life has been moving at break neck speed lately. i should be just about home from a tuesday to sunday band trip to lab city right now but instead i'm sitting on my couch watching an episode of gilmore girls before heading outside for a quick walk on this beautiful day NOT having gone to lab city or walmart or mcdonalds this week. the school board made the decision at about 10am on monday. i then took the next 2 hours to plan "PLAN B" before telling the kids that the event that they had been working their butts off for for 6 months had fallen through. it was the right decision to make - the road was crap - and i wasn't really looking forward to 10+ hours on a school bus over a dirt road... but it was pretty disappointing. however plan b was a success - we did a mini festival at the arts centre on Thursday - i managed to come up with 3 adjudicators with varying degrees of musical abilities. they did well and i think that they enjoyed the chance to play with a different audience then just myself or nick. after the mini festival we took busses down to the christian youth camp for a sleepover. 67 students from 6 grades all mixed up together... 24 hours at a camp... about 45 min sleep for me... more for some students - less for others... overall an excellent time... perhaps i'll write about it more another time.. for now i'm going outside for a walk in the pseudo warmth.