For now we will skip the soccer drama, and go to dancing. Our school will be having our "We Lead" day on February 8th. This is a school wide thing with people coming in to see all the great and wonderful things going on at our school. We have a school wide assembly in which we have our students show the diversity in our school by carrying the flags from their country and saying a few words in their home language. It is kinda like the Olympics type Parade of Nations, but on a smaller scale. Well, the last two years, students from my class have lead a dance for the entire student body to join in. After doing the same song for two years, I, in my crazy head, thought that this year we could learn a new dance. UMMMM.......YEAH. So, I have 3 weeks to not only teach my students this dance, but to get the rest of the school somewhat familiar with the dance as well. I was a bit over ambitious with my dance of choice, but after a lot of tweaking, swollen knees, and help from a fellow teacher, I think we have this dance down, well, I thought we did, so I decided to record it so that I could get my students on board. After reviewing the dance SEVERAL times over the weekend, lots of crying from both laughter and well, the sight of me dancing and the MILLIONS of mistakes I made, I am going to reshoot said dance and THEN hopefully we will be ready to send out to the world, or at least the school.
Soccer, oh my soccer! 😒
Elijah loves playing soccer. He played both recreational (rec) soccer and academy soccer this past fall. Both teams did really well. His rec team, The Force, went undefeated and got to play in The Tournament of Champions in Dallas. They won one game and lost two games at the Tournament. I personally feel that they could have easily won one of the games that they lost had some changes been made, but, they didn't. The academy team came in 4th place out of 11 teams, and for a group of boys that just got put together, I think that's pretty good. So, like I said, Elijah loves playing soccer. I love that it gets him moving, gives him an opportunity to socialize with other kids, and that he is learning how to work as a team. Now, he has been playing soccer with a few of the boys on his rec team for four years now, and the others for a year. They are the BEST thing that has ever happened to this boy. They accept him exactly the way he is with all his quirks, and craziness, they make him feel like he belongs. I would even go as far as to say that one of the boys would be his "best friend." They get along really well, and it's funny, but sweet to see how his friend interacts with Elijah. Elijah still has trouble with personal space, he just doesn't get it most of the time. Yet, his friend can tell him to give him his space, but then they both laugh, and are right back glued to each others side. So, for me, soccer is more than just playing a game. Well, our rec coach is also our team manager for academy. We, the parents of the rec team, found out that our coach was planning on moving her son to play up in age, but did not let us know. What that means is that our team, or remaining players, would be split up because of low number of boys returning. A few of our boys play baseball in the spring and one of them moved to Italy, but like I said before, our boys play well together, and get along well with each other. Needless to say, we were not happy with what we found out and I, personally felt blind sided by this. Elijah doesn't do well with change, he's ready to quit every time he gets a new coach so you can imagine a WHOLE new team! Yeah, no bueño. He cried the first three weeks of academy soccer because of a new team, new coach, new drills. It seriously took a month for him to FINALLY decide he liked it. After a lot of talking and us parents do what we could to keep our boys together, we think we got that straightened out. Drama over right....NO!!! It went right onto our academy team. Four of the boys that play on the rec team play on the academy team (one is obviously her son), and placement of boys on teams seemed to reflect the bad feelings of some people. Instead of there being one academy team there was two, and like I said, the teams seemed to favor some people over others. Again, parents voiced opinions and two teams became one, and then one team became what is even going on! I still don't know if there is going to be a team, and if we are going to play. I feel like all I have received have been half truths from the person that is supposed to be our go to person for answers. I did ask Elijah if he wanted to play and he said no because his friend wasn't playing. I guess time will tell as far as that team goes!
Lastly, the movie, because ALL or MOST of this went down in the course of 4 days, my friend Razo (yes I call her by her last name because we have the same First AND Middle name) and I went to watch Pitch Perfect 3! It was great and well needed......next up The Greatest Showman!
That is all for now, I hope that this week isn't as crazy as the last, but since my parents 50th Anniversary is on the 27th, and I still have a ton of things to get ready for that, I don't think it is going to be a slow week at all!!
