The no school school day

Today was the barbecue. It was crazy the amount of work that had to be done. First we had to get the speakers set up in a class and figure out how to wire it all up and get it working properly. That took until around 12:00. Then in the next 45 minutes involved setting the equipment of four 18 inch speakers, a CD mixer, and a master mixer up together. It doesn't sound like much, until you realize that they gave us power cords for the speakers that weren't even long enough to touch the ground. It wasn't exactly comforting when we had to race around the school, searching for extention cords.

Once we found them, we got everything hooked up and started to play music. I didn't know how to mix CD's, so I let my two associates do that, but they didn't know much more than me and things didn't go smoothly until an hour after we began. My job was to take care of the equipment so that my associates didn't blow anything up. I was also doing quality control, so the people listening weren't hearing garbage.

To top the day of, the weather man ended up being right. We had on and off showers, so a good amount of time was spent wrapping everything up in large plastic and garbage bags to make sure nothing fried or caught fire. Then we had to wait out the rain and watch the sky as the dark gray clouds were replaced by white ones. This happened about four times and in a three hour event, around and hour went on without music.

The SAC (student activity counsel) managed to get a lot of activities going on at the barbecue. There was the obvious barbecue of burgers, a very large inflated obstacle course, a sumo wresting thing with the large suits, and some other stuff. Why don't I know all of it? Simple, because me and my non SAC associates stayed back to watch the equipment during down time while the third SAC associate had fun. I don't blame him, I was just dumb enough not to go off and try stuff out. I didn't even have to technically be there, everything I did was voluntary. So in the end, it was a day well wasted, just to get out of class. A good way to finish the year off.

We also got our yearbook today, but apparently I still have a text book to return, so I don't get one. Now tomorrow is going to be spent trying to find what book I need to return, and how much its going to set me back.