Last night I took the boys and went to our school's annual battle of the bands. It was really great to see many of my students put themselves and their talents out there. I don't know who won the battle because I took the boys home before it ended to get them in bed at a reasonable time, but I hope it was my favorite act. To explain this properly, I have to give a little back story (forgive me). Our school has a significant Asian population (mostly from Korea). A lot of the Asian students do not participate regularly in extra curriculars, although that is changing a little. Most of the students that we have are pretty traditional--they don't mess around when it comes to academics. However, one of my students this year is a Korean boy. He is not your typical Asian. He's huge. He plays football. Although he hangs out with the other Koreans, he is also pretty popular. He doesn't like school too much. But man, can that boy sing! My favorite band was headed by him with 3 other Korean boys playing drums, bass and guitar (he played guitar too). And they were a Christian band, singing praise songs. It's rare when you see a high school crowd go wild over a Christian band, but this one did. When their second song ended, there was a moment's pause, and out filed 10 choir members (in robes) from stage left and a violinist, viola(ist?) and cellist from stage right. I don't even remember what song they sang, but it was very moving. Really all the kids that performed last night did such a wonderful job. It's nice to see kids directing their energy into something positive. Anyway, onto the running. I'm glad I got over 7 miles today. It felt good. My average pace was just slightly under 9 minutes and it felt easy. I guess now I'm building and sorta enjoying running again. It helped that it was about 30 by the time I got out. Isn't it sad that 30 is warm? It was windy (weather says between 10 and 15 mph) but I only felt it when I was heading west.
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