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Various church things
Jun. 17th, 2013 08:28 am1. So after all the drama (mostly inside my own head, no one else cared) of last week, choir director moved back the date choir was performing at church. Without telling me! Fortunately, she mentioned it in her weekly choir email on Saturday night, which was enough time that I was able to contact the program people and have them change the program.
2. This was apparently directly related to no pianists, including me, being at choir practice last week. My in-laws were in town! No one told me there would be no pianist if I didn't come to practice! (I suspect what happened is that regular choir pianist forgot to mention he was going to be absent.)
3. For the last couple of weeks I've been substitute-teaching the 8-year-olds at church. It's... kind of fun, actually! The second week I was more confident than the first, and I think it made a huge difference both in the quality of my teaching and the way I felt about it, although I spent somewhat less time preparing the second week.
( In which I go on for a while, as I do. )
4. Yesterday I was subbing in the nursery. (Ah, June, and everyone going on vacation. Someday I will be able to attend regular church, but not until July, probably.) It's the first time I've been in the nursery for months. And it turns out that the composition has totally changed since my job (calling) was there: looking after a bunch of more-or-less civilized 2.5-3.5-age girls is way, way easier than my previous task of looking after a bunch of 1.5-2.5-age savages plus two uncivilized 3.5-year-old girls and one civilized 3.5-year-old girl. (I should not say that they were uncivilized, exactly, but one was always doing things like tripping or pushing the younger toddlers and then looking all innocent, and it was really irritating. The other would just brawl with the other girl because they were both seriously high-energy, and I would spend a great deal of time trying to keep the savages' Brownian motion from taking them into the path of the brawls.) I was actually not wiped out after two hours with the kids, which is a first.
Also, they're all at the same level, except for the one 2-year-old boy who is happy as long as he's clutching his little panda bear (so cute!), so I actually found it way easier pedagogically than the 8-year-olds :) (We worked on not grabbing and asking other people nicely for things instead...)
2. This was apparently directly related to no pianists, including me, being at choir practice last week. My in-laws were in town! No one told me there would be no pianist if I didn't come to practice! (I suspect what happened is that regular choir pianist forgot to mention he was going to be absent.)
3. For the last couple of weeks I've been substitute-teaching the 8-year-olds at church. It's... kind of fun, actually! The second week I was more confident than the first, and I think it made a huge difference both in the quality of my teaching and the way I felt about it, although I spent somewhat less time preparing the second week.
( In which I go on for a while, as I do. )
4. Yesterday I was subbing in the nursery. (Ah, June, and everyone going on vacation. Someday I will be able to attend regular church, but not until July, probably.) It's the first time I've been in the nursery for months. And it turns out that the composition has totally changed since my job (calling) was there: looking after a bunch of more-or-less civilized 2.5-3.5-age girls is way, way easier than my previous task of looking after a bunch of 1.5-2.5-age savages plus two uncivilized 3.5-year-old girls and one civilized 3.5-year-old girl. (I should not say that they were uncivilized, exactly, but one was always doing things like tripping or pushing the younger toddlers and then looking all innocent, and it was really irritating. The other would just brawl with the other girl because they were both seriously high-energy, and I would spend a great deal of time trying to keep the savages' Brownian motion from taking them into the path of the brawls.) I was actually not wiped out after two hours with the kids, which is a first.
Also, they're all at the same level, except for the one 2-year-old boy who is happy as long as he's clutching his little panda bear (so cute!), so I actually found it way easier pedagogically than the 8-year-olds :) (We worked on not grabbing and asking other people nicely for things instead...)
