Day 311: Ai Carumba!

Talk about a stressful day! Actually, let me rephrase that... Talk about a stressful week beginning with a very stressful day! Not only was today a day of observations by head-honchos from the top of the POLY chain, but today was rehearsal day for the Preschool Christmas Concert! Ai Carumba!

I was nervous as hell for the rehearsal. I'm the MC of the show and wanted things to go smoothly. It would be the first time performing in front of an audience for all the kids, and really, at age five, you just never know what to expect when you get twelve of them up on stage to sing!

The rehearsal actually went not too bad... Some of the kids were really nervous and didn't really sing, but the Parrots came off looking pretty good. There's always some slight competition between the five Preschool classes in the sense that the behaviour and quality of performance reflects the abilities of the teacher, so everyone wants to do a good job. But all was well and now it's just more practice until the real deal on Thursday.

The afternoon observations went well too - whew! Two head-honchos came to watch one class for every teacher and Murphy's Law I got the Bitchy Bastard Head Honcho who's reputation of being unbelievably nasty and picky far precedes him.... Luckily things went well in that class too. All my kids are sweet little angels in G2-1 and they practically teach themselves. I never heard any direct comments afterwards, but apparently the two guys left POLY at the end of the day with nothing but good things to say about all the teachers. Yah for us!

And only five more days left... ;-)