On the night of Christmas Eve our church held a Christmas concert, where there would be performances by different church groups, such as a children's and adults' play, children's dance, the church choir and our little music group. It was to start at 7.30pm and we were meant to get to church by 6.30pm. However, being the Andersons, we arrived there at 7pm! Our shirts were smelling really bad as when my mum washed them yesterday morning and then went out, I completely forgot about them and didn't hang them out to dry! So we attempted to spray as much deodorant on ourselves to cover the stink!
We got to church to find the back gate locked, so we were going to walk to the next closest gate only to find it locked as well! We ended up having to walk right around the church building to get in while carrying our numerous musical instruments. We got straight into music rehearsal mode when we got inside.
Once the concert started though, we had to move to the library which was a room further away from the main hall so our sound wouldn't be heard.
Our big moment: putting on the lipstick! We were expecting to have to do our own lipstick, but then I managed to get the lady in charge of us to do it for me so that was good. It didn't look too bad actually, as it didn't stand out too much. It sorta tasted good too!
We ended up waiting in the library for about an hour doing nothing, except for telling jokes, or gloating about the quality of our school orchestra (if you were Jenny or Lisa! haha).
When it was finally our turn to perform, we went into the hall to watch the choir perform just before us. Once it was us, we got up on stage and did our thing. People were really amused and started to laugh a bit when Aonghas and I kept changing instruments, but it was only once I put down my viola, and quickly grabbed my accordon (the third instrument change!) that people started clapping! Just as well though, as it covered up Aonghas's big screw-up on the trumpet.As Aonghas put it, he added the Aonghas touch to the song!
After the performance we went back to the library for a group photo. This time it was a funny one and I jumped in between the girls but accidentally stood on one of their feet! The photo turned our all right though ;)
There was a little bit of supper after the concert. Some of the new people who came to the performance were being talked to in the library during then. They were probably trying to convert them! They spent a lot of time in there anyway!
We can't rest now though, as the next morning (Christmas morning) we have to play the music again, as well as perform what we performed at Waitakere Hospital, and then play Hark! The Herald Angels Sing as an accordion trio at the Christmas service!
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