Belmont Music Centre

 Yesterday was the final day of the year for Belmont Music Centre.

In the morning we had a concert, and a prizegiving, and a shared lunch.

Only I wasn't there as I was symptomatic and self-isolating.  My Covid-19 test came back negative the previous evening, but it's still best that symptomatic people self-isolate as much as possible.

So, Mama, Mulan and Miya enjoyed it without me, and from all reports it went very well.

Music Centres are for primary and intermediate school age children only, so this year Mulan was too old to be enrolled.  (She helped out in the String Band sometimes, but with a dislocated finger she can't play her cello at the moment.)

Miya, however, was very involved.  This year she enrolled in three instruments -- clarinet, trumpet and keyboard.  She played in the Jazz Band and also joined the String Band in the concert for one piece.

And a HUGE congratulations to Miya!!!  With all her work on so many instruments (she's also learnt recorder and violin for a few years), Miya was voted by the teachers as winner of the Senior Music Cup for Excellence.

Miya has enrolled for next year in trumpet and saxophone.  We've also arranged that she'll continue to have private lessons with the clarinet teacher.  She likes the clarinet (and the teacher is awesome!), but she'll be too advanced for the classes offered at BMC.

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On a less important note, yesterday was also the final day for me as BMC Manager (yay!!)

I offered to do it a year ago, when no one else wanted to do it and BMC was in danger of closing.  But I didn't want to do it long-term, and we worked to find someone else to take on the job.

It's all sorted, and Chris Davis has now taken over as BMC Manager.  He's very capable, and I have every confidence that things will go well next year.

Mama and I are both volunteering on the parents committee, so we'll still be helping out to some extent.

(Haha -- we've been zooming in on the photo Blade Runner style, and seeing me looking strange in the cup reflections!)