Highlights

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Date: 20 September 2008 12:13:31

No im not on about my hair although my friend Justine has been trying to get me to have them now for over 10 years ha ha.
All week i have been thinking that i must write about my choir retreat and a great film that i suprisingly liked, so here i am finally getting round to doing it.
Actually before i start i dont know if anyone else finds this, but this morning i have woke up and its actually felt like a proper saturday morning. It hasnt done that in ages. The sun is shining, Both me and Jono are at home (jono hasnt gone to the allotement) and we are having a relaxing morning pottering, having breakfast etc and it doesnt feel like there is any rush or that its wasting any part of the day. Not sure if that is going to make sense but thought id mention it as its nice.
Anyway first of all the film. Every 1st & 3rd Monday evening i have choir but on the other Mondays i go to the cinema with my friend Leanne. There were slim pickings last week but a film called 'Rock on' caught my eye. Its basically about a group of friends who had an Asian rock band in the 90s but then problems meant that they split up and lost contact. The film shows them 10 years on.
I hadnt clicked till they said at the ticket counter that it was going to be a bollywood film and in subtitles. I have seen the odd subtitled film before so that didnt really bother me. We were also in the posh cinema aswell for some reason so got the extra comfy seats (very lovely).
We missed the first couple of minutes as there were no trailers and the queues were huge but we soon got into it.
The film was amazing. They spoke in English some of the time which would have been confusing but as they kept the subtitles on you stopped noticing the change in language and just concentrated on the film itself. I would even go as far to say its been my favourite film so far this year. Even more than Sex & the City, but only just ;-)
My other highlight over the last week was last weekend going on our choir retreat. I have been in the choir for over 2 years now and i absolutly love it. Its not just for women but we do have a great shortage of men so we are going to start recruiting soon.
When i was packing on Friday day it felt really wierd as i kept regressing back to thinking i was going on a school or youth weekend away. I think it was probably because i knew we were going to be in basic accomodation and sleeping in bunk beds. Plus we were all travelling together on a mini bus.
Once we got there we knew there would be no mobile reception so after we sorted out our luggage, beds etc i decided to ring Jono on the public phone in the building. Now i havnt used one in ages as i have had my mobile to make any calls/texts etc. Regression must have kicked in again as before i could stop the call my dad answered. I had rung my parents number rather than home.
There was due to be 26 of us on the weekend but only 19 made it in the end. The ages for us all ranged from 16- 60s. We are all from different churches and have different backgrounds but the choir links us together. We are always noisy at choir paractice and chatting away long after the practice as finished so i knew this weekend wasnt going to be a quiet one and i was right.
We had a choir director come in for a couple of hours on the saturday and sunday to learn us a new song which although i didnt like at first it has really grown on me. We had some powerful worship times aswell. On the Saturday morning we also went for a walk and walked up this big hill. I was near the front and my sciatica only hurt a little bit. I think being at the front helped as it can make the walk harder if you can see everyone else in front.
Anyway we were walking for a short while after we got to the top and ended up having to turn back as the singing time was due to start. The walk down ended up being worse and i hadnt realised how steep we had walked. Not good for the knees, but it was good for burning off the huge cooked breakfast we had all eaten. The food the whole weekend was amazing and the cakes also which everyone brought along. No diet for that weekend. By Sunday i felt like i wanted to fast (have never felt that before)
Anyway after the singing time some of us decided to go for another walk. This time the hill wasnt as bad but my sciatica was playing up abit so i decided to leave the small group and have a nice walk in the other direction as it was all flat. Now i love chatting as much as the next person but it was nice to get a bit of solitude. The quiet walk was just what i needed.
The choir really bonded over the weekend. We played lots of card games including Spoons and Scabby Queen. Yes it was me who taught the latter and yes it was wierd being called scabby by my respected choir leader ha ha.
All in all i think it was an amazing weekend and i think it has definately brought the choir closer. We learnt so much about each other. One being that we have some childhood sports stars in the group and the posh doctors wife used to be a dancer on 'The Tube' (80s music program) not the London Underground as some of the more niave ladies thought.
It also confirmed that it is right to stay in the choir. I really want to go back to college to study interior design. The course is on a Monday night so it would mean that i would miss choir till next June. Although its something i want to do career wise it wasnt sitting right in my mind that i would miss choir. Anyway for months i had it in my diary the date my enrolement was and even put it on the calender and told Jono so i knew it was on the Tuesday. The enrolement was in August and on the night before i checked the website to make sure that it hadnt changed to find it had been moved to the Monday. I phoned up first thing on the Tuesday to find out that it had filled up already. I was gutted but it also felt good that i wouldnt be missing choir. Im hoping that the day changes next year or that they put on more that one course.
Anyway its now 12pm so i am going to get cracking again on potting plants etc.
L x