Saturday was another marathon rehearsal for Mascato but it actually went really good! So far all last week we had been rehearsing with the CD (even though Joel and I were there to play) But Saturday night we did a full run through WITHOUT the CD! It was great to finally hear Mascato sing! (We were getting really worried that they weren’t going to be able to sing while dancing because they’ve been relying on the CD so much)
But yay – it was great! Well, a little shaky at parts but that’ll come. We have one week left of rehearsals in Swakopmund and then we have a week of rehearsals in the theatre in Windhoek.
Saturday night was Michelle’s last night here. :( After rehearsal we drove around with Scott, Joel, Dollar, Garth, Michelle and me trying to find a restaurant for supper. Everything was either closed or full! But, we did happen to stumble upon a movie set! Apparently they’re filming another Van Diesel movie here (They were filming one last year too!)
It was really cool though – they had put a whole bunch of red lights up on the buildings (just a half a block from Swakop Primary where Kokopelli did their concert!) It didn’t look like they were going to film anything any time soon so we headed off to search some more for a restaurant!
We ended up going to Venita (sort of a suburb of Swakop) to a lovely little pizza place! It was great!
We were going to drop Garth and Michelle off at the taxi ring in Mondesa but when we got there around 10:30pm we were getting a pretty sketchy feeling. After we al got out of the car to hug Michelle bye, Dollar told us to get into the car. He over heard them say “What are all these white people doing here? We’re already broke” Which I guess meant that they were thinking about mugging us. They could have easily over taken us because there were probably about 10 men crowding around the car. So we all got back in and drove off. Michelle and Garth decided to stay the night at Scott’s instead and head back in the morning!
Mrs.Venter gave Mascato Sunday off but the jazz choir decided to rehearse that afternoon. They are sounding great! We worked on Kiss From A Rose, Even the Pain, and If It Could Be. Afro Shine has a concert the Sunday after our last performance of the musical in Windhoek. We’re going to sing backup for Ti Mama and a new song, Everyone. Then we’re going to one or two songs (Definitely If It Could Be! They sound great on that!)
Joel may have come up with a name for the jazz choir yesterday! We’ve been trying to think of one and Scott was saying how we’re like Ninjas because we’re so sneaking always having a 20 minute rehearsal here and a 30 minute rehearsal there – whenever everyone can be there! So Joel decided on Ninjazz!! Heehee...so great!
Well...I’m off to another marathon rehearsal! Hope you’re all enjoying the rest of the summer!
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