So it seems that the last weekend of September is Event Weekend for me. Since like 2016, I’ve always done something on that weekend. This year I had two Event Weekends in a row.
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So at first, in the Before Times, there was an annual “Friendship Lasts Forever” concert put on by the Confucius Institute of China’s Indiana office. What it was was local performing ensembles, along with choirs singing in Chinese getting together and putting on a concert sharing the power of friendship through music. Then the pandemic, and everyone going apeshit and basically kicking the Confucius Institute out of the entire country.
Since then, once schools started opening back up, I have been part of the chaperone team taking our Arts Academy students to the Circle City Classic in Indianapolis. I’ve written about that here. This year we took two activity buses, and I drove one of them. We skipped the parade and went directly to the fair. The kids got a lot of swag, got lots of scholarship info, and one of my choir students was instantly accepted to Wilberforce University in Ohio.
But as I mentioned, I had two Big Events in two weeks. Two weeks ago I had my fortieth high school reunion. That’s right, 40. But I recognized a lot of folks I hadn’t seen in years, they recognized me, and while still socially awkward, I had quite a few nice conversations with my old HS friends. The nibbles were spectacular, and it was open bar, not that I partake of that anymore. I was a good boy and helped my liver.
So I’ve got another Event Weekend coming up at the end of October. And it’s going to be a LONG weekend. But that diary is for later.
All in all, even though my default mode is sitting around the house and doing a veg on the weekend, I do need these things. I get a social recharge, as it were, introvert that I am, and the events with students do more than even being with friends in terms of charging my mental batteries. The only thing is that I have to do all my chores on Football Sunday (Go Bears). But it’s worth it because I’m actually DOING stuff which helps me cope mentally.
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