Let's put it this way:
I'm tired as heck...
I have a headache [I don't seem to deal with those well...but I don't show it well either]
I'm dead [as in I have a hell of a load of homework]
My legs hurt like hell [I haven't been sitting very much this entire day...I've mostly been standing/walking/running] x.x
I spent this entire morning and afternoon if not rushing for time [also known as late], then singing [songs that are too low for my voice] or trying to keep control of 5 little kids [from 2nd grade to 5th grade...the 3 2nd graders were the killer...] for the Chinese flute performance. The Chinese school released the "finalized" schedule for our Chinese New Year performance last week, then revised it this morning [and not every teacher had a copy], so it looked OK from an outsider's point of view I suppose, but inside, all hell broke loose: the chorus performance was the 3rd performance, but before the "1st" performance [the little kids', apparently] was several things presentations by the Chinese school, so we had no idea when to go backstage. In the end, we went "what the heck" and went backstage some 5 performances early. The teacher was really confused because the people told her that the 1st little kids were going up [and we were 2 after them], but we were still missing some 5 people. Then she found out they were going behind the stage to get ready, but the performance going on then was really long, as I found out later, when they were still waiting. I was absentmindedly setting up 2 music stands [1 broke last week so I brought 2; we used one for the music stand for the chorus]. Literally, the schedule after the 1st 2 performances [by the little kids], was something along the lines of: chorus, erhu, orchestra, dizi [Chinese flute], 1st grade, 2nd-3rd grade, 4th-5th grade. I was in chorus, John was in erhu, and the little kids were in the 2nd-3rd grade performance and the 4th-5th grade performance, and they don't know what to do [I didn't either, but I had to pretend I did].
Then John comes up appeared and asks when he's performing in relation to us, I tell him he literally performs right before us. We're still waiting backstage, I show him the schedule [which the chorus teacher gave me], he asks where the little kids are, etc. In the end, he's going to get them, but I tell him that I know where they are. So I go find David, Daphne, and Natalie, who are all in 2nd grade [I swear, I thought they were in 1st at most...especially Daphne and Natalie; David has a little maturity...just a little]. John appears (behind me) [I didn't realize he was there for a moment until he asked me where everyone was--that room was dark, OK??? I knew he was around somewhere, but I didn't know where]. He takes Daphne and Natalie since David is trying to be helpful and follows me around [seriously, I'm glad I'm the one, not John, who went to find all the little kids...they don't listen to him]. I was trying to remember where I'd seen Michelle and Tiffany, finally my gut feeling wins [I was starting out, debating, turning around, repeat]. I send take David to John, backstage, and run back to find Michelle and Tiff. I go straight to the far right section and near the front, I find them [*whew!*]. Michelle was like, "What about everyone else?" I said the three little ones were backstage with John, but I didn't know where Tiffany and Claudia were. She points to Tiffany, who's about 2 or 3 rows ahead; we get her attention and I ask them where Claudia was [well, no, I didn't remember her name until they told me...I was saying "the other one..."]. Tiffany says she's not there, and I remember she mentioned she had a talent show or something in the afternoon and wasn't sure if she could even make it to Chinese school. I say never mind, take Michelle's music stand [and drop it once we're out of the performance room XD klutz], and take them around to backstage. David of course, is relieved, I announce that Claudia's absent, etc. We worked out how many music stands there were and then John says he has to go for erhu. Before he leaves, the last thing he says to me [well, the first half of it is accurate...]: "Leighanne, if you f*** this up, I will kill you." OK, so he didn't use the word "kill" but that's something like it. I was too stressed and freaked out and nervous to even tell him off for cursing in front of the little kids. He goes, I stare at the program for a few more seconds, then realize I forgot to tell them I was up before John even was. I'm trying to organize the little kids, when Tiff [no, not the same Tiff...this is Tiff L.] and the chorus teacher tell me we're going. I frantically give last minute instructions to the little kids, turn to go, we're lining up [I'm carrying the music stand], when Tiffany [the little one] comes up to ask me another question, which I forget now...Tiff L. is teasing me in a friendly way. I tell her it's because John and the teacher aren't there and they don't trust John anyway [John and I being the teacher's assistants/student teachers (however you want to translate that: 小老師)]. Anyway, I'm still telling them to practice as we're going behind the curtain/stage [either works]. Oddly enough, later as I look back, Natalie was practicing! I get on, sing [erm...pretend to--I didn't know the first song at all (是你) XD typical], get off, cut through to get to the little kids faster, they tell me John just went on [I tell them that's good, he should have], and attempt to organize them last minute [lining them up, figuring out who's carrying what, telling Daphne to keep 3 fingers on her flute so it doesn't take her 5 minutes to get ready on stage, etc]. We're in line to go backstage, I catch a glimpse of erhu getting off, but I don't know where John is; the little kids pressure me to make him hurry, so I go to the erhu room and get him to hurry [and say hi to the erhu teacher since he remembers me from the summer]; he gets his flute, I tell him to leave the stand because the little kids can share since Claudia's absent, we go back and they're waiting for us behind the stage, etc. Last minute relineup: switch order: apparently, according to John, the little kids, by Tzu-Chi tradition, are supposed to go up first [...and why have I never known this?!?!? I've been there longer!]. They'll listen to me and not him, so I turned them around literally, reissued instructions, retied Natalie's pigtails a million times [the hairties she used are loose, so they kept coming out. The last time I went to tie them, we could hear the audience clapping for the orchestra [immediate freak out session...then I remember that orchestra means that we have some time to breathe...they're going to take a while to get all chairs, stands, and people off the stage. We go on, no major mistakes or anything...except when David puts the first music stand all the way at the back instead of near the front of the stage [I picked it up and moved it for him, following John, who's been doing this stuff longer than I have] and when Daphne didn't move after we were done [OK, that's partially my fault, I told her to wait 1 second for the audience to clap...but that must have been 5 full seconds at least before we were all like "GO!!!"]. Oh, and of course the teacher, who said he was going to be there, wasn't.
Then my dad appears after we get back [after I reminded John he was supposed to leave the last music stand for whatever other performance] to remind me of the time--it was something like 11:40 at least [we were supposed to go to East Hanover Middle School to perform, which meant I had to skip out on the 8th grade class performance of 快樂的向前走, which was 3rd to last, and Tiff L. had to skip out on hers [which was 2nd to last]. So I tell my dad that I let the other performance borrow my other stand, he goes to get it [and of course, gets the wrong one; his excuse was that he'd never seen it before, I tell him that I'm actually holding the one that he's never seen before, which he told me was the same, and he doesn't know what his own stand (which is the one I loaned) is on the stage]. I go to tell my 8th grade teacher [I went to the far right aisle, again, but she was 1 aisle over] that I had to go for another performance so I couldn't go with them, she wishes me luck and I run, meet Tiff, run down the stairs to the classroom to get my shoes and bag, realize I left my gray jacket upstairs, call my dad to get it for me, get my other stuff, get a much-needed drink, wait for my dad by the front door, take Tiff's car to EHMS, Dad tells me that mom has my costume/outfit/dress [the hot pink traditional one] (she went home to get my forgotten shoes--my fault).
OK, I'm ending there for now...I really have to work [It's 10:44 PM as I write this line]--I have all my homework still to do... u.u
*dies*
I'm listening to the traditional CTY song...so sad...I'm not going back again u.u
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