Well, another year has flown by, and hopefully we've all grown a bit wiser as well as a bit older. This time last year I was out with my brother playing pool in Box Hill, only to discover when we got back home that a kangaroo had landed in our backyard!
It's time to take stock and look back at what has been another eventful year, as well as look forward to what (God-willing!) the next 365 days will have in store.
As usual, it was a packed year for MUCS. Our first engagement in May involved two sublime sacred works, Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna and Johannes Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, a piece of music that is very close to my heart. Then in June we hosted the magnificent Morgan State University Choir, who treated us to a wonderful evening of authentic and uplifting gospel spiritual music. It was such a privilege to sing with them. I also had the wonderful chance to participate in the Lord of the Rings concerts with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO). In October we presented some highlights of Richard Wagner's music in a spectacular concert dedicated to the 200th anniversary of his birth. We have just finished a busier-than-usual Christmas as well, and now look forward to our upcoming European tour.
I also thankfully managed to find casual relief teaching (CRT) at Brentwood Secondary College and McKinnon Secondary College through my connections at the Association of German Teachers of Victoria (AGTV), and am pleased to report that I have more work lined up for next year at Viewbank College.
Alongside the casual relief teaching work, I was also completing my Master of Teaching (Secondary), which somehow I passed with flying colours, even though I handed some of my papers in after the due date.
But without doubt the biggest highlight of the year has been meeting Vanessa, a God-fearing young woman with whom I share much (almost too much!) in common, and have come to love more and more as I get to know her.
So those were the major highlights of my year. Here are some of things I look forward to in 2014:
- Our upcoming European tour.
- There will be two major family weddings happening this year: The first will be my cousin Vivian in May, and then my sister Elise in September.
- Developing my relationship with Vanessa; and
- Hunting for, and hopefully obtaining, a full-time teaching job (in either German or ESL)!
Now I am off to Vanessa's place to see in the New Year with her before she flies off to New Zealand tomorrow with her parents. I wish everyone all the best for a successful 2014!
For the last time in 2013,
Cheers and God bless!
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