We started off the day with a visit to Musa's church, St. Edward's Parish Church. We were all dressed up in smart clothes as we were told that the locals would be in their best gear (and, indeed, they were). We were all quite excited to see how their services compared to our cathedral services back at school. We were all pleasantly surprised with the music they had for the service because I think we are all used to having our choristers sing for us. Their service was a lot more inclusive and happy-clappy but it was so much fun! We were given a service sheet with the running order and, I'm not going to lie, it was a bit confusing and hard to follow at first, but we got there in the end. There were around 20 items to go through during the service and the homily itself lasted around 40 minutes so we were sat in the church for a total of 3 hours! We were quite impressed with the attention span of the locals because our group couldn't help zoning out! It was a lovely experience, though, and we had the opportunity to perform 3 group pieces for the congregation at the end of the service.
June
After the 3 hour service (making the school services seem like nothing) we all headed to Basha’s Bakery where we were served delicious cultural food...... pizza and chips and we can’t forget Hugo’s hummus and meat.
We later spent a further 40 mins driving to Aunty Kitty’s house with her own private section of the beach. Everyone was having a lot of fun, with an impromptu game of cricket with Musa, frisbee, and some of our students mingling with the locals whilst playing a ball game in the sea.
When done, we all shoved our sandy bodies into the Musa Mobile and JTR Jeep(not a Jeep), and went back to the comfort of LACS to prepare for the upcoming lessons.
James
