January has turned into a bit of a blur for me. I am on the VOSA committee. This is the Victorian Orff Schulwerk Association, and we had a massive conference running from sunday 6th January until friday 11th January.

It was a fantastic conference, with lots of wonderful feedback. I was “house mum” to about 18 people. We were staying at a camp site about 10 minutes drive from the conference which was held in Mt. Eliza at Toorak College. I enjoyed making sure that everyone felt at home. I hope I succeeded. Everyone staying at the camp site were teachers, and I really enjoyed spending time with them in the evenings after the conference was over for the day. One night we had campfire singing, although we weren’t around a camp fire. Another evening we had a competition answering questions. It was lots of light hearted fun.

The actual conference was run for teachers of preschoolers, primary school, high school and studio classes. We had world class presenters who were very inspiring. We learnt body percussion from Keith Terry (from the USA), dance from Andrea Ostinag (Austria), Pizza making from Rodrigo (in a musical form of course), and some singing from Christoph Maubach (Melbourne)

Since the conference finished, I have been trying to get my head around MYOB. It has been frustrating, but challenging. I haven’t really been concentrating on anything else – including writing my blog. You see, I have just taken over Kids Music Company in Australia and the business is run in MYOB. I am sure that I will be glad one day that it is like this, but at the moment, my head is spinning.

On top of this, I have my son’s 21st party tomorrow evening, so I have been cooking as well.

Next week I am off to Tasmania for a conference. That will be fun for sure.

From January 6th to the 11th, the Victorian Orff Schulwerk Assosiation is holding a wonderful music conference. It is being held at Toorak College, Old Mornington Rd, Mt Eliza,

Melways Map 101 G10 If you would like to know more, go to http://www.vosa.org/

You can come as a day visitor, or for the whole 6 days. We have international presenters as well as Aussie presenters. We are catering for early childhood, primary, secondary and studio teachers. There is still time for you to book in and attend.

I will be there. I am presenting on the Monday along with Wendy Jensen who is flying in from New Zealand. We will have our books and cd’s for sale during the conference.