Its Sunday again!! And that means another day of sitting in pit rehearsals watching everyone else playing in the sun and eating ice cream on the waterfront! Fun times! Pirates is going a lot better, its still flipping hard but it seems to be coming together more. I found out Im definitely playing in West Side Story next session (which starts in a week argh!) so Ive got the music for that to get a head start on it! Have to play piccolo, flute, alto saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet for it so it should be interesting to say the least! Ive always avoided playing the piccolo what with it being the root of all evil (seriously I have found no faster way to get a migraine than to be the poor bastard flautist who gets to sit next to the piccolo in an orchestra!) So anyone who has any tips on how to learn to play the piccolo in the next 3 weeks Ill love you forever. And no just because its just a small flute does not mean I can automatically play it!
Had another day off on Thursday, we were vaguely planning to head for Montreal but as it turns out we were all exhausted and it was 100 degrees so we sacked off that idea and went to a waterfall area in town called Buttermilk Falls instead, where all 20 odd people on the day off alternated between swimming in the lake and lying in the sun on some rocks. It was amazing and such a beautiful place! (This is where I promise photos, I swear Im trying to get round to it I just dont get the computer very often and its time consuming!) Id still give a rather large sum of money for a lie in though, even on your day off the kids wake you coz you're still in the bunk with them, Im considering sleeping in my shack next week! That or get a hotel room, although Vermont is being talked about so we'll see what happens! Started and ended the day off at the Cellar which is the bar down the road everyone goes to, quite small but ok, plays Glee on occasion which is slightly awesome! Have been driving back from there a couple of times, when people have had too much to drink, and have driven the camp van a couple of times so should have had plently of practice for the Pacific Coast Highway in September!! (WOOOOOO Lorna Wilson if you're reading this, email me dammit I miss you!!)
Next week is the last week for these kids, I cant believe its nearly the end of these kids' session already! Just 2 more and Im done, scary times! Next week is apparently a bit of a nightmare, no real schedule just activities thrown around rehearsals then watching 2 shows every evening, culminating in Parents Weekend where everyones parents come (odd that!) and all departments put on shows etc and then the kids head home! We have a night of relative quiet (some kids stay for 2 sessions but not many) then it all starts again on Monday! So if you dont hear from me for a week thats why!! Well that or Ive fallen into a coma from lack of sleep!
Gotta run, its teatime! Then got a chamber music night which we're playing in as a rehearsal for next week, several boring jazz pieces in which I pretend to be a trumpet and play about 4 notes on the clarinet and then Bohemian Rhapsody on clarinet, Wouldn't It Be Nice by the Beach Boys and Butterflies and Hurricanes by Muse on the flute (much better than it sounds I promise!) Wish me luck :)
P.s......WOOP go Spain!!!!!!! :D
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