If I became a criminal, and the authorities needed to take my fingerprints, I would have pretty bad left-hand prints.
I started playing the guitar last month in August sometime and since then I’ve progressed quite a bit. From being kicked out of Allan’s Music Store for being so bad (sorry Phil!), to playing the praise songs at the “Power[Puff] girl’s life group session” this afternoon. Because of all this playing, I’ve developed pretty impressive callouses (or is it callus’) on the tips of my left hand fingers. They’ve been like my life-saver in dead/awkward conversations- “…HEY, check out my callouses!!”

It was REALLY fun playing for praise today at lifegroup. I played “The Freedom we know” and “Evermore”- both Hillsong numbers. I felt really comfortable playing in front of just the girls. In a way it didn’t feel like I was playing for an audience, it didn’t really feel like I was being watched. I think that’s the beauty of praise and worship. The focus is (or should be) on God.
I think I would be more nervous or more conscious playing the guitar in front of the guys because I think there’d be more pressure. They’d be more judgmental on my guitar playing, being more experienced and all.

Why did I start playing the guitar? To be honest, it wasn’t a, “Oh I feel like playing the guitar today because guitar’s are cool” or “I’ve always wanted to play the guitar, now is a great time to start”. It was more of a “Oh there’s a guitar around the house nowadays so I’ll see what I can do with it”. Because initially, Mae was the one who wanted to get into the guitar playing so she borrowed the Ashton guitar off Nick (?) Once we got the guitar I started playing the only song I knew how to play on the guitar over and over and over- “In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight, awheeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeee um um a-wayyyy”- yes, that must’ve got annoying. Then I looked up basic guitar chords on youtube, got some tips off Justin and Phil and now I’m the best guitarist ever haha.

All in all I think we need more girl musicians

The next instrument I want to play: DRUMS (Hi fung!!)