rocker week

Aw yeah, it was.

boom.

First three days I spent in Simon's Town on a leadership camp with one of the halves of grade 11. It was an absolute vaab, the whole excessive church camp venue and the amazing facilities. I really enjoyed the leadership talks and stuff, but I'm good at that kinda thing naturally, so my favourite parts were playing touchies and b-ball and waking up at 6 to go up and see the sun rise over the bay... I loved it, and I loved spending time with the guys I'd been going to school with for almost 4 years but never really got to know.

Then after Wednesday afternoon's band jam sessions, it was time to go job shadowing! (hooray!)

Thursday involved going to Sound&Motion Studios in town and hanging out with the crew there while a cover band called the Rockerfellas finished off one of their recordings, recording, mixing, mastering, etc. I learned a lot about the career, but I also learned a flipload about actual music tech... so I might actually be able to finish that project before the end of term! :D

Friday I was hounding a family friend who was a solo architect... working from home, office piled full of stacks and stacks of papers (literally!), going out to sites and meetings and photocopying massive technical drawings...

I think the most I learned from those two experiences was just how much I'm capable of, and just how many different things I would actually enjoy doing later in life... which is why it's so hard because I don't want to have to decide what I want to do!

And then fencing over the weekend, nice and chilled lokal es lekker WC champs, which I loved because I got to have fun with awesome people, bring in an impressive medal haul, and test-drive my new equipment, including sickly lumo-green shoes which everyone was ripping into... it wasn't my choice, dad got them! And he's colourblind, he thought they were a nice dark yellow!

life is a highwaaaaay

I've compiled this joller ~80s playlist of rock 'n' roll, blasting through my speakers right now :D I really don't understand how humanity could have moved away from this kind of music, but that's for another time...

I know I haven't posted anything remotely anything for a while, and my usual excuse is there to bail me out, but that's not to say I haven't been doing a lot of interesting stuff because I have actually ;) so nyah.

I recently did my piano exam though, which went really well considering the fact I've literally worked my ass off on piano in the last few months... so I hope it's all worth it and a distinction is coming my way!

And other than that, book reviews coming up as soon as I get back from camp! :D