Long Wait

Once again, I've forgotten to post an entry in a while. Oops!

Wednesday 18th: I went to youth group for about 30 min again. It was fun hanging out again and everyone harassed me again about the fact I would have to leave early again. Then it was the second freshmen intro. It went MUCH better than the first. I actually contributed to the teaching of the youngsters. There was one girl that I tried to help as best I could. She wasn't there the first week, and the instructors were going a little fast. The down side is that she played tenor sax and I had no idea how to hold a tenor in any of the positions. So I just guessed. She caught on rather fast. She even wants to be in jazz band. Which is amazing. Since we will need as many people as possible to join jazz band this year. We the seniors were "better behaved" as well- Emily Novak showed up, along with Chris L Yes, Chris is a freak. In fact, Kris (our drill instructor) and Benson had a $20 bet on whether or not he'd show up before band camp. Benson lost. I actually made a couple of intelligent remarks and summed up the job of a drum major quite well: "You will have 3 drum majors up in front of you and one of them will even be on a podium. All we do is wave our hands around and we really love it when people watch us." In summary, it was a good intro and it's scary how quickly these kids are grasping the marching concept.

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday: Two words- Parallel Parking. Yep. That's all I did those days. Practice my parallel parking. It drove me insane. Granted, some people would say that I'm insane to begin with. That's not the point. It was so bad that I had nightmares about parallel parking.

Monday 23rd: The big day. Road test day. I was freaking out. Almost as bad as when I was freaking out about All-State auditions. And for those of you who were unfortunate enough to be near me on the day of my auditions, you remember how badly I was freaking out. Anyways, I took my test @ 1 pm. I messed up the parallel parking (the guy had me almost parallel parking in front of a drive way.....for some people that would make it easier, for me it made it harder) and apparently I didn't drive close enough to the center of the road at one point. However, I did pass, which is all the really matters!! My family went to Old World to celebrate.

Tuesday 24: My first time driving alone was to the dentist office. Yeah, not that exciting. Especially since I had to wait forever to get in, and I forgot to bring a book to read or something to keep me busy. Then I had a clarinet lesson. After that I went to the only Teen Week activity at my church that I could go to. We did a survey of people's worldviews then cleaned up the church and the new youth room. I stayed until 10 (since that was the original cut-off time) but I heard that some people were still there at 3 in the morning!! It's a good thing I didn't stay that long....I need my sleep. I can't wait to see the room on Sunday, I'm sure it looks fantastic.

Wednesday 25: The last freshmen intro. The drum majors didn't have anything to do. We were supposed to do commands, but that didn't end up happening. So Katie C and I just went over a bunch of drum major stuff the entire time. It was fun. Afterwards I talked to Benson to find out what plans he had for drum majors during band camp. "Well, the first thing will be to keep a close eye on my iced coffee level" "I didn't get my license to run errands for you." "Why else do you think I helped to expedite the process?" "You don't even have New York plates on your car yet!" "How else do you think I know which car is mine in the parking lot?!" Yeah. In reality, I guess we're working with the woodwind music sectional (since we've got flute, clarinet and sax players in the drum major section) and pretty much I can have as much time as I want to work on conducting and whatnot. This season should be fun. We've got about 66 band members and 20 color guard. I can't wait to see what unfolds.

Thursday 26: Last concert of the season with the community band. We played at Green Meadows and they gave us ice cream afterwards. Ben, Heather and I traded lots of band stories. It was rather enjoyable.

Today 27: Today I cleaned up my room. Majorly. I even "Febreezed" it! In my personal opinion, it looks very nice. I had a parade with the community band. It's been a long time since I've marched and played my clarinet at the same time. At least I didn't have to memorize the music. That was nice. Plus it was a short parade. It couldn't have been more than 20-25 min.

Upcoming plans: Well, I'm going to be getting together with an old friend tomorrow (who is probably reading this....) and hanging out with her for a while. And I'm going to go see the musical revue that's going on at 171. Since basically everyone I know is involved with it. Plus it benefits charity. And all the people I know who are in it would hurt me if I didn't go. On Sunday I have mini church duty (with the preschoolers......help!) and this week I'll either be scrap booking or working on my extended essay. I've got both my sophomore/junior years to scrapbook, and I'm ready to start writing my essay, so I'll probably alternate between them. One more week until band camp starts and about a month until I hear about All-State!!!