crazy days

i have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off the past few days. so crazy. my band had this big performance coming up monday and tuesday, which i was totally freaking out about and worring about all weekend. first of all, the lady who set it up wanted a small ensemble (they had a string quartet at last year's conference) and not too big of a sound. but whatever, my band is great how they are and they know how to play as background music, and they ALL wanted to go, so fine, i decided to take them all and the lady would just have to deal. also, we were going to play for an hour. that is a long time for middle schoolers to sit and behave, let alone play music. and then i was worried if we even had enough music to fill the time. so many stupid worries.
well, it all turned out fine, as usual. when we got there monday, there were 6 chairs set up. hahaha. but i found the hotel guy and got more chairs. the lady saw us setting up more people and was a little freaked out, but i assured her that it would be great. and the kids complained some, but they survived just fine, and we had exactly the right amount of music. we only had to repeat one song over again. and then today for the lunchtime thing, they moved where we were playing, and again only had 6 chairs set up. i really think the lady had wishful thinking that i wouldn't bring all of them again. uh, no. so we got it all set up again, and it was great. but the lady had at first told me that the kids would get food for playing, but now since there were so many, she couldn't do that, so the kids were bummed about that, but i promised them a party later on, and that always solves everything. :)
but seriously, my legs are in some PAIN! standing for an hour straight , with little walking or movement, is very hard on your legs. i usually stand during classes, but i'm always walking around to the kids and moving. but at this thing i was conducting them and not really moving around, and i am pooped!
last weekend was crazy too, definitely not enough time in the days! but, on sunday night, a christian rock band called FFH (Far From Home) was here and played on our base, and i went to that. it was very cool. some of my kids played in the worship band before the show, and it was really good. and FFH was awesome, i really liked them. i'd never heard of them before, but they are great.
luke and i are so excited to be coming home to visit. we've started the countdown, it's like 53 days or something. yay!!
there are so many things we want to do over the summer, i hope we can fit it all in. :)

hi again!

yeah, yeah... i know it's been a while. its finally our spring break here!!! woooohoooooo!!! luke and i are going to hang around korea and check out some of the palaces and korean folk villages and stuff litke that. and, luke found some surf last week that we are going to check out on sunday and during the week also. and we really need to clean the house.... not so much the front room and kitchen, they are clean. but the bedroom..... clothes everywhere. i've just been too lazy lately, but now that i have a week off, i can finally get to it.
last week i finally got the piano moved out of my room. yay! you might be thinking... why??? its a band room! well, the piano was a grand piano (not small) and took up so much room in a space that isn't large enough in the first place to hold all the kids i have. so now its gone, and i spent yesterday trying to reorganize and rearrange the things in there. its hard! good thing i have this week off, because it is not finished yet.
so i have some funny pics.... the first one is some of the boys in my band class. we had a band performance during nutrition break, so 3 opf them have theiur band shirts on, but this is after we played our music. they were acting silly that day and rolled up their pants and were being realy nerdy like steve urkel. it was actually april 1st. and i told them that if they stayed like that for the rest of the day then i would give them 50 extra credit points. so then i took this picture and told them "april fools" and they were going crazy. so i gave them 10 points anyways. :)

L-R: Ricky, Anthony, Joe, Ivan, and Solomon
Anthony was actually trying to look more like Napoleon Dynamite and he fluffed up his hair and had that dorky look on his face. We were all laughing so hard! :)
and then last saturday the base did a "walk for fallen heros" and everyone who walked wore the name of a soldier that has died in the war in iraq. and we also took donations and raised money for a scholarship fund for the children of the people who died, so it was all for a very good cause. and they had the 8th army band play, and lots of booths set up, and it was a very fun day, so the walk was 7K all over the base, and i walked with some of my students. here they are:

L-R: Priscilla, Tracy, Agnes, Ehjin, and me!
It was very fun and we took this picture after we were done walking. I had other students participate too, but they walked in other groups, so they aren't in this picture. It was a huge event and there were something like 1500-2000 people there or something. it was awesome!
So there's the update.... hopefully after this nice spring break i have some more fun stuff to write about.
okay, i love you, byebye