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DING DONG DING DONG! My alarm went off. I look up and slam my fist against the snooze button to make it shut up. My room is warm as the heater begins to turn on agian and it is dark. I feel my way to my lamp and turn it on. As I flip the switch I fall face first on the floor and stumble to get up. I think to myself as I get ready to leave, I hope Gab will not show up. When I leave my room my father begins to nag at me about all the crap I did not do for him, so on and so forth. The next thing I know I can't find my ginger root tea. I ask him where is it and you know what he does? He says it is in the fridge: it is not there. I tell him to prove that it is there and he pulls out the ginger root used to make the tea. "What the frack?" He's so stupid, he threw away the part that I needed and kept the waste! Not a good way to start my morning.
I arrive at Cabot Junior High South to the All-Region try-outs. I ran into April and left my stuff with her so I can go get my try-out card. When I request for my card he gave it to me and decided it would be really funny if he told me that I was going to be first, seeing how my card was first in the stack in alphabetical order. "Hey, you're the first one," he said to me. "You gotta be fracking me. That's I lie. Oh crap, I might have an anxiety attack," I started freaking out. He laughed as he replied, "Just kidding, you're only the first in the stack." I looked at the card that he just handed me. The time said 10:05. I feel stupid.
Its now 8:00 and I have two more hours to wait. Seeing how I have nothing to do I hung out with friends that I don't get to see every day. I hung out with all my south friends and a few Searcy kids, but not the Conway kids (they are mean.) Apparently they all think that my bag is magical because I fit four juceboxes, two bags of chips, lemon juce, my band binder, a bottle of tea, ten cough drops, a bag of cotton candy, an eco-friendly bottle of hair spray, my magical teasing brush, my cell phone, and my DS and DS accessories. MAGIC.
8:30 there's a fairly large mob of kids by the try-out room swarming around a girl with a folder. This folder contains the try-out materials. When the swarm finially calmed down I coppied down the music. Our scales were G minor, D flat Major, and F Major. Easy enough. It made it better that when it came to the book materials they did not choose the song I hated most: the waltz.
At 9:24 Jenny called me and said that she was heading to the warm-up/practice room for a bit before she tried out. I then took out my euphonium and went to meet up with her with Jessica, Anya, and Josh. (I don't like going places by myself.) After going through a run through of the songs and scales I went to the try-out room to wait and hear what the sight reading was. As soon as I heard some one play it, I was estatic to know what it was. They choose the same thing as they did last year out of the All-Region book! I can't believe it. That just made my day so much easier. I told a few Cabot people and we totally kicked butt. Well so I hoped.
10:07 it was finally my turn to try out. That was when I got nervous, but as soon as I went in the room and saw that Eric was ther I calmed down. I played my scales, messed up on G minor on one note. Then I began to play out of the book. The first peace was the Lullaby. I was so into the music that I played over. As soon as I realized this careless mistake I stopped. (It was only half a measure over.) Then I played the last two peaces with only one mistake in each of them. I played practically perfectly through the sight reading. After this I knew I was going to get second band... or so I thought.
A friend told me that they think I did superior, superior, good. I had hours to kill just waiting for them to post. The last time was at eleven-ish. I hung out with everyone just having casual conversations with everyone to kill the time. Unlike choir try-outs, I was not looking for a cute boy to flirt with: this is a room of band geeks. I followed Jessica, then Andrew, then Penguin, etc. At some point of the day I got so bored I slept on a friend. I had a rude awakening when I felt a 150 pound boney, asian kid sitting on me and crushing my lungs. PAIN. I tried to push him off, but every time I'd budge him his bones would stick another pressure point. After HJ got out of the try-out room Andrew finially got off of me. I fleed to the choir room for safety. It was not the smartest of ideas seeing how all the horny kids who wanted to PDA went there. I just wanted to play the piano. The entire time I was there I did not even get to do a full song.
We were kicked out of the Choir room just as soon as I was about to play. When I went back to the cafateria and noticed they have posted a few placements. Euphonium was one of them. Conner came up to me and told me that I made first chair. "You're lieing to me. Proove it!" I said. He shouted,"Okay," and dragged me through the mob of people to show me that I mad first. "See, Ellen Adkins: first chair," he said. I guess he wasn't lieing. I can not believe that I mad first. As soon as I doubble checked to see my name at the top of the list I squeeled at the top of my lungs, you could hear it over everyone. I jumped with joy and squeezed all of my friends. I was so happy, I could not contain myself.
It was a big slap in the face when I got first chair. Still I thought that I would only get second band then later I found that I was first band first chair. I felt stupid. To this very moment I still do not believe that I made first chair. I went home and slept for the rest of the evening. I'm so happy I did it.
 AudioHeartCassette · Sun Dec 07, 2008 @ 07:57pm · 1 Comments |
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