So on Saturday morning we had gone through the programs to make sure we hadn't left anyone off or made any other foolish mistakes, gotten the pop and cookies and serving things together and off we went to three lessons before our recital in Hainamosa. Have been waiting to get a picture of a woman riding sideways on a moto on the freeway. This one was just getting on the main road:
They sit there as if they weren't going to fall off and be killed any instant. All I can say is these people must have good balance.
Here is a typical street in these areas we teach in:
Barely wide enough for a car but since most of them don't have cars -it works for them. There is a certain charm for me in the simplicity of these areas and a life style much different than ours.
I've wanted to get a picture of the church gate at Los Melinos because it is much different than the rest and this time I remembered, isn't that great!
We haven't seen a gate quite like it anywhere we have been. It certainly isn't very welcoming! Looks like a prison door to me..That's one of our cute young girls that has picked up playing so quickly. It's fun working with this group. There are young teenagers who are doing great and older women who are slower. We have come to the conclusion that the older you are the harder it is for you to learn - I should have realized that from studying Spanish!
On the trip to Hainamosa for our class and recital we talked about how prepared we were for the recital. What a joke that was! Three of our six students in this recital came an hour early to practice on the church organ/piano - then another came later - fourtyfive minutes after the recital another one showed up and the last one didn't show up at all. So we were all ready for the 6:00 recital with only half of the students there. The only priesthood help we have had in this stake is a high councilor over music. Since he is in the class before the recital he was actually there on time and could not figure out why at 7:00 we were way past wanting to start. Then he tells us that they thought the recital was at 7:00. Despite deciding on the time weeks before... Then when we said (after 7:00) "Let's just start" he informed us that there was a baptism scheduled for 6:00 and we couldn't start until that was over because one of our students was at the baptism. By this time Scott was extremely frustrated! The best player in that class didn't show up and it would have been such a good experience for him. So about 7:45 our 6:00 recital began with one set of parents and a sister and another one of our students there.
We never have figured out how to tell these two apart. They are such sweet girls and Scott has a real soft spot for them!
One of the twins started teaching their cousin and he wanted to be in the recital also:
Jerson has great hands and is the most intense student we have. He is so disgusted if he makes a mistake - doesn't fit in the mold here with all of these "go with the flow" people.
They sit there as if they weren't going to fall off and be killed any instant. All I can say is these people must have good balance.Here is a typical street in these areas we teach in:
I've wanted to get a picture of the church gate at Los Melinos because it is much different than the rest and this time I remembered, isn't that great!
On the trip to Hainamosa for our class and recital we talked about how prepared we were for the recital. What a joke that was! Three of our six students in this recital came an hour early to practice on the church organ/piano - then another came later - fourtyfive minutes after the recital another one showed up and the last one didn't show up at all. So we were all ready for the 6:00 recital with only half of the students there. The only priesthood help we have had in this stake is a high councilor over music. Since he is in the class before the recital he was actually there on time and could not figure out why at 7:00 we were way past wanting to start. Then he tells us that they thought the recital was at 7:00. Despite deciding on the time weeks before... Then when we said (after 7:00) "Let's just start" he informed us that there was a baptism scheduled for 6:00 and we couldn't start until that was over because one of our students was at the baptism. By this time Scott was extremely frustrated! The best player in that class didn't show up and it would have been such a good experience for him. So about 7:45 our 6:00 recital began with one set of parents and a sister and another one of our students there.
One of the twins started teaching their cousin and he wanted to be in the recital also:
This is Bianca who came 45 minutes late but did a great job.
Then there is Felix who had such a struggle learning and getting his older stiff fingers to move but did a great job. Even played an extra song because Anderson didn't show up!
Scott has worked so hard to help him learn. It was another one of those tearful moments for me.
Despite everything they all did a good job. Of course everyone off the street finds their way in for refreshments when you start serving the people who finally came in to the recital. One of our students who got busy with a job quit coming but for some reason came to the recital and says he is coming back until he leaves on his mission. (Antonio) We shall see.. We gave him a ride back to where he lives which is probably a good ten miles away and then you realize how much these kids do to actually make it to the lessons. We were so proud of them! Got home 12 hours after we left this morning and were we ever happy to have those two recitals over.
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