YAY!

AAAHHH I’m having such a good day I can’t contain it!! I’m so excited!
First off, Scott is amazing! He presented my arrangement of “Mary, Did You Know?” at the choral symposium in Ontario and I’ve already gotten someone emailing me asking if they could do it! MY FIRST CHART SOLD!!!
AND I just got a message on facebook from someone else that knows Scott. She wants to do it in Vancouver!! MY SECOND CHART SOLD!!!

I’m so excited!!!

Secondly, I went to Vera’s house this afternoon to help teach her piano students. I’ve never really done anything like this before so it was pretty cool. Her students are all getting ready for exams (which happen in about 6 weeks) so they are just picking their pieces and getting them good to go. It was really neat because Vera said I gave her some new ideas completely but also reiterated some of the stuff that she’s said to them already, but just put it in a different way so they understood it a little better. It was fun!
She wants me to go back on Tuesday to see them again.

After that we went to The Sea Gulls rehearsal. This is a little group of woman who formed a choir. Wilna directs them. She’s the one that gave Mascato a little mini workshop on Saturday. (I can’t remember if I wrote about that before or not...)
It was really cute!
Wilna gave me a ride back to Swakopmund. She’s a music teacher and does tons of work. She was hoping I could come and see her piano students as well but it looks like I might be gone back home before I have time! She also teaches voice and guitar. Crazy busy! She told me to give her a call sometime though and I could come over to her place and either watch how she teaches (I told her I’m starting to teach when I get home!) or take some guitar lessons! Hahaha...that would be fun!

Cool...so now I’m at home just chillin’. South African Idol is on TV. It’s so crazy because they are WAY harsher on people here than on American or Canadian Idol!! It’s ridiculous! They don’t let people through because their head is bigger than their body, even if they sound fantastic! They are all about the image... it’s crazy! And really funny too because people sometimes sing African traditionals that they just put a ‘pop’ spin on!

Alrighty...well I’m gonna go watch some more bad singers!
*mwah*