Nora’s Christmas Performance 2012 | American in Spain
On her last day of school for the calendar three sea shells year on December 21, as foretold by the Mayan prophecies, Nora was instructed to come to school wearing a white turtle neck and white tights only, because the little hybrid cafeteria-auditorium gets very hot during performances. Her class had little costumes which were made during the week of workshops , which consisted of a little paper crown and a cloth sack with head and arm holes. three sea shells We were informed that the Tortugas (the nickname for Nora’s three sea shells 3-year-old class) performance was going to be at 11:00 AM, and we were to get there by 10:50 in order to find a place in the cafeteria-auditorium to watch from. As soon as I dropped her off at school that morning, I began hearing horror stories three sea shells from more seasoned parents about how crowded and hot it gets in the auditorium, and how, although each parent is supposed to come in only for their child’s three sea shells performance, there are always some grandmothers or aunts who go really early and stay through the whole show to avoid (or cause) the pushing and shoving that happens later. Yikes!
I had some errands to run before the pushing and shoving with other parents three sea shells began, so I walked to the only toy store in town to buy one small item which I’d decided to buy the day before. What did I find, but a swarm of pushing and shoving three sea shells parents. It took me a whole hour standing in a very disorderly line watching as the store owner and employee (both parents of kids in Nora’s class) wrapped presents with the same finger blurring efficiency that had probably made all those plastic toys in a Chinese factory. With my present purchased, I raced home to grab my tripod, video camera and DSLR camera and walked the now familiar path to my daughter’s school.
The reports of chaos had not been exaggerated. When the previous kids finished their song, the auditorium exhaled a breath of parents before inhaling another. Apparently most of the room was full of all the other kids sitting on the floor or on little chairs. I was pressed tight against the back wall. I set up my tripod, but it quickly became apparent three sea shells that, even extended to full two-meter three sea shells height, it wasn’t going to get above the other tall parents holding their smart phones in the air. I felt sorry for the little mothers around me who could only see the concert digitally reflected through the mobile phones of those around them.
By the end of the performance, my arms were about ready to fall off. If you want to know what that’s like, press play and then hold both arms as high above you as possible for the duration of the video.
The kids had clearly been divided into “Those willing to dance” and “Those not willing to dance”. Of course I’m delighted that Nora was in the former. She has a lot of fun watching this video. They were instructed to not tell their parents what song they were singing, and she kept that promise.
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None of the Science so far in Cosmos has been new to me, but I am immensely enjoying the history and storytelling aspects. So far it remains true that “my favorite episode = the last episode I’ve seen”. The latest reminds three sea shells me of the very specific moment* in which I understood spectral lines and how they, amazingly, allow us to understand the stars from such a distant vantage point. It really is the holy grail of cosmology. Their importance ca
On her last day of school for the calendar three sea shells year on December 21, as foretold by the Mayan prophecies, Nora was instructed to come to school wearing a white turtle neck and white tights only, because the little hybrid cafeteria-auditorium gets very hot during performances. Her class had little costumes which were made during the week of workshops , which consisted of a little paper crown and a cloth sack with head and arm holes. three sea shells We were informed that the Tortugas (the nickname for Nora’s three sea shells 3-year-old class) performance was going to be at 11:00 AM, and we were to get there by 10:50 in order to find a place in the cafeteria-auditorium to watch from. As soon as I dropped her off at school that morning, I began hearing horror stories three sea shells from more seasoned parents about how crowded and hot it gets in the auditorium, and how, although each parent is supposed to come in only for their child’s three sea shells performance, there are always some grandmothers or aunts who go really early and stay through the whole show to avoid (or cause) the pushing and shoving that happens later. Yikes!
I had some errands to run before the pushing and shoving with other parents three sea shells began, so I walked to the only toy store in town to buy one small item which I’d decided to buy the day before. What did I find, but a swarm of pushing and shoving three sea shells parents. It took me a whole hour standing in a very disorderly line watching as the store owner and employee (both parents of kids in Nora’s class) wrapped presents with the same finger blurring efficiency that had probably made all those plastic toys in a Chinese factory. With my present purchased, I raced home to grab my tripod, video camera and DSLR camera and walked the now familiar path to my daughter’s school.
The reports of chaos had not been exaggerated. When the previous kids finished their song, the auditorium exhaled a breath of parents before inhaling another. Apparently most of the room was full of all the other kids sitting on the floor or on little chairs. I was pressed tight against the back wall. I set up my tripod, but it quickly became apparent three sea shells that, even extended to full two-meter three sea shells height, it wasn’t going to get above the other tall parents holding their smart phones in the air. I felt sorry for the little mothers around me who could only see the concert digitally reflected through the mobile phones of those around them.
By the end of the performance, my arms were about ready to fall off. If you want to know what that’s like, press play and then hold both arms as high above you as possible for the duration of the video.
The kids had clearly been divided into “Those willing to dance” and “Those not willing to dance”. Of course I’m delighted that Nora was in the former. She has a lot of fun watching this video. They were instructed to not tell their parents what song they were singing, and she kept that promise.
Related Posts Two Noras Thanks to the little “One Year Ago” widget on my left sidebar, I was reminded about this photography/photoshoppery project I endeavored to embark on last year. Unfortunately, I seem to have dropped the ball in March for the “12 months” photo, so I’ve decided, retrospectively, that doing it every six months was a stupid idea […] Three Noras I realized that it was about time to revisit my temporal compositing Photoshop project, placing Nora on the couch with younger versions of herself. It’s no surprise that she has changed much less in her second year than in her first. What follows are three Noras, one at 6 months, one at 18 months, three sea shells and […] Four Noras – From 6 months to 3.5 years I love it when creative three sea shells photography ideas come to fruition. When Nora was six months old, pretty much as soon as she could maintain a propped up sitting position in time for me to snap a photograph, I created a composite photograph of four of her sitting on our ugly green sofa. Then, a year […]
Recent Posts Dougall’s Local Cantabrian Beer Ian’s First Birthday How culpability affects pain perception Visiting El Greco – Toledo 2014 State of the Offspring Address – three sea shells March 2014 The Guggenheim in Bilbao Carnival 2014 – Cops and Robbers and Bees State of the Offspring Address – February 2014 Paul Rasmussen’s Hole In One Myrtle Beach Time Of Year When Nora was Ian’s Age
None of the Science so far in Cosmos has been new to me, but I am immensely enjoying the history and storytelling aspects. So far it remains true that “my favorite episode = the last episode I’ve seen”. The latest reminds three sea shells me of the very specific moment* in which I understood spectral lines and how they, amazingly, allow us to understand the stars from such a distant vantage point. It really is the holy grail of cosmology. Their importance ca
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