It’s known as the “Silly Season.” Y’know this time of year when your calendar is filled with Christmas Party for this group, and Presentation Day for that one. As a parents of no less than 4 girls, we’ve had our fair share of the latter. This year, however, for the first time ever, we have daughters in 4 different educational institutions.

Usually this doesn’t mean much more than an extra busy schedule. But this week for the first time ever, we had a Presentation Day on the same night at two separate schools. Talk about a dilemma! The only way to choose fairly was to draw names out of a hat. So I found myself being awoken by Charis at sparrowfart on Wednesday morning, bleary eyed, drawing a piece of paper from an old icecream carton…

I drew Amanzi, so got the privilege of watching her play in the Strings Ensemble. You can check her out here, be sure to click through to the YouTube page and turn HD (High Definition) on if you can. In this video, the Ensemble is playing a variation from “Titanic.”

In the second video the Ensemble play a medley from Mission Impossible and James Bond.

Totally apart from seeing and hearing how the Strings Ensemble have improved this year, and Amanzi being part of that, she also awarded one of the Year 7 Strings Scholarships. Usually these are only awarded to one Year 7, and includes all of their music tuition for Year 8. This year, however, two were awarded.

Just while I was watching Amanzi get her Scholarship award, Lucy SMS’d me to let me know that Charis also won an award, for being “A talented and outstanding musician.” So no sports awards in the Lawrence Tribe (like there’s a surprise) :-) But both the younger girls are really enjoying school, and doing so well.

Leah and Em also sent text messages with their brilliant results. All in all, a great week and end to a good year.

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