Well, I know xanga is officially dead, but I feel bad for it. Poor little washed-up xanga. Plus, I wrote this nice email that sounded like an update. So...
John and I finally have some time off these next few weeks. We were busy taking classes last week. I took a class on elementary musical theatre with Michelle and our prof was weird and we weren't sure we got much out of it. John took Percussion for the Non-Percussionist which he found very useful. This was after we each took another class previously this summer- his was "Aspiring Leadership in Music Educators," and I took a classroom management course paid for by the school district. Eventually, we will get reimbursed from the school district for these other music graduate classes we took. But it is nice to be done with them for awhile.
We have also been through 2 weeks of the show, South Pacific at EPAC. The show is consistently good every night and most of them have been sold out. We are probably totally sold out now, especially since most of our reviews have been good. We look forward to having our whole fan club (John's side too) there on Friday night!! We are gearing up to do a couple more shows before the year is out. They have changed the October show to Little Shop of Horrors which John just helped Garden Spot do, so he will probably be playing guitar for that (and I may be on piano for it; JP is directing). We are also going to be directing/playing for Godspell in November. We will have a couple of months until those rehearsals start. The show is already selling fast, and I am definitely looking forward to being a part of it. John is not so sure though, I think he is feeling burnt out.
John had applied for a chorus/guitar/musical director position in Gettysburg Area School District. He was asked to interview last week but he could not skip out of his grad class to go, and now they have offered it to someone else without even seeing him. He is very upset about it, and I feel bad about it. I told him he just has to keep looking, as he really wants to get out of Lancaster after 5 years there. It would have been quite a commute; I know that it wasn't meant to be, or maybe he'll still have a chance, but its hard to keep waiting for better jobs to come along. We have both been applying all summer, but we are limited in area because of our house. The School District of Lancaster is not looking good this coming year: our superintendent and business manager both resigned; my assistant principal took another job; my school, john's school, some other elementary schools, all the middle schools, and the high school did not make our test score goals this year; our teacher's union voted down the contract proposal by the school district so as of July 1st we did not have a contract-- it would be a great time to get out but I don't know if it will happen.
We already have some plans for next summer. John's best friend and best man Charlie, who lives in California, is getting married next summer out there and we will be flying there and spending about a week with them before their wedding. Then from there we will be flying to visit John's aunt and uncle in Hawaii for a couple of weeks. We are hoping to have a free place to stay in both states, so we will just have to pay for airfare. We are very excited to take some time off and not make any committments. I just know it is going to be hard to wait a whole year to go!
We had a little get together on Sunday evening for our parents and some of our closest friends to cut the cake topper from our wedding cake and to celebrate our anniversary. I made a bunch of food and managed to clean most of the house in the couple of busy days prior to the party. But since the show has gone up most of the weekends are free, and I have been going to yard sales every Saturday morning. I am working on finding things for the guest room on the 3rd floor. I also just played piano and organ duets with Pat our organist at church which was something fun and out of the ordinary-- don't get to play much real music on piano and more (or trumpet for that matter!) Sometime before the summer ends, I would like to have Mom and Dad, Mel, Granny, and you over for dinner and games or something. Now, I am going to finally work on my wedding scrapbooks.
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