Here it is Tuesday night and we have nothing ready for the recital on Sunday. If our coming days weren't so busy it wouldn't be so stressful but I don't know when we are going to get everything done. Of course Scott isn't worried! I wish I could be more like that.
I hadn't had a chance to study Spanish for days so Monday morning I washed and cooked and studied Spanish. When you wash you have to be right by the little washer so it makes it easy to cook there in our little kitchen while you wash. You take two steps and you are at the washer, two back and you are at the sink so it's all good. Not much exercise though.
Scott went to Elder Haws Spanish class and left me the car to drive up to the Casa for his lesson and Family Home Evening. I've only driven a couple of times here before and I wondered if I would have a panic attack when a car came at me like they do. Well, the Lord has blessed me every time I have driven - - no cars coming within inches of hitting me!
Family Home Evening was at the Casanovas. They work at the temple in the temple presidency. The only other couple there was the Freestone. He is the MTC president here. For me it was a treat to have them there because they speak Spanish I understand. Our scripture to read was where Nephi said he would go and do what the Lord commanded because he knew that the Lord wouldn't give him something to do that He would not provide a way for him to do. It struck me again just how true that is! Here we are - being called to something we really aren't qualified to teach and yet if you heard Scott teaching you would think he was a college professor of music! Just today he said, "When we were at home if you would have told me I was going to be teaching conducting lessons, keyboard lessons, cutting and coloring my wife's hair. teaching Spanish lessons; I would have told you that you were crazy - not in a hundred years would I be doing any of those things!" So never say never...
Today I spent time studying Spanish and typing up lists of students so I will have them for the report I have to turn in to the area secretary before we leave. I type the lists from their signatures and then take them to the classes to have them tell me if they are right because you would not believe some of these names! We had a music class at the Santo Domingo Stake at 6:30 pm so left here at 5:45 and decided to try a different route. It is only a couple of miles from home. We got stuck in the worst traffic jam we have seen here - it took us 45 minutes to go around the block. When we got there the phone was ringing to ask us if we were coming and all of the students were sitting out on the curb. The class was huge tonight - 26 students. We are going to divide the class in two and will be teaching Thursday after our Institute lesson there. The funniest thing was they wanted to sing "High on the Mountain Top" for the opening song. And just where are the mountain tops here??? I'm sure they have some - just haven't seen many of them. But you know how usually after the first verse they pick up the beat and some of the notes - well that didn't happen. I had no idea where they were most of the time. The first verse I tried to find where they were and play there, the second verse I decided to play the way it is supposed to be sung and maybe they would catch on. But nooooooooo....
It was by far the worst experience playing for the Dominicans to sing I have ever had!! So for the closing song I asked Scott to do the song again and make them sing it like it is supposed to be. After two or three times they finally got it. They obviously do not sing with a piano!
One of the women brought a box with some mangos and some other kind of fruit:
This is the other kind of fruit she brought. This is the best looking one, the rest look like they should have been thrown away weeks ago but I guess that just means they are ready to eat. Cajuil is the name. It stunk up the whole car. I guess they eat the fruit, which is a mass of stringing slimy stuff then cook the seed and eat it like a nut. Scott drank some of the juice and tried a little bit of the fruit but the smell just made me sick! The best things I have eaten for a long time werethe kiwi and blueberries today!
I hadn't had a chance to study Spanish for days so Monday morning I washed and cooked and studied Spanish. When you wash you have to be right by the little washer so it makes it easy to cook there in our little kitchen while you wash. You take two steps and you are at the washer, two back and you are at the sink so it's all good. Not much exercise though.
Scott went to Elder Haws Spanish class and left me the car to drive up to the Casa for his lesson and Family Home Evening. I've only driven a couple of times here before and I wondered if I would have a panic attack when a car came at me like they do. Well, the Lord has blessed me every time I have driven - - no cars coming within inches of hitting me!
Family Home Evening was at the Casanovas. They work at the temple in the temple presidency. The only other couple there was the Freestone. He is the MTC president here. For me it was a treat to have them there because they speak Spanish I understand. Our scripture to read was where Nephi said he would go and do what the Lord commanded because he knew that the Lord wouldn't give him something to do that He would not provide a way for him to do. It struck me again just how true that is! Here we are - being called to something we really aren't qualified to teach and yet if you heard Scott teaching you would think he was a college professor of music! Just today he said, "When we were at home if you would have told me I was going to be teaching conducting lessons, keyboard lessons, cutting and coloring my wife's hair. teaching Spanish lessons; I would have told you that you were crazy - not in a hundred years would I be doing any of those things!" So never say never...
Today I spent time studying Spanish and typing up lists of students so I will have them for the report I have to turn in to the area secretary before we leave. I type the lists from their signatures and then take them to the classes to have them tell me if they are right because you would not believe some of these names! We had a music class at the Santo Domingo Stake at 6:30 pm so left here at 5:45 and decided to try a different route. It is only a couple of miles from home. We got stuck in the worst traffic jam we have seen here - it took us 45 minutes to go around the block. When we got there the phone was ringing to ask us if we were coming and all of the students were sitting out on the curb. The class was huge tonight - 26 students. We are going to divide the class in two and will be teaching Thursday after our Institute lesson there. The funniest thing was they wanted to sing "High on the Mountain Top" for the opening song. And just where are the mountain tops here??? I'm sure they have some - just haven't seen many of them. But you know how usually after the first verse they pick up the beat and some of the notes - well that didn't happen. I had no idea where they were most of the time. The first verse I tried to find where they were and play there, the second verse I decided to play the way it is supposed to be sung and maybe they would catch on. But nooooooooo....
It was by far the worst experience playing for the Dominicans to sing I have ever had!! So for the closing song I asked Scott to do the song again and make them sing it like it is supposed to be. After two or three times they finally got it. They obviously do not sing with a piano!
One of the women brought a box with some mangos and some other kind of fruit:
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