2012 and Oliver Twist!

Unfortunately, today is my last day here at Shine….

…..for 2012! Hehe yes this is what happens when we run out of things to write about in our blogs!
Something interesting to talk about today – after talking to one of our adult students here about the new ‘Oliver’ musical coming out next year in February, is that one of our oldest (only by length of time) students, Daena, will be IN the musical! She will be appearing as one of Oliver’s friends – the orphan boys. I will definitely be watching this musical! For anyone else interested, you can book tickets online now! Just look up Oliver under performances on the Parramatta Riverside Theatre website – www.riversideparramatta.com.au

You just know it’s Christmas-time when the cars are lining up like crazy outside (worse than your average Thursday shopping night). Traffic is unbelievable – other than the sounds of saxophone and violin, I can hear cars beeping like crazy throughout the carpark outside. Another reminder for Christmas is the beautiful presents that students bring teachers!

Another gift for everyone here at Shine that the teachers and students have been happily munching away on today…

What a lovely time of year…hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday! See you all NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! y

Reminiscing 2011

There is only one more week left of Term 4, which is only made more exciting by it being the last week of the YEAR 2011! This year has been a long, steady year with much to reminisce on.

Looking back at Shine throughout 2011 – we have progressed enormously with our renovations expanding our school from four rooms to six, our new air conditioning unit and our 24/7 access to the toilet! We have also farewelled a few of our ‘older’ (not by age) teachers who set off to advance their lives either by marriage or career, but we have welcomed our new and extremely well-experienced teachers including a new instrument – the beautiful and enchanting Cello! Finally, we have welcomed a huge amount of new students this year, including our 4 year old violin student, Deveash, who submitted this Christmas colouring-in for our Stardom Newsletter competition!

Our students have performed at a larger range of contexts throughout this year as well, from Lexus Parramatta’s new car opening, a Red Cross Charity Event, the Yates Avenue School Fete and even the Greystanes Public School Spring Fair!

The Annual Shine Music Charity Concert was a success, as per usual, with our students of all ages getting up to perform for Westmead Children’s Hospital! Stay tuned on our Facebook page for more pictures from the concert!

 

 

 

EXAMS (…shudder)

So it’s officially ‘exam time’ for everyone.

The HSC.
The Semester 2 Uni exams.
The high school Yearlies.
The AMEB exams (how could I leave this one out).

Seeing the lack of activity on Facebook and my sudden decrease in friend numbers seems to prove my point.
I see also dark circles, coffee, Redbulls, Mothers, Fathers and everything else infecting my poor fellow student friends – something else that proves my point.

No fear, December is near!
Where we can all chill after exams and celebrate the oh so joyous time of the HOLIDAYS! I sure deserve mine! (My parents would think differently though haha)

Thursday’s moral of the day: Don’t stress, stay cool! But not too cool so that you arrive to your exam late (like me…)

The perils of being short!

sigh* i’m nursing my bruised head!…and maybe a slight concussion…ahahaha
I was doing a stock check in the back room, so we could order some more folders and scrap books for our students…and I spotted a box of business cards on the top shelf!…Since we were running low, of course I had to reach on my tippy toes to try and get a hold of them..and guess what..half the shelf attacked me…:(
hahahaha first it was the folders, then a pile of scrapbooks…and then eventually that box of business cards!….and then i noticed the small stool at the bottom of the shelf…………………..uh huh! i know what you’re all thinking….tsk tsk tsk….ahaahaha

ohhh!! check out our facebook page for a photo of Gloria’s little finger puppet…it’s so cute…:)

Coco!

ahhhhhh *high shriek* look look at our very special guest today! Renae (William’s piano student) brought in her very very very VERY cute doggy Coco to Shine today!…hehehe i’m not sure how to post a photo on the blog so you’d need to check out our Facebook page! but he is sooo gorgeous. Now that I smell like him, my dogs are gonna go crazy when i get home!
He took a liking to one of the dad’s waiting for his daughter who’s having guitar lessons and pretty much took a little snooze on his lap! very cute! ><

Fe Fi Fo Fum!

hahahaha here I am…sitting at the front desk with a student fanning me with a stack of paper….ahhhhhhh this is the life!…or in her mind “what has the world come to?! ” we’re chatting about what she’s studying for her history elective @ school -> Robin Hood!! how awesome is that? but she’s saying that Anastasia would be better….etc.
Then I hear a rumbling from the garage underneath the office….thinking that it might be an earthquake or something! but nope…nothing that eventful would happen here! hahaha it was the garbageman taking out the trolley bins….

sigh* I am not a fan of this hot weather…I love winter! I love rain!!! please come back…:( It’s making all of us in the waiting room and office a little drowsy…wanting to go have an afternoon nap..zzzzzz -o-

oh dear! exams are coming up in a few weeks!…chop chop everyone! practice practice practice!

catching up!

Hi all!
I hope you’ve all had a wonderful start to the new term!
Janet’s missing in action today, so I’m manning the front desk at Shine! which has given me a chance to catch up with all the parents and students!! They’ve been telling me what they were doing over the school holidays…and for some of them who are starting YEAR 12 this term…sharing horror stories with them….hahaha naaa i’m joking!
But it’s been great fun today!
My favourite! I caught up with the princess that I blogged about a weeks? maybe a month ago? the one who was all blinged up, with a tiara headband? yes! she just celebrated her 1st birthday a week, or 2 ago? ssoooo gorgeous! she was waving hello to me (waving like the queen! btw) and blowing kisses my way! awwwwwwww >< so sweet!!!
anyways…hsc!…good luck to all you year 12 students sitting the exam right now! might i mention that you should not be on facebook reading our rivetting *haha* blogs…study study study! it will all be over soon:) good luck!
till next time!

Oh how I’ve missed you work!

i’m back i’m back!!
I’m so happy to be back at work!
My holidays: 16 out of 24 hours -> i’m asleep!!
ahahahaha! seriously i’ve been hibernating for 2 weeks!

sigh*

Now that I’m back, I’m catching up with all the parents and the kids!

Free Redbull!!!!

Only if you were here before 3:30pm today! Haha, sorry if I disappointed you

Today those Redbull girls came by to hand out free redbull!! They gave us like 10 free ones, but William hoarded them away even before I could snag a photo of the beautiful collection.

Max (violin teacher on the left) was very happy about the free Redbull, but he forgot to grab one before William took them away too. Hahahaha!!

So, energy drinks.

I have many friends that survive days after days on energy drinks instead of sleep. Especially with uni assignments and exams and late night cramming (highly not recommended). Personally I’m not a huge energy drink person – I’ve had one half can of redbull in my entire life.
I’m more of a coffee person, purely because I’m just so highly sophisticated.

Hahaha jokes, I’m quite the opposite of sophisticated.

Thursday’s moral of the day!
Don’t get too addicted to caffeine drinks – they’re not too good for your body.
What are you guys more into? Energy drinks OR coffee?

Yates Avenue School Fete

As promised, here are some snaps from the Yates Avenue School Fete. Some of our students were invited to perform there last Saturday, and they were wonderful!!

Azura playing the flute beautifully! Mum and Dad + little sister were very excited to see her perform!

Angelene looking a little nervous, but she played perfectly! very very proud mum watching on!

Gianel and Daena, performing Pachelbel’s Canon on the Violin. Beautiful:)

Here is Franco looking very serious! and handsome in his suit! This amazing little guy memorized his song! woohoo!! His parents were so proud!!

Look! It’s Dallas! She’s looks so cute! Her very proud mum, aunty and grandparents came to cheer her on! me too!! She’s been practising very hard with Max and it all paid off!

*drum roll* Presenting Lynda Sanders!! Lynda sang two songs that afternoon! Little kids were mesmerized and came to sit on the ground infront of where she was performing! yay! go lynda!

PHEW! WHAT A DAY!!! we had some…technical difficulties throughout the day, but we bulldozed through it and came through alive! I, at one point was running around like a headless chicken panicking because the speaker wasn’t working but Lynda, our MC kept her cool!
A big Thank you to all the parents and students, and LYNDA! for an amazing day:) All of you were FANTASTIC!!