Mills Spring Concert
A bunch of us attended the Mills Spring Concert last night. The acoustics were terrible because the auditorium is being rebuilt (will be out of commission for up to 18 months!) so the concert was in the cafeteria, which has no acoustic support. But the jazz band and symphone band did great, including Katelyn on saxophone. (pictures here)
Katelyn attended part one of the concert, the orchestra and choir, the night before. While ideally she would go just because she thought it would be fun and interesting, she really went because she has to review 2 concerts each semester, and was using it for one of her two. The other will be my concert with the West Bay Community Band on May 12th.
GATE Art Event
Haley attended an art event about collages on Tuesday night from 6:30-7:30, put on through GATE, the Gifted and Talented Education program at Taylor.
Extra band rehearsals for Haley
In preparation for the upcoming band trip to Disneyland, Haley has extra band rehearsals. Normally she rehearses from 7:30-8:15am on Monday and Wednesday. From now until the 17th she also has rehearsal from 7:30-8:15am on Thursday, as well as 6:45-8pm on Monday. Keeping us all busy, and Haley whining about being tired…
Katelyn at the CMEA Music Festival
On Saturday, April 21, Katelyn participated in the Mills Symphonic Band (and Orchestra too) attending the California Music Education Association’s festival at El Camino High School in South San Francisco. Pictures here.
Taylor Bingo Night
Haley and Kathie and I went to Bingo Night at Taylor to benefit the band. Raffles, silent auction, and spaghetti dinner too!
Since vacation…
The week back was difficult because we were all still tired and had laundry to do. We got through the week, and Haley did the Play-a-thon with the Taylor band, raising a bunch of money towards her trip to Disneyland. Thanks to everyone who donated!
On Saturday (4/14) we got our new sofa for the family room. Picture coming soon…
On Tuesday, the kids and I attended the Mills Music Awards Banquet (really a potluck). It was fun to hear various performances, mostly solos. There are some really talented musicians at Mills!
On Thursday, Val, Adrien, and I attended Open House at Taylor. Haley was busy throughout as a “tour guide” in Mr. Ewing’s class. We had a nice time talking to her teachers. We only spent about 20 minutes doing this, but had to hang around for over an hour waiting for Haley to finish. Oh, and she spaced out about the time for arriving for a band performance, and completely missed it. This prompted me to send an email to Mr. McGaw asking for better communication. We’ll see what happens.
Arizona Vacation Journal!!
Finally finished the vacation journal. Pictures will be coming soon…
At Lake Powell on Vacation
Family vacation! Just left Slot Canyon (great tour guide, Kim) outside of Page, AZ, now waiting for food at Fiesta Mexicana.
Ten Days: Adventures and Life and Stuff
St. Patrick’s Day was busy! First I judged the parade in San Francisco. Then I went to the LLW Kickoff. Then Val and I went to Liza and Jody’s for a fun night of friends and games.
The rest of the week was relatively mundane: my band practice, kids in school and band and after school activities. I had lunch with Freda on Friday, which I always enjoy. We usually go to Hobees in Redwood Shores; they’re starting to know us there!
On Saturday there was a lot of coming and going. Haley had a Feldenkreis lesson at Michelle’s, then went to Glynis & Susan’s. Katelyn went to her friend Jackie’s birthday party, where apparently she had a blast playing Guitar Hero. Then she went to Glynis & Susan’s.
I trekked down to Sunnyvale in the rain for a West Bay Community Band concert to celebrate the grand opening of Faith in Action’s Silicon Valley Rotating Homeless Shelter.
On Sunday Haley had a “Model Seder” in her religious school class. After that we went down to Michelle’s again for another lesson. Apparently we’d gotten our wires crossed because she thought she was coming to us, and we thought we were going there. Thank goodness we were a little early and she was a little late, so we caught her just as she was driving down her street!
On Sunday Val and I went shopping for sofa beds (again!), but didn’t find anything we wanted. We also went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond, and were only marginally successful at getting a few things. We came home and shopped online.
On Monday I took Val out to dinner at Alfiere at the Westin. I got a certificate for dinner from a silent auction benefitting the JCC in Foster City. It was nice to have someone else cook for a change!
Now we’re starting another week with the added stress of getting ready to leave on vacation on Friday. And of course, the kids have a *lot* of homework. Sigh.
Katelyn’s Open House
The Mills HS Open House was last night. As usual, the “entourage” went: me, Val, Kathie, Glynis, Susan, and Adrien. It was amusing introducing the “gang” to the teachers, especially those who remember a slightly smaller group from Back to School Night in September. It was chaotic as, for some reason, they’d scheduled the 8th grade (incoming freshman) orientation and tours for the same night. I guess it was more convenient for the staff to only have one evening they needed to be there, but it sure made it more crowded for everyone!
We were a bit disappointed based on expectations from elementary and middle school. At previous Open House events, you go and see a bunch of the kids’ work posted in the rooms. You get to see projects you didn’t even know they’d completed, and to compare their work to the other kids’. This really wasn’t the case. It seemed to be just a chance to have a short chat with the teachers (really short, since there was a line waiting to talk to each one), and see if the classrooms had changed much, which they hadn’t. At least we got to meet Katelyn’s history teacher, whom we hand’t met before since she just started in that class this semester.
Katelyn is turning in her registration form for next year. She needs to take a language, and has decided on Japanese!
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