time for P.E, the class we were supposed to go with wasn't there.  They had a substitute, so I was sent to fetch them.  My student was supposed to go to OT and forgot, so they came looking for him.  Then, in music, one of the boys went to the bathroom and was gone a really long time.  I went to check on him and lo and behold - several boys were trying to convince a GIRL to leave so they could use the bathroom.  Luckily for all, I knew her name, and got her out. Then, the other class was late for lunch, and I had to go and fetch them again.  Yeesh.  Crazy day.

But!

I have to keep my eye on the next thing and not get ahead of myself.  So - off to performance rehearsal I go! 

Hope you are all having a great weekend! 

Here, watch this:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbbTmdX_aNU