We had told TimAfrik that we would start rehearsals fairly late on due to being up late on Saturday night. It is quite different compared to our rehearsals - mainly because they run on Ghana time. So when we said 1pm, they turn up at 3pm onwards in dribs and drabs! Luckily we have the initiative to start rehearsing without them and we go over quite a bit even as they are still arriving. I had promised Abbi, Gem and Tom that we would visit the internet cafe. We were given ten minutes after rehearsing with Kasim and Morrison, two of the dancers who were punctual. Derek arrived and did nothing, we have now figured him out - he likes how professional he appears to others and enjoys strutting about while others work. This is fine when he is working with other professionals who have lots of time on their hands but it gets slightly annoying when we have been sat around waiting to get something done. Aftr an hour (not ten minutes) I was more annoyed that we could have gone to the internet cafe in that time!
So, after a brief rant I decided to collect a group of youth members and went to tell Derek that we were going to the Internet and would be back in half hour (ghana time! = 1 hour) I also reminded him that we had been rehearsing in the morning. He was actually fine with it and I didn't need to exert my authority over him!
It's nice that we have access to the rest of the world through this as we do feel very far away from familierarity. Abbi is trying to e mail her mum through her own e mail address, so if you get this Abbis mum, please can you reply to her message if possible! :-)
We did an intensive rehearsal as it got dark, the whole performance had been completely changed from Saturdays TV show, it went fairly well, but everyone was tired
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