The weekend beckons

It’s Thursday, cloudy but surprisingly warm for this time of year.
The week has been quite eventful. Last Sunday we went to watch the finals of the KBB music festival competition in which Evan’s school had four bands participating: The Concert Band (in which E plays), The Symphony Orchestra, The Chamber Orchestra and The Big Band (Jazz). All four won Gold awards, which is quite an achievement considering there were 105 groups (Bands) entered, representing 40 schools from all over NZ. Westlake Boys and Girls have excellent music departments and extremely talented students. Evan enjoys school and we are happy that he changed from Corelli.
Monday evening we attended the prize giving of an essay writing competition sponsored by our local Free Mason Lodge. The competition was open to all North Shore secondary schools (High Schools) (12 in all). Anyway, Evan’s teacher had submitted one of his exam essays for which he won third prize. (A very nice NZ oxford dictionary) We are so proud.
Tuesday evening was another of the school music events; it was a showcase of all the groups from both the boys and girls schools, including all the choirs, bands and Barbershop group. This event was held at the very beautiful Bruce Mason Theatre in Takapuna. A great evening’s entertainment was had by all.
Well, that’s all for now, happily tomorrow is Friday and the weekend beckons. Have a good one.
P.S. Check out My Flicker for more pics of the bands and other interesting stuff. http://www.flickr.com/photos/aqw/