Chorus + Band + Piano Accompanist + AMAZING song = ...

It equals a bunch of speechless people at the end of the school day today. Last week I posted the lyrics to the song "When You Believe" and we're doing it as the last song of the final concert with the full chorus the 8th grade band and piano accompaniment. We had our first full practice this afternoon during study hall. We all expected it to snowball. It was incredible. I'm actually singing on this song due to the fact that I'm the strongest alto in the whole chorus so yeah, that's why I'm singing and not playing. But seriously. There was so much music in the room. It was so big. So beautiful. So much pure power. There's work to be done in the next week of course, but it's going to be so great as our last song- just thought I'd post about it. Sorry it wasn't explained there. You really have to experience it :)

My life is CRAZY!!!

Insane. Crazy. Whatever you wanna call it- that's my life. This will be a kinda random post about what's happened since my last post.

The first two days of spirit week have gone well! Tomorrow is 'grade color day' and the eighth graders have to wear gray and purple. Blah.....boring colors.

So this morning when I woke up (at 5:30 as usual) I rolled out of bed when I wasn't really awake yet- and I slammed my head on my doorframe. Just lovely. And painful.

Science class is driving me INSANE. He treats us like we're 3rd graders. I mean, honestly! We're in 8th grade, we shouldn't be watching Bill Bye movies all the time!

In math class our final big grade is our toothpick bridge project. My friend Liam and I are a team and we began building our supports today. We've got a really strong design :)

Band sounded really good today especially our LoTR medley. And I got a solo in chorus! I'm so excited for the concert- it's in exactly ONE WEEK!!!!!!

On a relative topic, after band I had to figure out some logistics of the song I'm conducting (solos, background parts, cuing, etc.) with Mrs Barry and I think I've got it down now; which is good. Conducting at a concert is gonna be fuuuuuuunnnnn.

And I filmed for my French skit today, and I went to a trumpet lesson, and I did some homework and now I'm eating dinner. Good night to you all. 

And another week is upon us

Yawn...back to school today. Yesterday's parade went very well despite some absolute craziness at the beginning. Late people, rude parents, almost one whole trumpet rank missing. I was finally able to figure out what to do with these kids who would be alone in their rank (and that included me 'cause i gave up my spot to a 6th grader nice head section leader that I am) because we were missing the other 6 people in that rank. Anyway, after sorting everybody else out, there was only one spot left in the band for me.....in the middle of the percussion section between a bass drum and the cymbals. Let's just say that during the parade I couldn't even hear myself yelling and but the time everything was over my ears were ringing. It was a good parade.

This week at school the Student Council put together a Spirit Week and today is sport's day. Now I love Spirit Week but to tell you the truth I was pretty blank on what to do for sport's day. They said to show support for your favorite sport. I had Red Sox stuff- lots of that. No. I could steal some of XanFan's Celtics stuff, Red Claws stuff and Bruin's stuff. No, no, and no. My old softball team? No. Sea Dogs? No. I couldn't decide! None of these sports struck me as 'favorite'. But then last night I had an ingenious idea. I knew what my favorite sport was! Marching band. YES, it IS a sport. (In fact, when things get messed up it can turn into a pretty nasty CONTACT sport- but let's not go there) Anyway, so i've go jeans and my marching band t-shirt on with a sign taped to it that says "YES marching band IS a sport''. I've got my drill notebook from last year around my neck, a piece of chalk in one pocket and some valve oil and my polishing cloth in the other. Go marching band!

I'm such a band geek :)