Sunset Road

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Well, since I last wrote, quite a lot has happened. I have had many concerts, many interviews, and lots of other stuff.

First off - a couple of weeks ago I had an interview with the principal, Mr. Welsh, at Oxley College. It was scary. But it went well I think. We talked for ages. And the Mr. Welsh took us on a tour of the school. And I won’t bore you with all the details but it all looks really nice, I met quite a few teachers, and it’s all rather exciting.

And then last Monday I had to go for an interview with the deputy at Oxley to talk about subjects. The deputy, Mr. Armstrong is really nice and friendly. I’m going to do English (obviously, as it’s compulsory), Mathematics, Food Tech, Biology, Beginner’s French and Music 2 + extension. And it’s really quite funny - after discussing what subjects I’ll be taking, Mr. Armstrong told me how many people would be in all my classes. Ok, get this - in music there will be…2 of us!!! And in Food Tech…7 of us! And French beginners…4 of us!!! And then obviously heaps more in maths, english and bio. But yeah, pretty small classes otherwise, which is probably a good thing.

So anyway, straight after my interview with the deputy I had to go to an essay writing class at the school which Mum had booked me into. Hehe, it was pretty funny, when I walked into the classroom I realised who the teacher was! It was a guy who’s daughter is in orchestra with me, and his daughter is also in my string quartet group! So it was pretty funny walking in and finding out that he would be the teacher. But it was pretty cool having him as a teacher because well…it made it less scary I guess. And I found out during the essay writing class that he actually marks hsc exam papers so he really knows what he’s going on about as far as essay writing goes. So yeah, it was good. Learned lots. And have to go back to another essay writing class tomorrow because it’s three sessions all up.

I’m so excited - I got a ticket to go see the ACO play next Monday!!! And. Genevieve Lacey will be performing with them as a guest artist!!! So it will be amazing to see Lacey play. So I am looking forward to it heaps. Will be awesomely awesome.

I’ve started up music theory lessons again this term which is awesome. I’m doing 6th grade now! It’s actually got a lot of awesome stuff in it. But the only sad thing is that I have to have the theory lessons on a Friday afternoon straight after my cello lesson, and I got straight from my theory lesson to orchestra. And that all means I don’t get to talk to my awesome friend Tiffany in my break that I used to have. So I miss that heaps…but oh well. At least this Friday I don’t have to go to theory because my teacher will be away. So I’ll get to talk to Tiff! Woo!

Oh, and do you know what else is really exciting? Our internet isn’t shaped anymore! For the last NINE DAYS our internet has been shaped. Can you believe it? NINE WHOLE DAYS! So that basically = torture. You click on a website. And wait. Wait. Wait. Do some more waiting. And then maybe wait some more. And then the page finally loads! So yeah, being shaped sucks. Oh, did I mention it involves waiting?

Guess what? I have Windows Vista installed on my computer, as of yesterday! It’s cool. After much begging of Dad, he finally decided to install it. We had a lot of problems though because my stupid cd drive wouldn’t read the cd to install Vista. But we worked it out somehow. But since it’s been installed I’ve had to spend a lot of time organising all my junk that I have on the computer into various folders. And I’ve had to reinstall quite a lot of stuff which is rather aggravating.

I had to go to Wollongong yesterday morning for a concert. It was at the Wollongong Conservatorium’s Saturday at the Con. Because I won a scholarship I had to perform at this concert. I guess I played ok. But not that great. It could’ve been a lot better. However I played a “work in progress” a.k.a. something for my AmusA cello exam which I intend to do in about 9 months time. I played Serenade by David Popper. So yeah, it could’ve been heaps better. But hey, it was a Saturday at the Con…fairly low stress, laid back sort of thing. Then we left straight away and I drove home from Wollongong - first time I’ve ever driven home from W’Gong.

Had Youth Group last night and boy was it good! Why? Because my one of my bestest buddies, Beth came!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Yes, I did intentionally write ‘bestest’. Just because I wanted to, even though it’s not a proper word. ) I haven’t seen her in sooooo long. I like never, ever get to see her anymore which is so sad. Really. So I enjoyed last night so much because I actually got to talk to her face to face, rather than just through emails, of which we send like 3 a week to each other hehe. We went to the Glow Worm Glen in Bundanoon. We did about a 2km return walk to the Glow Worms and back.

Ooh, we got our orchestra itinery for our tour to Spain next year! It looks soooo exciting. It’d had better all go ahead. It’ll be so exciting. I’m excited. An orchestra tour for 16 days!!! In Spain!!! It doesn’t get much better than that hehe.

And I really couldn’t be bothered writing anymore, even though I could write so much more…Need a break from all this typing. And it will give you a break from my writing too.

‘Tis late…and I’m tired…

‘Night people.

P.S. Now I have to think of a title for this blog entry. And do you know what? I absolutely hate thinking of titles for my blog entries. I can never think of anything. And I’ll probably sit here for the next 3 mins thinking of something. How sad.

Hello again. Actually, I doubt anyone reads this blog so that would theoretically mean that I am saying hello to no one. How sad.

Anyway, life…I spent all yesterday in Wollongong. I auditioned for the Wollongong Conservatorium String Scholarship. I was all completely relaxed when I arrived, unpacked, had a warm up etc. Then the moment I walked in to the audition room and sat down, nerves came rushing upon me. Why? I don’t know. I wasn’t stressed or worried about it or anything, at least I don’t think so. And I was just playing for two really nice old people. So why did I get nervous? So jolly annoying. So basically I played really feral because I was so damn nervous. I played the same pieces that I played for an audition for a school scholarship last month. And I played sooo much better at the school audition. So I’m a bit annoyed at myself for letting my nerves getting the better of me. But I’m not that worried about the scholarship. If I don’t get a scholarship (of which I am 99.9% sure I won’t get), I don’t really mind at all. I’m just annoyed because I know I could’ve played so much better.

But, speaking of scholarships…I received a letter  in the mail yesterday from Oxley College where I did the school audition for. They. Have. Given. Me. A. Full. 100%. Scholarship. For. Year 11 and 12!!!!! Can you believe it? No, neither can I. I think I am still in shock that they have actually accepted me and have given me a full scholarship because a lot of the time they only give out part scholarships. So it’s quite exciting but extremely scary at the same time as well. In the past it’s always been “I might be going to school”. Now it’s pretty much I’m definitely going to school. So yeah, quite a scary thought. But awesomely awesome at the same time. (Yes, there I go again using the words “awesomely awesome”.)

Anyway, back to the subject of yesterday. So played at scholarship at the conservatorium. Then the brother, Jeremy had a bassoon lesson because he has his AmusA exam on Saturday. Whilst that was going on, one of my awesomely awesome friends, Tiffany who went for the string scholarship as well, hung around and we talked. Then we all went to her Dad’s Chinese restaurant for lunch. Was lots of fun, but very naughty of Tiffany and her parents because they hardly charged us anything at all for the lunch. Then Tiff invited us back to her place for the arvo because we had a few hours to kill before having to go back to the conservatorium for Jeremy to have a rehearsal with his pianist for his bassoon exam on Saturday. So back at Tiffany’s place we watched anime all afternoon. Quite funny because there’s this anime called “Nodame Cantabile”. It is seriously cool because it’s all about a music conservatorium in Japan. And basically, to sum it all up, there’s a guy who’s doing a degree at this conservatorium, and he wants to be a conductor. And yeah. It’s really quite funny.

And yeah. Why did we not live in Wollongong? Seriously. Why? We spend half our life down there, we spend so much time traveling to and from Wollongong…so much easier if we lived there. However we don’t…and there’s not much we can do about it, so I really should stop complaining.

So yeah, that’s basically what happened yesterday. The rest of the week was pretty boring and didn’t do much.