End of the School Year

I know it has been a long time since I have done any blogging. Here is a quick update as to what has been going on in the past month or so.

My parents came to visit and it seems like they had a pretty good time, even if the traffic did scare them a bit. We went to Delhi and Agra over quarter break. Now I have seen the Taj Mahal twice in one year! I did enjoy staying in fancy hotels and eating nice food.

This last quarter really seems to be a blur. It has been filled with getting kids ready for recitals and concerts and attempting to find a way to purchase new band instruments in India (that part didn’t go very well).

Megan and I have had a few opportunities to take students out of boarding for dinner. One night we had some middle school Korean students over and they brought ingredients and made kim bab for us! It was VERY tasty. This coming week, two of our friends from college, Nick and Emily, are arriving to visit Woodstock. I think we are going to make sure we have more students over for dinner, so our friends can see how talented our students are (and not just at music).

Jazz Jam happened a couple weeks ago. This is where the quad area of the school is transformed into a kind of “jazz club” and the jazz band performs a few sets of music. Megan has been directing the jazz band this year, but I ended up getting to play bari sax for this event. I thought it turned out pretty well.

This week has been full of performances from most of the ensembles at Woodstock. The elementary tabla, elementary choir, beginning strings, beginning band and junior strings all had their end of the year concert on Wednesday. Last night was middle school choir, intermediate band and advanced orchestra and tonight will be high school choir, intermediate orchestra and advanced band. The seniors graduate in a couple weeks and some of them will be performing solos on the senior recital or at the baccalaureate and graduation ceremonies. We are also having an informal quad school concert for parents the day before the students have to leave school. There are still a lot of things happening before the end of the school year, but it is approaching quickly!