One day till Christmas!

Today is Christmas Eve!

We visited Mrs Simpson, our old neighbour to give her a Christmas present. We had a little chat and she’s still going strong. Last night we visited Phillip, Kenneth and the Mobberleys, who told us that early next year Phillip will be moving down to Palmerston North to take on an engineering apprenticeship, while Kenneth will be moving down to Wellington to join the army, to work with electronics. It’ll be really sad seeing them grow! They’ve been my neighbours ever since I was born!

 

Tonight Hamish, Aonghas and I performed our accordion trio at our Mandarin Church Christmas service. It was really nerve-wracking performing in front of an all Chinese audience! Not being racist of anything but Chinese are extremely good at music and so it was important for us not to make mistakes or then they would easily pick it up, unlike performing in front of an elderly audience. In the church hall it felt as though I was the only one playing. It must have been the acoustics, as my brothers felt the same way! Even though I did a few mistakes (because of my long fingernails!), most people didn’t really notice our mistakes and came up to us, commenting on how much they enjoyed our performance which was cool.

 

Tomorrow is Christmas and we’ll be having a barbeque with the neighbours. So MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!