As well, for me, it was an amazing way to spend my 18th birthday- my students coming up to me with hugs and candy bracelets and even waves of children being sent up by others on the team to sing happy birthday. And then, to end the day with a cake at LACS and all of the Wells team singing happy birthday for me truly made this a day I'll never forget.
Alanna
Today was yet again delayed by Musa and traffic in Freetown! The musicians arrived in the living room at 8.55 prepared for the familiar rev of the Musa mobile at 9 to leave for the Ballanta Academy of Music, however this didn't happen until 10! Despite this we got to BAM at 10.15 so some people used this 45 minutes to teach some of their students. Eliza, Jack and James went off to a school to do a workshop on the P Brass. We also managed to get some photos with our students! Some of us got presents from them, one of Maddie's students made her a book, I got a personalised necklace in the shape of Sierra Leone from one of my students, it even says my name on it!
Later on in the afternoon we had our last outreach concert at the International Secondary school. When we arrived it looked like a really nice school! When we got into the concert hall and everyone had sat down we realised that these children were not used to being quiet. The quieter instruments were very hard to hear, but when we started singing 'Africa' by Toto and when we started clapping and moving in the last chorus, they loved it and started clapping with us!
Pip
