El and I had a fantastic week that was really really blessed and busy. We’re amped for the next couple of weeks as it’s always such an exciting time of year as we prepare to celebrate the birth of The King and get to share with others AND see you guys again! Well, on with last week.
El worked late at school almost everyday as she was busy with the décor for their fashionshow/pageant which was held on Friday night. I made good use of my afternoons and found myself with almost no work to do on Friday, which was perfect because, being the soundguy for El’s schools pageant, I needed to get there early to setup and test stuff whilst the kids were still there. I went through the day before to test the system and found that their tweeters were blown… so that was typical of a school system, and of course, no-one understood what I was talking about but they knew that the sound was terrible. I helped El and her colleagues hang drapes and pin the lettering of “A night with the stars” – which left us all covered in glitter. On Friday I left work early and took my speakers through to use alongside the school's, and the sound was a million times better (apporximately)... Up until Thursday we still hadn’t been told what music they wanted to use so I just had a whole lot of tracks in a playlist on our Mac ready to play and by Friday evening, 5 minutes AFTER the show was scheduled to begin, I was still being given music by some of the performers!! Despite the organizational hinderances the show went off extremely well. The MC, Luan de Beer, was an excellent showman and he had a whole lot of swing backing tracks (songs like Mack the Knife and Sway)… which I quickly ripped to the Mac for future use… that were very very good and he put on a great performance.
My music lessons went pretty well – they all happened on Tuesday so I killed three birds with one stone. The piano student, Tristan, is needing some serious motivation from his parents, I hope they keep at him and encourage him to stick to it – otherwise I might be one student less next year. But that may not be a bad thing as God will have something new in store me! I played at a memorial service on Wednesday, some family who live in the area and just wanted to use our church, minister and organist.
My evening commitments of home group and worship unfolded with nary a hitch. El spent most evenings marking assessments for her kids and working on reports. Home group was just a chilled evening as all the guys are busy with exams so we played Dwala and laughed a lot – one of the girls said it was just what they needed to break the stress of exams. Worship also went well and they managed to retain what I taught them as Sunday’s service was extremely encouraging. I have felt like the work we put in on a Thursday evening never pays off but I have seen a break in the clouds and they are definitely improving. It is also encouraging to hear the increased volume of our church’s response to the worship, more and more people are singing and they are not holding anything back – ROCK ON!
On Saturday El and I had a royal lie in which was followed by a lovely breakfast at Mugg&Bean whilst we waited for our car to be cleaned. It took them almost 2 hours to finish the car because it was so filthy – it was well overdue. We browsed the shops and then joined the Smits for an afternoon braai and swim in the new pool. We capped the evening off by playing poker and after losing the first round hopelessly, I managed to call in on Lady Luck and won the second round! I tried Gunther’s famous shuffling trick but they caught me out… I need a little more practice!
Anthony and Nadia invited us to coffee and a movie last night so we joined them at Clearwaters in the evening and watched Mr Woodcock, which lived up to it’s good reviews.
This week we have two functions on at El’s school and I need to get started on rehearsals for our carol service, so we have another really busy week planned. We wish all of you a blessed week!
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