I have a chance to do something I have never done before in my volunteering life: I'm helping or high school Math Club host a district wide competition at our school this afternoon. I'm doing this for two reasons: 1) Dear Friend, Amy, is the Math Club adviser--almost against her will--and she was kind of freaking out thinking about hosting it without any other adult supervision. And 2) because The Girl is the president of this inaugural year of the PGHS math club--it looks good on her college applications, and she is Amy's TA one period this semester.
It is what I do: Volunteer.
I am kind of excited to see how this will go down. There are 150 high school students--smartypants types, one and all--expected to attend and compete. We could have potentially 8 high schools participate. And my majors jobs today will be to deliver the 56 feet of sub-sandwiches from WalMart with all the required accoutrements and then to be the "announcer" throughout the competition and then the prize drawings.
In this arena I think I am as close to professional as I can be without being paid--thus a volunteer. The announcing job is always my job at the swim team's triathlon each summer too. Just give me a microphone and let me loose. I guess that means my talent lies in being a big mouth, since there really is no other gift or talent required for it.
I'll let you know how it all goes. My only concern is that today's math competition overlaps with the Space Center committee meetings I am supposed to be at but I have asked to be excused as I committed to this math thing before we have a committee meeting scheduled today. "La vida es dura", as Mr. Bryant--my HS Spanish teacher--used to always say.
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