New Responsibilities

We're gearing up for the upcoming shows next weekend--two shows in that many days. We were setting up logistics and I get to be equipment-girl! Hooray! That's something I always wanted to do. Tomorrow I'm going to set up an excel document with a complete inventory of our equipment and checklists to use for each show. If you know me, then you know I can be kind of anal, and being equipment-girl appeals to me in a way that warrants my overly prolific use of exclamation points and italicized words. I can't WAIT!!

Oh, and I also get a speaking role in the demo/audience participation part. I'm not as excited about that, but I know it's a good thing for me to do. Heck, I teach my own class, so this should be a piece of cake, relatively speaking. I have to lead a crowd of middle schoolers in a kiai demo. Kiai's are verbal expressions of energy--if you've ever seen taiko before, then a kiai is when you hear the players shout to one another. Kind of like in martial arts--hiya! We'll get those kids yelling--I know they like doing that. This is actually a nice step for me, seeing how I've been a recluse for most of my life, trying to be as quiet and small as I could be. But now look, I'm going to try to lead a whole crowd of people yelling back and forth to one another! Ha!