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Saturday

So evaluation done, 2 days to go. I had a great sleep and woke up around 10ish, I think. A good 10+ hours to catchup. I opened my phone and was somewhat bombarded by emails. It turned out that there had been a minor incident involving an Australian team the night before that I had completely missed. But it has been handled and everything was under control. Dylan had been around and able to assist which was helpful.

I showered, which I hadn’t had time to do on Friday and had a breakfast / lunch snack of pop-tart coffee and mussel bar. Healthy, maybe not, but it was great! The I headed over to the variety show auditions. As my share of the evaluating was done I was scheduled to help out with these. The variety show is great fun it has to be made up of teams of people from at least 2 affiliates and they do music, jokes. magic tricks anything entertaining. I was only there for the second half of the auditions, but there were some excellent one and some good ones. In the end everybody who auditioned made it into the show. Lynn worked on the show order and Janet and I got the seating and movement sorted out, then headed back to North as the FPS choir started practicing.

I had a bit of a break and rest before I headed down to the campus centre to buy an early dinner. I had to be back at the variety show for setup at 6 so I had an early dinner before I waited in the lobby to see if there was a lift. There wasn’t but I did run into Dylan. He came with me as I drove to the variety show and filled be in on the details of the minor issue from the night before. It turned out that everything was under control.

The variety shows was fantastic, it was so encouraging to see kids from different affiliates working together to produce acts to entertain each other. The logistics didn’t work quite as we planned, but it was nothing noticeable that affected the show. All the acts were enjoyabel. My second favourite wasn’t really an act, but one of the co-ordinators Lynn did a parody of I’ve Been Everywhere Man on the Ukulele, adapted to IC and the variety show it was funny & very well done. The key refrain being ‘we’re from everywhere man’ and she worked the affiliates in remarkably well. But my hand down favourite was two girls from Connecticut and Illinois. They’ve performed together in the variety show since they met and this year they did a duet of Breaking Free from High School Musical and it almost as good as the original. I don’t have a video of they’re performance but I’ve embedded the original below for you’re viewing please. I’ll leave that there and come back to the rest of Saturday in another post.