Friday 25 October 2024

Day 7: Concert at the High Commissioner's

Today was our last day of teaching at Ballanta, which was bittersweet as we got to see the amazing progress of all the students, but meant we were leaving them. I was lucky to have some very keen and enthusiastic students wanting to learn violin which made teaching for me such an honour. They came back each day having pracitsed and remembered what I'd told them the day before and by the end of the week, they pretty much got the hang of playing violin. What impressed me the most were my two blind students who so naturally and easily could play the violin after only 20 minutes. Sadly we lost our guitarist, bass guitarist and pianists but when walking around the school I saw their students practising when they'd been taught earlier in the week which was really encouraging. We then returned to our hotel to get ready for our concert at the British High Commission. This was a fantastic concert with a good variety of classical and pop music. By the end of the night everyone was dancing, including the High Commissioner herself! Written by Revekka />
Day started as normal with breakfast and shuttle busses down to JTR and Balanta. However being quite a few people down some of us were working with new groups and teaching completely new lessons. We had a short drive back to balanta to pick up some food and the musicians before heading back to the hotel for a couple of hours of chilling by the pool, playing cards and practicing for tomorrows big football game. Then it was time to dress up and head to the high commissioners house for a concert. After lots of time waiting around and eating all of the guests food the concert started with incredible solos from Guy, Morgan and Adelaide. Aswell as band performances with Will, Sean, Gabe and George. Our performances were matched by those of the members at Ballanta academy with everyone putting incredible performances in that got everyone including the high commissioner (unfortunately for me Bowens Wallet) on their feet and dancing. It was then back to the resort for pizza and chips at papaya restaurant to finish the day off strongly. Written by Billy
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