A job well done....

Being that this is my first post, I have not yet figured this whole thing out. I apologize for the lack of pictures. I play to remedy that soon, I hope.

As I am typing, I can see the light falling on the snow across the parking lot from my apartment building. I am actually glad that the snow came last night instead of Thursday night. I would usually be ecstatic with possibility of not going to work due to hazardous road conditions. However, yesterday would have been a terrible day for that.

Each year at this time, we have a Renaissance Festival for the students I teach and their parents. It’s a chance to connect all of their subjects and let the parents see the “fruit of their labors.” I am the person in charge of the event, and I spend weeks preparing for this one day. It’s very much like preparing for a wedding. Everyone has special clothes, and there’s a big production with a reception.

We spend hours decorating the school gym on Thursday night and Friday morning. Finally, the parents arrive, and the feast begins. They enter the gym by a drawbridge that one of the students and his family built. A few girls created a moat with alligators out of paper to but around the base of the drawbridge. Another student even dressed as a hunchback and begged for “alms” at the entrance. However, I fear that the only one to take pity of him and give his some money was his own mother!

In addition to some special music, the students performed a scene from Romeo and Juliet and a short version of The Sleeping Beauty both of which I directed. I must say that I couldn’t have been happier with the students or with the event as a whole. Everyone seemed pleased and ready with compliments.

However, I am extremely happy that this is now behind me for another year. It’s quite time consuming and exhausting. And now, I can look forward to the promise of more snow tomorrow night. I know that it’s foolish to get my hopes up about this, being that I have so often been disappointed in the past. And yet still I will creep out of bed Monday morning to peek out the window eagerly anticipating the sight of a world covered in snow and icy streets!