I Survived!

Yes, I am alive and well after getting the nerve up to sub at the high school. After finally figuring out where I was supposed to sign in I headed for the band hall. I felt on top of the world actually. I thought I'd be terrified and have a stomach full of knots at the thought of being back in my old high school and facing a bunch of high school brats. But it was kind of like "Ha! Now I am the teacher suffer my wrath!" Even though I knew that I probably would not be doing much of anything all day long. So I got to the band all and the head band director asked if I had any music experience. I let him know I'd gone through the band program there and had played in college. He seemed thrilled and then I thought I'd really goofed telling him that. I quickly added that I'd had no experience what so ever actually directing a band. So for three class periods I read Mirror, Mirror and listened to the band, which was better than I was dreading it would be. Then the director tells me that the director I'm there for usually goes over to the intermediate school to work with the beginning band students in fifth and sixth grade. I'm thinking, "Oh great, that'll be fun." So I got to spend the rest of the day with children who could not play their instruments, helping the percussion kids count when they were their and towering over the misbehaved kids to intimidate them, while the band director's wife, who was also subbing, conducted the 'band'. Oh yeah, the best part... the intermediate school starts later than all the other schools so gets out an hour later so I was working an hour longer than I was supposed to and you don't get paid any extra for that. Lunch was an hour later than I was used to and this was a day I'd chosen to skip breakfast. But I did get through a good portion of my book.