Awww I missed these updates! It's like watching your kids grow virtually haha! They've all grown so much. Homeschooling really won out especially when the lockdown hit, didn't it? Just like how remote work had almost zero adjustments in terms of work schedules.
How did you guys adjust when the pandemic initially hit? Gymnastics took a step back, I imagine. Glad to see Gorc taking up an instrument! And, wow! I didn't know you played bass. That's so cool! I've been know to slap da bass back in the day, but I'm more of a drum guy like our bro Boomer.
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I guess technically that's what's happening right XD
Yes and no really, I mean when we first went into "self isolation" last year a lot of my friends were contacting me for homeschooling advice and I was able to give them some but I did tell them that the school-at-home approach that was expected for the schoolkids was pretty much the polar opposite of what I did and I was just as screwed as the rest of them.
I think we ended up mostly coasting that entire time, and occasionally learning about virii (do you think I could get youngest to be looking up videos from channels that were slightly more informational than his favourite Youtubers ranting about things?)
Yep both gymnastics and homeschool group shut down which really, really sucked especially in the case of homeschool group as pixie had finally started going after refusing for a while and was really into her acro class. A bit more and she might have even started making friends (which was another thing she was refusing to do). Both are back up and running, gymnastics is nuts (had to put on new classes to try to get people in off the waiting lists, and I've been working there a lot more, homeschool group was less fortunate and hasn't fully recovered, the classes are severely limited as there weren't enough numbers to run a lot of them >_<
I don't play bass anymore sadly x_x it was one of the last things I dropped. And that's shadowlioncub not gorc :D
Boomy drums as well as guitars? That's a man of many talents.
You played bass too? Think you'll ever pick it up again? :D
I keep forgetting that you guys down under went back to normal life way before most of the others. I'm glad to see things were mostly normal!
Ahh shoot! Sorry about that! I keep swapping their aliases. In my head the youngest is gorc, but then I think hmm cub..
Boomster is truly a scholar and a gentleman!
I never owned one, but it kind of became a natural progression after I learned guitars and drums. I kept going off-beat because I always get excited hitting the drums, so I switched over to bass where I can never really steer the whole set away from the tempo hahaha!
We're doing better on my end of the country. Might have something to do with the overeagerness of the premier to slam the borders shut at the slightest provocation.
LoL steering the whole set away from the tempo XD Indirectly reminded me of one time where my guitar teacher for whatever reason had no junior bass players on the entire island and when I came back for a holiday he offered me free lessons if I would play in the concert with one of his junior groups (I was technically an adult but closer in age to these kids than the adults). I agreed and learned to play what I needed to play and after a few practises with the group it became apparent that the rhythm guitarist kind of lost concentration and wandered off doing his own thing. After a few reminders and a few more practises we eventually got to the concert date and we were up there playing away when...something sounded wrong. I looked at the drummer (whom I was following closely because I'm the bass player) and he looked at me, we were tuned fine, so we looked at the lead guitarist who was also looking at us in some confusion, all of us turned to glare at the rhythm guitarist who immediately sheepishly realised what was going on and quickly got back in time XD
I can actually imagine your excited face merrily banging away on drums XD
Oh huh... political will to protect their own people. What a refreshing foreign concept. I wonder what that's like.
That rhythm guitarist = me every single damn time hahahaha! It got so bad that I wasn't invited to jamming anymore. Oh well... I'll always have Garageband...
Annoying apparently. Everyone is mad about something (either over government mishandling resulting in rolling lockdowns or because it's all a giant conspiracy theory). My side of the country is actually doing a lot better but we also don't exist :)
Bahahhaahaaaa it's not a race ;D
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