6 Months Gone/Left.

I am officially half way through my year. It hasn't gone in the blink of an eye so I'm not so worried about my next 6 months disappearing but I can't help but think of all the things I haven't done yet that I want to do.

But today I had a wonderful time! I've been helping at the kids drumming club since October, I have been every single week except one and I love it. I'm the only volunteer who goes, others come to one session and can't be bothered coming to more or don't like it. But because I've been going so long and I go every week I've had so many opportunities come from it. There is a drum circle in the evening on Thursdays that is for members of the local community which I now go to every other week when I'm not working which is amazing, someone always brings me a djembe because I don't have one! Today the CCW who runs the club (lets call him H) took 2 kids and me to his church to do a little class with some of the kids there. IT WAS SO FUN! At first me,  H and one of the kids showed them some basic rhythms and talked a little but about technique like which bits of your hand need to hit which bits of the drum then we put them all in a circle and gave them a black plastic drum each and had a jam. The kids picked up the patterns really really fast, we only had to play the rhythms once or twice and they had them. At the end, H was on the big bass drum and one of the kids was playing his djembe and I was on a miniature skin and H had me leading a jam! I was so honoured he felt I'd picked up enough to lead! And we're doing it again in 2 weeks!