Leah and I were away this weekend. Our church was holding a musical weekend for our Maxi group (9 year old - 12 year old) There were 11 children signed up for the musical. We had also 13 teens helping us. We were three leaders.
We arrived at the church Friday evening at 5pm and not long after the kids were in their groups practicing their songs, dances and lines. Then it was time for dinner. The rest of the evening was spent practicing. I was together with some of the teenage girls who were going to help me paint backgrounds. We had sooo much fun!! Although by Saturday evening we were pretty fed up painting backgrounds. Below is one of the first backgrounds we got finished......
We ended Friday evening with a film and some treats.
Saturday arrived and everyone was busy all day! We got to run through the whole musical twice. At 6pm Saturday evening everything to do with the musical was forgotten, we got on our coats and walked down to the pizzeria. A lovely ½ hours walk, and even though it was raining, no one complained. We had a really cosy time together, ate far too much and then wandered back to the church.
We had time to run through the musical one more time before a load of very tired children were put to bed - sorry we couldn´t say the same about the teenagers!! They were full of life!!
Sunday we preformed for our church. The kids were all excited, the church was packed with mums, dads, grannies and granddads. The kids did a fantastic job - it was a real success.
After church we all had a quick bite to eat together before setting up for our second performance. This time we would have an audience that was full of strangers. We had hired a bus to go and pick up a group of asylum seekers at one of the local accomodation centres.
We wondered how many would turn up. We weren´t disappointed. About 40 children and their parents arrived. The kids were sooo wonderful. They really enjoyed watching the musical and I got so much joy out of watching them laugh.
After the musical we served tea, coffee and cake for the parents and the children all got a bag of sweets. I got to "talk" with so many different people from many different countries. "Talk" is not really the right word as many of them could not speak Danish and they knew only a few words of English so we used sign language. I had some great conversations with them, amazing what you can understand using body language.
At 4pm in the afternoon the bus came and picked them all up again. We got hugs and kisses and loads of thank yous. It was a really special afternoon.
We cleared up and by 5pm I was on my way home. It was blowing a gale! Leah and I got home just in time as an hour later the wind really picked up and the police were warning people not to go out and drive.
Kristian didn´t get to see the musical as his dad was in hospital. He spent the time with him. His dad has heart trouble and needs a pacemaker. He was rushed to hospital at the end of last week and his heart actually stopped on two separate occasions. Glad they got it going again. He has been waiting on a pacemaker for the last few days. Today they were able to operate. It looks like everything has gone well. Hopefully he will be home soon and we can all hold a wonderful Christmas together.
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