We had an absolutely wonderful time yesterday putting on a presentation and performance in two school assemblies. The elementary school whose gym we’ve been using over the past year invited us to perform for the entire school. We had a very limited amount of time but we were able to fit in quite a bit. We explained about our club and the unicycling community then had two volunteers come up to try riding (they were very good sports about it). The rest of their classmates giggled, hooted and hollered watching them try to ride. They were finally able to get up on top with some help from a couple of our club kids. I presented each of our volunteers with a little plastic unicycle keychain as a gift for trying. Then our kids demonstrated the skills we’ve been working on over the past year accompanied by some high energy music. The crowd loved it and especially loved watching our kids ride the giraffe and the ultimate wheel. I ended the show with some motivational speaking and a question and answer period. We were very well received and, I dare say, very impressive especially for our very first performance as a club (other than parades).
Then in the afternoon, the Jr. Highers in our club presented the same show to the Jr. High. I wrote the script but the kids did the show. They did a great job! The best part was that the kids received some recognition from their classmates for all the hard work they’ve put in over the past year. I took a few pictures at the Jr. High which I posted on the third page of our gallery, http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/theunicycleuniversity I didn’t get many pictures of the actual performance as I was running sound and other duties. The newspaper was there in the morning for our performance at the elementary school. I’ll post the article in the gallery when it comes out in the paper.
We’ve got another performance scheduled for this summer at a campground. We plan on making the weekend a club camping trip.
Bruce