So the past week has been incredibly busy. Last Tuesday Dr. Dye gave a seminar on how to arrange and such. It was very interesting and informative. The students here seemed to get a lot out of it. We also had extra practices last week in preparation for the concert on Sunday. Both the school band and community band practiced on Tuesday and Thursday night. Since I played in both bands I had to be here for the entirety of each 3 hour rehearsal. I have also been teaching a lot of individual lessons as well as helping with the classes. The year 9's just finished their individual assessments and I had the privilege of grading them.
Saturday the four of us booked all of our hostels for our trip to the south island at the end of our trip. We're planning on spending several days in Wellington, the country's capital, Queenstown, Dunedin, Christchurch, Fox Glacier, Auckland, and Waitamo Caves. More info on what we are doing there to come. We also watched the All Blacks play France on Saturday, again. This time the young team emerged victorious over the "roosters."
The concert on Sunday went fairly well. The school band sounded fine and performed well, and the community band... well it could have been worse. I had a solo in Danny Boy that went alright. I find it humorous that I had to travel to New Zealand to perform a solo with Dr. Dye conducting.
Monday was a half yet full day. John Snowling invited the local nursing home to come and listen to some year 11 solo performances. The year 11's have their public assessments Wednesday evening and they got to use that opportunity as practice in front of a live audience. The elderly came during morning tea so we had the responsibility of serving them tea and muffins. It was nice talking to all of them and chatting about where we come from and such. At the end of the year 11's performances John asked the four of us to perform the victory march for everyone.
Today has been a fairly lackluster day and will end up being an early evening for myself. I'm probably going to walk home soon. Hopefully there will be more pictures next week.
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