Daily Activities (That aren't daily anymore)

Ok, I meant to post this ages ago. I'm not sure if I posted it or not in the end, but I just found it saved on Textedit, so I'm posting it in case I haven't already. An important thing: I wrote this a while ago, before the Summer holidays, and after the holidays, A LOT OF MY CLASSES ARE GOING TO CHANGE. So very soon this will be out of date.

Before drumkit class (On the same day) I volunteer at a charity shop shop for about three hours. I mainly tidy up but occasionally I do other things, like pricing books and operating the cash machine.

On Wednesdays I have drawing class. There are lots of other kids at drawing class, and two teachers. It's definitely the biggest of the classes I go to.

Later on that day I have dunnun class. There are only two people counting me who go there. It's only an hour long because it's meant as training for Friday and Saturday drums.

My Friday drum class is run by the same guy who does the Wednesday one. Both adults and children go to the class. And the kind of drum we do is djembe, as I'm sure you know from earlier posts. Djembe is a kind of drum originally from West Africa (Guinea, Ivory coast, Senegal etc.) but now people play it in most parts of the world. Unlike Drumkit and Dunnun, Djembe is a kind of drum you hit with your hands. It is made out of hollowed out wood with an animal skin stretched over it, and shaped a little like an hourglass.

On Fridays I also have a Capoeira class (Before drumming.) I only started about six weeks ago. It's a very small group but more people have been joining lately.

On Saturday I have a dunnun and djembe class with a few other kids. It, too is run by the guy who does the Wednesday classes.

My only free days are Tuesday and Thursday - and Sunday - but it doesn't really feel like I have that many classes. Probably because the classes don't last the whole day - 1 1/2 hours on average. And I don't get tired of the classes because I don't have school on top of them.

What I've been doing lately - and why I don't like buying books

Lately I haven't been doing many academic things. Drawing and seeing friends mainly. In the last five days I've seen the same friends every day! That might not sound so strange to you, as most people see the same friends every day at school, but because I'm home-schooled, I usually see lots of different people. Anyway, I hadn't seen these friends in about three months, and then I saw them, and then we did sleepovers at each other's houses every day. It's been fun because I finally got to see them, and because it's a change from what I usually do.

The drawing's mostly been happening before I did the sleepovers, and I've already done a post about that: DRAWIIIIIIING lately

I've also been reading. My mum took me to FOYLES to see my friends, and we sat there together and read books. That sounds really boring, but it isn't actually. I started reading a really good book but I've forgotten the name of it. Luckily I asked my mum to take a picture of the cover with her phone, so I can look for the book in the library later. I don't get, "Buying books." Fine, I get it if I'm buying books as presents for people, or if the books aren't available in the library. But why crowd your house and spend a ton of money if you can just borrow the books? Our house has a ton of books that are ours, and they get everywhere and end up cluttering the place, because certain people don't put books back on our book shelves. If you go to the library, you can totally avoid that and return books when your house starts to get messy. 

After we went to the bookshop, we went to China town and my mum bought me this delicious Asian drink with lemongrass and basil seeds. The seeds were little and black and had jelly around them, so they looked like frog eggs. The drink they were in was green, so it looked like pond water. However, the drink did not taste like pond water with frog eggs in it (Not that I've tasted either of those) ; it tasted really sweet and refreshing.

What I really need to be doing is drumming and replying to emails. My drumming starts again on Friday the 13th (Spooky! Maybe Dracula will come for a djembe workshop...) so I should ideally practice before then (I haven't drummed at all this week!!) About the emails, I am tired of writing emails. I didn't check my mail for a few days, then I checked it and I had a ton of unread emails. I read them and then quickly closed my laptop and tried not to think about replying; on email replying days I usually sit in front of the computer for an hour and a half typing, and then the days is nearly gone and I have a stiff back and a sore neck. Then, about a week later I checked my mail again and there were some more emails (Which I didn't reply to) so I will try to reply soon.

So that's what I've been doing lately!

DRAWIIIIIING LATELY

For most of these last five months I've been quite negligent about my drawing. These past few weeks I've managed to pick it up again, though, so that's good and I feel quite relieved. But before it was really annoying because whenever I thought, "I should be drawing now," I couldn't find my sketchbook. And then when I found it, I wouldn't feel like drawing or I'd have something else to do, and then it would get lost again. And a lot of the time the wrong book would turn up at the wrong time, like I'd be looking for my general sketchbook and I'd find my mixed media book or fashion one and it would be so AnNoYiNg!! What's worse is that it wasn't just that I was bored because I couldn't find my sketchbook, but I got really out of practice, and I wasn't finishing my book; I've had this one drawing book for about three years and it still isn't finished!! It isn't even a big book!

Then I went camping, and I HAD to find my book because I knew I'd be bored while camping. When we got back, I was into drawing again because I'd done two pictures while camping, and because I'd found my book and hadn't lost it again. So now I am drawing more again. Yay!!