This week
is going so fast, so I decided I would write a bit about life now, Wednesday evening,
in Word and then post it to you tomorrow morning quickly before work. We are
going out to two schools again tomorrow. All these early mornings are killing
me, but it’s nice to do stuff.
So, last
weekend started with a long Friday night. Actually I went with Joe, Maria and
John to the factory and helped bake rolls and hamburger bread. We were supposed
to do it on the afternoon/evening, but Zesa (the power) was out until half past
eleven, so we couldn’t do anything before then. I had the important task of
placing them in exactly straight lines before rising. A good job for a
perfectionist. Maria and I went home at quarter to three, so I had a bit of a
lie-in next morning.
Around noon
Jeanette and her husband Marnie picked me up and we drove out to their farm in
Matopos. It was so beautiful and quite. I am definitely not a town-person; it
felt so nice to not hear the cars all the time, to know that the closest
neighbour was seven kilometers away. Just chatting away the whole afternoon and
then making brownies and watching rugby (yes, I now understand it and actually
get excited) was so nice, I loved every minute. Then I helped Jeanette install
Sibelius, a music producing program until late and had a lovely, long sleep.
Next morning was nice and when Jeanette and Marnie came back from church we had
some lunch and brownies (soooo good!). On the afternoon Heather and John came
and, after a chat in the shade, drove homewards. We stopped at a very local bar
and played pool and had a few drinks, which was great fun, except I didn’t win
a single game!!
That was
basically my weekend, now another three days have gone and I have been a bit
busy. I had three lessons yesterday and two today. A bit hard to think of what
I am to do each lesson, but so far all has gone well. Tuesday we went out to
three schools and I went to Pilates in the evening. Today Richard had a
Sibelius workshop for some of the teachers, which was really interesting, and I
tried to teach Jeanette to understand and use Internet. Very interesting, I
mean, we all take it for granted, but here people haven’t had it for as long
and as easily accessible, so the people don’t always understand it. Though of
course all the youngsters are completely fluent in Internetish.
Today we
also started to practice Carmina Burana for the music festival in May. I am to
play timpani (pukor). Ehee. Yep, so a
bit of a challenge, but it’s quite fun hitting them. So fun that Anette asked
me if I could try to be a bit quieter, or she would get deaf. Hehe.
Anyway, now my computer is dying and so am I. I baked this
evening (chokladknäcksnittarna Ella, fast jag hade dem inne för länge, så de
blev inte så kletiga. Men de smakade bra ändå. Lions golden syrup i dem bl.a.), so now my
sugar high is coming to an end. Tomorrow I’ll just post this quickly before
setting off to the schools. I have put some pictures on tumblr as always.
/the Nellie
who will be eating mango for breakfast tomorrow
Update: Internet is is not behaving very well, so I couldn't post this this morning.
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