I had a HILARIOUS dream last night. Well, right now we are playing these American songs for orchestra, and we are also in Quartets. In my dream, Hannah's quartet played, even though it was really only a duet: Hannah as a 2nd violin, and this random girl as the 1st and a random boy as a cellist. The boy never played. Anyway, they started playing "America the Beautiful" and I was like, "Wow! My quartet sounds nothing like THAT! That's amazing!" Hannah had this awesome harmony, and then she and the 1st violin girl started singing the song!!! It was really choral sounding, and Hannah sang a lower part and the girl sang the higher part. I remember looking up at Mrs. Doud, our conductor, who started crying because it was so beautiful sounding. It was all rather comical once I woke up.
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Well, last night was the Homecoming football game! Not only that, but it was the assembly too, and we were in the dance! It was really fun. The first song we were in was called Bangarang, and we all wore black hoodies and waved our hands in circles as we ran around the middle basketball line thing, and then we went on the ground and one boy did crazy handstand-ness. Then we all ran off and the next song, Love Shack, started playing. We weren't in that one, so we quickly changed into our outfits (white shirt + black shorts) for Gangnam style. That actually went better than I thought, because usually we had trouble remembering the moves, but everything went pretty well! Our final song was "Twist and Shout" and we re-did the scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off at the parade. We had one guy who looks sort of like him be Ferris Bueller (His outfit was perfect!!) and we all danced around him with American flags, and some people had instruments (like Lydia with her accordian!) and we were all jammin. It was cool.
The football game went well! We didn't win, but it was pretty close until the 4th quarter when Squalicum got a touchdown. (Wow, that's the most I've ever talked about football like that. Weird.) It was fun, but it started to get windy and rainy-misty.
...Which leads us to today. We had an easy workout of 4x800s tempo, which is slow for that distance--a tempo is a pace you could hold for 50 minutes continuously. Still, it didn't help that the rain and wind came. Finally, too-- we haven't had ONE SINGLE PRACTICE IN THE RAIN. Until today, that is. And our season's almost over!
We're pressing apples right now. Well, not RIGHT now, Hannah's making mac and cheese and here I am on the computer, but we did before and we're just taking a break.
Later, world.
