Last Stretch of Junior Year Day 1

I am just tired right now.  I am sitting on my desk, with work out, and two browsers open for different e-mail accounts.  I also forgot that I had an orchestra concert after "waking up" just now.

The concert was not the best our school has ever had, and I'm sure other people agree with me.  Of course, it's always nice being able to see elementary school students come and try to play what they have learned after those few months of training.   And really...just having any kind of music program in elementary school really does help in giving slow people the opportunity to have a "head start." 

Overall, I gave most groups an excellent as their CMEA rating.  I have the paper with my comments somewhere in that red folder I brought to the concert.  Basically excellent means between 80-89 out of 100.  I did take points off for rudeness.  A lot of kids don't have the patience to sit through a concert with their mouth shut...or at least closed while another group is playing a piece.  And that included musicians from my group as well, High School Intermediate Orchestra.

But at least we had a little fun with ourselves.  We managed to play very badly on purpose for the first few measures of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3.  And then we had a half-spirited decree: "April Fools!"  And then we played it for real.  Either way, it was interesting, but the audience didn't really deem it all that funny since we didn't say "April Fools" together.

Aside from the concert, I also had this little assignment for journalism for who I would interview if I could.  I was thinking, I'll choose Mr. T.  After all, I've watched "The A-Team" for quite a while now.  I would really like to hear him say "I pity the fool!" in person though.  My friends (who are not in journalism) also gave interesting answers, including people Bill Gates. 

Lastly, I'd like to quickly mention Spanish class, since we are now learning about the conditional tense.  English: I would like to buy a hamburger.  Español: Me gustaría comprar una hamburguesa. So yeah.  I would like to go to bed, but I would have to finish my work first.


I'll have a title for each post in this series starting tomorrow, 42 day.