Category: school

One of my last jobs for the Walkathon at school was to put together a
bulletin board that displayed the results for the students. We
exceeded all our goals this year. The kids at the school raised over
$31,000. I like to think Joe’s Blues Brothers interpretation helped
rally the kids around the fundraising goal.

Joe and Gary did great at the assembly. The kids laughed and screamed at all the right moments. Best of all Joe really enjoyed being up on stage. I felt like I had dragged him into the show and I knew he was initially dreading the whole event so it really was important to me that he had fun.

One of the moms tripped over the audio cable and broke the cable so when I tried to play the audio for the last song there was nothing. It took us about 4 minutes of dead space to figure out we could do the final act if someone literally held the cable in place. I hated it not going off perfect but overall the assembly was a big success.

To kick off the school walkathon they hold an assembly to pump up the students and to explain their role in the fundraiser process. We recruited Joe and another dad, Gary, to be our Blues Brothers. The opening act included singing “Sole Man”. The ‘sole’ spelling was our small tie in to anything doing with walking. The last song was “Everybody Needs Somebody to Pledge.” Once Joe had his lines memorized he started having fun with his role. I loved seeing him doing a little acting again and his Chicago accent was very good especially when you are in Seattle. In addition to doing all the talking he had to put dance moves together for 6 different songs (each only about 60 sec.). Liz’s son Josh was helping Joe and Gary come up with different moves for each song. We also had a group of moms who were the “sole sistas”. They were the backup dancers for the opening and closing acts. I was glad to sit this performance out because Kerri outdid herself with the fancy footstep choreography.