 |
| First tournament photo |
May was a lot. I don't think I realized this until I was trying to come up with the title of this chapter, but a lot.
First off was planning for my middle school drama team's first tournament, which went quite well until the day before the school flooded. If it had to happen it was in the best possible way: the teachers were at the school for a professional day and the kids were gone so we were able to stop the flooding without dealing with middle school kids. If the kids had been there we would have had to, obviously, focused on their safety, and if no one would have been there then no one would have known and it would have destroyed the whole school. We were sitting in a meeting and one of the sweet custodians came in and asked if he could talk to our principal because there was something 'important' happening. What happened next was a flash of teachers wading around barefoot attempting to save anything on the floor and the whole library. The gym floor was ruined and we got a lot of new carpet and the students got a lot of days out of school.
The next day was our tournament which went on as scheduled. The kids did PHENOMENALLY. I think there were seventeen entries, most broke to finals, and six placed. We got second in sweepstakes and likely would have gotten first if we'd had the whole group there (conflicts for several). It was a great day and I couldn't have been prouder of them if I tried.
The next weekend was the first of the high school national tournaments. I wasn't going to go, but found airfare at the last minute and flew to Denver and surprised them the day after they got there. No one broke out of the top twenty-four, but it was a phenomenal experience nonetheless.
Finally the year wrapped up with my precious 8th graders promoting to high school and my beloved seniors graduating I handled this a lot better than expected, but still...alllllll the feels!
I also got a new car (mine blew up in April).
With school out for the summer and three months of freedom looming we moved on to...
June (or, I bought a planner and somehow joined a cult)
No comments :
Post a Comment