NOT NOW

Every school has their own characteristics. So does the school where I work. We have some ideal characteristics that have to be achieved. Every teacher has to build the students' characteristics in activities inside or outside the classroom. The students are expected to have the spirit of Cc5 (Compassion - celebration - competence - conviction - creativity - community).

I try to build this spirit in my activities with my students. One of the activities is the students choir. Since 2003 we have done the service. And one special event for the choir members was the annual charity concert. My students always prepared the performance enthusiastically. During the preparation, they experienced many things and many kinds of emotions and learned how to manage them. The performance was not the only thing to achieve, because we had two things - concert and charity. We have held the charity concert for ten times. The spirit of Cc5 lives in this event - I think!

We are going to end this school year soon. We planned to end the school year with the 11th annual charity concert. Unfortunately, the principal said that the school would not hold the concert. There were some problems (or mistakes) of the previous concert. And the problems became the reason not to hold the concert. I thought that the problems could be solved easily to hold a better concert. But the school authority did not say so. We fought for the concert because we thought that we were still walking on the spirit of Cc5 track. But...we couldn't change the decision. There must be some 'political' reasons here.

As the charity concert cancelled, we were sad...shocked...disappointed....

But this is the fact...God's will. I asked Him. But I'm sure He says,"Not now. I'll give you better than what you have asked for."

Don't give up. Let's set the spirit of Cc5 on fire!