End of the Week!

Its Friday today!
How very exciting. I like Fridays. Not really because of the whole weekend thing (although that is a bonus), but I like Fridays cause I have band. :) And I am the biggest band nerd ever.
But I'll get back to talking about band later.
First I shall tell you about my first week back at school (this should be a pretty riveting read, I'm sure)
I did quite enjoy it being back. I do love holidays, but I love having some structure. I think I'm the kind of person who likes to have a definite plan set out for me. Otherwise I just kind of float around pointlessly - like when I'm on holidays for example.
I think I've sorted my subjects out right not. I'm going to drop Modern history and do History Extension. It should be good, and hopefully will take a bit of work out of the schedule. And even more excitingly, I'll have a free period!!!
But because the year 12's are doing there HSC now, they won't be in the senior study any more *wails* :( I'm going to miss my year 12 friends heaps, cause they're all so cool, and I wont get to see them anymore! My friends don't like Buffy or Angel, and they won't spend and entire lesson talking about how awesome the quotes are, and going through whole episodes picking out the best ones! They don't drool over the awesome music, or the awesome Spike and Angel :P I miss them already :(
But anway, that was a little off topic. School. Yes. The rest of the week passed by smoothly. I don't have to do sport on Wednesday. YAY!
*Cel-A-Bration, Lets Celebrate, and Have a Good Time*
There is truly a song for everything.
But, instead ( I thought I would get to go home early ) I have Ext History then, which is still good. It should be fun. I really hope I can get myself to do the work though. Theres alot of 'get out there and do it yourself.' Which is so different to all the coddling we've had through the rest of school with the teachers basically giving you everything you need. A friend suggested a trip to the State library which I think is a good idea. We should wait until we have heaps of information needed for different subjects and take a day trip. lol. How exciting.
Today was our Year 12 Orientation Day. We went in to the Civic Centre and had a day long thing. There was one woman who came form the Board of Studies to talk to us, and that was mostly stuff we already knew. Then we had these people from a place called Elevate Education - they were all pretty young, just Uni students themselves, which I think was supposed to help us relate to them. They were pretty good. They seemed really enthusiastic about what they were telling us, so that gave it an extra edge. We got stuff about time management, which is my worst problem. But I basically do everything they told us you can do anway, but its just, I make all the time tables for myself and I do the notes, but it doesn't seem to work.
But for year 12 I'm really hoping I can do it. I really want to try hard.
So after that this afternoon I had band :) Well, first I had to go to school band, which I enjoyed. I doesn't really matter that the music doesn't sound that good, but I just like the people in the band. They're all pretty fun, and we have a good time anyway.
Then after we [being Kieran and I] went to Macarthur band, but we were late leaving, and we went to pick Erin up aswell, so we got there pretty late. But when we got out of the car, they had already started, and all three of us realised what was happening, and wanted to get back in the car and drive far, far away. You see, it has come to the time of the year which I have now fondly titled "The Musician's Hell", welcome, my dear readers, to the dreaded Christmas Carol season. Oh yes, it has begun. Oh Come all Ye Faithful was resonating throughout the grounds as we approached the hall, and sullenly we joined in.
I haven't actually been in this band over a christmas yet, but they can at least play the carols so that is a bonus I suppose. But I generally have about 3 Christmas gigs with other bands, so it'll probably be double this year. Yipee. lol.
But I still loved every minute of band. Except for Aaron. My own personal Jonathan.
You see, in the Community Band, the clarinet section is plagued by the horrors of the sounds that eminate from the young and terrible Jonathan. I had never actually come across someone before who could make an entire section sound bad, but he pulls it off spectactularly. Erin and I praise the times he is not there, and the joyous "second half" at which he is not present, because he leaves in the break.
So at my lovely new band I thought, wow, I shall be free, but no. This was not the case, for here enters Aaron. Who, like Jonathan, has not quite mastered the concept of any dynamic below the range of ff-forte fortissimo. Its very painful. He can't actually hit a high B without screwing up the intonation. Its quite frustrating.
And both of these lovely *cough* young men, absolouely refuse to play any music that is not 1st. Therefore, they are playing mostly in the higher register, notes, which I have previously mentioned, they cannot quite reach without getting the sound of a cat being beaten.
So that does put a damper on things, because Aaron stayed for the whole time, even though he generally leaves in the break too. But there was hardly anyone left there after break, and no flute section, so I borrowed Murray's flute and took up the post. I haven't actually played flute in a band before, so it was very exciting. However I don't think I'm quite cut out for it. I get really nervous when I'm playing and people can hear me really well, so I start shaking in my nervousness, and that makes my lip quiver, so my notes get really shaky when I'm playing the flute in front of people, so it doesn't work very well. Then on top of that I was sight reading all the pieces and there was this lovely solo section for me in the Lion King piece. They have a really good arrangement of that though. I like it. But the flute I was playing didn't seem to want to play the note E, so that was interesting aswell. But all in all, I have had a really good week.
Then I have a band gig tomorrow morning so more music! :) So that will be awesome.
Oh, on another note, Kate has left for Japan this morning! How exciting. She's so lucky. I want to go back so much. But mum said I probably can after my HSC. She would be there already!
Sayonara Kate! Bon voyagé!
She gets to see my host sister Kanako and I don't :( But I gave her a letter to give to her so its all good.
Well its getting late now, considering I generally go to bed as early as possible usually around 9ish on a good day. I like my sleep, but I don't like sleeping in. Therefore, solution - go to bed early. It works for me.
Until next time...