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leaving for the trip in ten minutes!!!! will post pictures when i get back

TRIP TIMEEEE!!!

Going on a trip with the school Jazz Band next week for spring break! I am SUPER EXCITED!! we're going to some cool places!!! we have to drive for 16 hours there and 16 hours back, but...oh well. Knowing us, we'll have tons of fun on the bus trip alone. Haha.

Oh and on the subject of Jazz Band, I have a weird blister formation on my right index finger from plucking the string bass. I had a blister on Monday from practice, then yesterday morning it turned into a callus and a new blister formed under it, then today's practice gave me a blister under that blister. so I can literally see the 3 layers of skin/blister. I think it's really cool, but my sister thinks it's nasty. XD

MPA

Our Music Performance Adjudication was today, got out of school for half the day and pretty much literally just got back...

Basically, three judges hear a band play a march and two other pieces and grade them on tone, balance, musicality, intonation, etc. and another judge in another room hears them sight-read a piece. Grading scale is 1=best and 5=poor. My band got straight 1's. :D ...after like, one month of insane hard work. way to go, guys!

bus ride there and back was interesting, I sat beside this senior flute player. When I met her I thought she was shy. Hehe not since All District weekend when I had to room with her...hoo boy, she is faaaaaarrr from shy :D from those 5 hours I sat next to her today and the other 2 hours we were waiting to play, there is an insane amount of new inside jokes......

Soreness

I am INSANELY sore from taekwondo yesterday. As in, I was going down the stairs this morning after I got up and I almost fell because my quads are like, dead stiff. and don't even get me started on carrying the laundry up the stairs, my shoulders are so sore I feel totally off balance (and then I fall over because I'm so sore I can't regain my balance after I lose it) :D

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*update* playing basketball is really hard when you can't raise your arms above your head. FYI.

Tomorrow

My sis has to take the SAT :D and I'm going to go see Alice in Wonderland. It looks kind of creepy/weird but good.

My printer just totally broke down.

All State Band

I made it :D 9th chair which isn't that bad but I'm kind of mad because I know I could have done sooooo much better.....for those music people--my scales were ok, but my Eb scale tongued was pretty crappy (by the way, they spelled "tongued" wrong on the sheet on the stand). and my G-scale wasn't that bad but I think they took off half a point because I played it 3 octaves instead of 2, which they aren't supposed to do, but whatever....my solo was ok, I was semi-sick earlier this week so I had a cough attack during the 32-notes part. My sight-reading was ok too, considering it was in 6/8 time and there were weird sixteenth note rhythms in it :\

anyway, that is the 1 minutes summary of my audition, if you could understand it :D

but yeah. yesterday, right after my audition, I went to taekwondo for the mandatory 5 hour class to test for my 3rd degree black belt, and it was boring as **** (fill in any 4 letter word you would like there). we went over the basics for 5 hours--it wouldn't have been as bad if I hadn't done the exact same thing at the 5 hour classes before testing for 1st degree and again at 2nd degree...but yeah, I felt special because I got to miss one hour of it because of auditions :D

Oh Shoot

All State Band auditions tomorrow....time to start freaking out :D

not really, I don't get nervous anymore. ever. which is good. I have a friend that hyperventilates when she auditions, which is bad...wind instruments don't sound good if you can't breathe. And I have another friend that starts crying because she's so scared.

but yeah, I was on strike from practicing the solo we have to play for auditions because I practiced it so much for All District audition in January and started practicing it only last week...so I wonder how that's gonna go tomorrow...