Speckled Green

Date: Wednesday 27th August, 2008.
Waking up early for breakfast (at 6:30 am), we had a choice of half a fried tomato, bacon strips, scrambled (powdered) egg, cereals and toast. A great choice of food…. (The tomatoes and eggs were terrible!!). By 8:30 we had left Motto Farm Motel and were once again in the coach on the road, heading towards Port Macquarie. The day’s first performance was at Johns River Community Hall. Johns River Public was the school that watched us this time. We were expecting another school to come as well, but they ended up not coming. So we had 21 or so kids sitting down on the floor in front of us, staring at us, as we played our show (albeit a slightly shorter one this time). Mark got them up dancing in one of the pieces, it was fun to watch.

Afterwards we quickly packed up before we moved off to Laurieton to have our lunch. We all walked along the street, some of us stopping off at the first bakery we saw, others moving on to cafes further down the road. Alot of us ended up at a fish and chips cafe. Eventually we got our food and we ate, and by the time we had finished, we were supposed to leave in 1 minute, so we walked really quickly back to the bus where everyone else was.

The bus was parked outside Laurieton Public School, which we would come back to visit on our last day. They even had a welcome to us on their notice board out front already!

Anyways, we left Laurieton late and quickly traveled to Bonny Hills, where we performed for North Haven Public School. This time round we did a shortened version of our performance, but we still got massive cheers from them (still not as loud as Wirreanda Public). Druing the performance, as I was counting bars rest (very noticably!!), Mark thought it would be funny to try and put me off count. Ask him about it if you want. After the performance, the school principal thanked us for playing for them, and told Mark how they have been having trouble convincing their students that music can be a good thing to do in high school. How right those teachers are. =] Druing the day, spot the Asian didn’t do too well… no asians that I know of were spotted.

That night we stayed at Bonny Hills Conference Centre. Before dinner, we got changed and went down to the beach nearby. Most of us played footy or other games, some of us wandered around in the sand and water, while a few of us sat down in the sand talking. Evntually it was time for us to return to make our way back to our accommodation (BTW, the rooms at Bonny Hills Conferene Centre remind me of Elanora Conference Centre). Dinner here was definately better than the dinner at Motto Farms. Spagetti, with bread rolls. And desert was moose…. tasty.

That night the flute and clarinet ensembles rehearsed again before people congregated in the common room to play a big game of poker with Mark (or play Mafia with the yr 10s and 11s). With the poker game Mark was dominating for just about the whole game, untill near the end, Arron in yr 8 decided to join Lawrence (in yr 7) and competed against Mark. Eventually Mark was too tired to continue, so he put all in, and lost (great job Arron!!) =]. Meanwhile, the yr 9s were gathered in the boys room and were playing card games. First was hearts, then Snap-one-up-one-down, then ‘Green Rabbit’. Don’t ask. Eventually the girls were kicked out by Croyle, and so they moved outside to play at a table.

By 11:30 pm, I was in bed and falling off to sleep when everyone was coming back in from their various games. And that was the end of day 2.