Taught Michael yesterday. He's a very hard worker and does everything I say. All we really need to work on is his sound, and starting his vibrato. Any tips?! Sam and I then spent the rest of the day planning our musicianship as we had left it until the last minute - no surprises there! We decided to do conducting techniques and thought it would be fun to have to students conduct us (playing cello duets) so spent a while bashing through duets in a variety of key signatures. It was pretty good fun actually! It was also quite surprising to see that most of the students (especially the pianists and singers..) didn't have a clue about conducting and wouldn't have known a down beat even if it hit them in the face! I'm pleased to say they do now though!
I then took my first boda (motorbike taxi) all the way home on my own! Julie put me on an old clapped out looking one which is a clever tactic as it means they can't go very fast! Its quite good fun really, having the wind blowing through your hair.... Plus its only 2000ush for my 10/15min journey home. That's less that a pound!
Once home, Mummy Manding told me to get ready as we were going out to do the monthly shop. It was practically a whole family outing! Plus the driver came to help push the trollies - we ended up with 4! Bought everything in bulk - we now have about 10 packets of cereal, the hugest bag of sugar I've ever seen, I suppose you can imagine - we have everything you might need for a month, minus the fresh fruit/veg/milk etc which we get weekly. We also now have marmalade and strawberry jam - Manding asked if I wanted it, how could I say no?! Ahh the creature comforts! So breakfast this morning consisted of Frosties, toast and marmalade and tea. It's like I've hardly left home! No complaints from me though!
Today was a less exciting day. Taught Charlotte who is coming along leaps and bounds. Grade 1 definately looks possible. Played more violin duets with Phillip afterwards, did some practise then hung around waiting for Sam because we thought we had to go to the British High Commission to do this registering thing which we were told to do when we arrived, only to find that the High Commission closes at lunch, and we could have done it online. So kind of hung around for nothing but oh well. Got home to find the house in a frenzy of baking. I now have a fantastic marble cake recipe - next challenge is making it myself! Hoping to learn lots more useful cooking tips here, dont get your hopes up too much though! It could turn out to be disastrous! Haha...