Go Wind Ensemble!

I would like to dedicate this blog to my fellow bandees. Not those losers who quit after first semester, but the ones who are in it to the end. Also, a special shout out to the elitists (wind ensemble), who are obviously the best. And, to prove our special talent, we are going to district contest on Friday. What is this band contest? Well I don't really know. All I know is that we get to skip half of the school day on Friday, get on a bus for about 45 minutes, arrive at a random school, play three prepared pieces, do a sight-reading piece, get scores, and come home. On each of the pieces of music we play, the judges can give us a score ranging from one to five; one being the best and five being the worst.  If your score comes to average one, that means you move on to state contest. Obviously, the contest seems a bit confusing, because most people think that being state champions mea

ns we "beat" all other bands.  But for band contest, multiple bands can get ones and numerous bands can be state champions at the same time.  If you did not know, we are currently state champions because we received all ones at state last year. You would think this kind of award would take a lot of talent, effort, and time,  but sadly, very few members of our band practice outside of the class period.  I mean I still cannot play some parts of the songs that we are playing on Friday (shhhh). Nevertheless, somehow we end up playing well and sounding pretty good. So, if you are looking for some entertainment on Friday, come to our state contest! It's the cool thing to do on Friday nights...we play at 4:35. Be there. Oh and band party at my house if we get ones and go to states! Oh one more.... it's a complaint....we are state champions and get a congrats on the sign board (see picture)... football goes to states and doesn't win and gets multiple assemblies and the whole school misses a day of school. Granted they may have worked very hard, but it's not our fault we are naturally awesome at band. Just saying...

Speechless...Literally

For the past 3 days, I have had little to no voice. And let me tell you, it is not fun. I have had many struggles with this no voice thing.  First, in economics class, I tried to ask Mr. Serluco when the test was.  However, it did not work out so well because the class was loud and it took a good couple of minutes plus many hand gestures to get my point across.  And then, in second period commons, my friends thought it would be funny to scream out inappropriate comments and lies about me, which I could then not defend myself because no one could hear me.  And, in 6B commons, they established that it sounded like I was about to start crying whenever I spoke. Also, yesterday it was my group's turn to run class and I could not speak very well.  Plus, when Chase could not stop laughing long enough to read his letter, I offered to read it for him, forgetting about my lack of voice.  Then, today, when I called my mom on the phone, she could not hear me.  She kept saying "what? Jillian are you there? I can't hear you. What do you need?" I tried to muster a sound  to get my point across but I did not succeed so I hung up in frustration.  Additionally, yesterday was the first practice of lacrosse and we had a new assistant coach.  He immediately gave me the nickname of Vito Corleone from The Godfather because of my voice. And, whenever I attempted to speak he would mock me. I don't like him. But that's beside the point.  The point is, having no voice is rough. I hope I get it back soon.