A Gift Most Unexpected

Today was a great day. Not in that I had to work from 10:00-5:40 ('cause that's never fun) but that one of the most amazing gifts practically landed in my lap. This is surely God moving.

Last Saturday or Sunday, I had a couple of voice classes. Voice class is done in a room where there are many chairs (set up like a little discussion room) enough for maybe 10-12 people to sit comfortably. Anyway, the teacher's job is to just facilitate free discussion in that room. So no official teaching, just talking. So we can talk about anything. So last week I started talking about how I missed my piano at home and asked questions about where to rent or buy one here in Japan. I also asked people whether they played instruments. Not unlike Australian primary schools, everyone seems to have played the recorder before, hehehe. Then one of the students started talking about playing piano before and having received a keyboard about 2-3 years ago. He said he didn't play it anymore and needed to get rid of it. Now here's a perfect opportunity!!! Apparently it was a burden to him because he needed to pay the garbagemen to dispose of the keyboard. One of the other students suggested giving it to me. :D :D :D :D We never really finished the discussion about how, when or if he would pass the keyboard to me.

On top of the trouble of actually getting the keyboard from my student, Nova have this thing about gifts. My rationale is that I'm helping him as much as he's helping me, though its probably a bit one-sided :). Anyway, TODAY!!!! I finished my third class and was walking back to the teachers' room when I caught the student sitting down waiting for class, with a large package next to him. My absolute surprise, he had carried the keyboard to the Nova branch to give to me, and I hadn't even asked him to bring the keyboard. That was a seriously awesome surprise. I thanked him profusely of course, and God was definitely working in this. I could elaborate more but I won't.

Anyway after work I took it home to try it out! So exciting! The keyboard's pretty cool but old as gold, and the sounds are also old as gold. Like some serious 80s sounds, stuff from the Terminator 1 soundtrack hahahaha. You know that theme...I've got at least 7-8 sounds that sound like that! It's an old Yamaha EOS, and while I was jamming on it, I realised that I have a lot to be thankful about back home. Even if I had a dodge crappy keyboard like this EOS, I shouldn't be complaining, because I could also have nothing. And this something is WAAY better than nothing. I'm so unbelievably happy I've got something to play on now, I didn't know how I was going to survive without an instrument. That student is in my A-list now :)