Today was a fantastic day! Not only did I figure out how to French braid (on myself, no less!), I was playing saxophone and I didn't take a breather until halfway through the sixteenth measure of Blue Bells of Scotland! I was so proud. --Time for a back story. It all starts with piano. I wanted to play drums when I got to middle school, so as a kindergarten kiddie, I started piano. I played piano until the summer between fourth-to-fifth grade. So, what is that--five years? Then once I got to middle school, I decided I wanted to play saxophone instead. So here's where the saxophone starts...
...I started saxophone in fifth grade, but then quit because I really didn't like the middle school's band set up (there were practice sheets, field trips, too much!). Then in the summer of seventh-to-eighth grade, I started playing piano again. I had to do something over the summer, those were my dad's rules. But since it was summer, I never ever practiced, obviously. I even moved our keyboard to my room to motivate myself, but I'm the laziest person on earth, so of course I didn't!
So I quit piano (I'm a quitter, I know). Then a week or two before eighth grade, I started saxophone again and my instructor was/is a senior boy (who is... ahem. Good looking to say the least (gosh, hope he doesn't see this!)). Since school started, I've had homework literally everyday and naturally, I just practiced saxophone afterwards because I thought of it like homework. This year, I've learned so much. Since fifth grade, I've forgotten everything about saxophone. I couldn't even remember what keys to press for G. G. Really.**
Alas, I still don't practice much but I practice enough to know the songs, and my sax-instructor's cool with it. We've made deals. I just mastered In Dreams from Lord of The Rings --and just in time, too! We're reading the Hobbit in school now! More on that later. But, yeah. I mastered that, and the Star Wars theme, and the theme song to The Pirates of The Caribbean (the first one!). That's my favorite movie, if you're writing a book. Right now I'm on The Imperial March (from Star Wars, for all our non-everyday-knowledge-knowers out there!), and the Raider's March from Indiana Jones, I guess. I've downloaded that song on my iPod, for some reason I can not get it engraved in my head!
Alright, enough about the gal-darn saxophone, already!
Okay, now onto other matters (this is getting kind of long...) This is where I complain about whatever we're reading in class! I wouldn't normally complain about things that much, but sometimes you just have those days, you know? You know. So we're reading the Hobbit, right? Now, usually I would love to read these types of books, but the chapters are twenty seven pages long! That's intimidating! And we have to do a packet about it! Oi! I'm already reading an amazing book, I want to finish that first, please!
And, onto my schedule (trying to keep the sections short now, for anyone that could possibly still be reading). There are state-wide tests happening tomorrow, and boy, I just can't wait! No, I'm kidding. I hate these things. There are stupid strategies that we're supposed to do***, but I think it's just a time waster. I read the story and answer the questions in order, I think I can remember a story I read two seconds ago!
*Note: This will not be listed under book reviews. It will be under 'Personal Updates'.
**If you play saxophone, you'll know how easy the note G is. It's like, the first thing you learn.
***The strategies, if anyone is wondering...
- Read the questions first and then go back and skim the story to do number two.
- Underline the things you think answer the questions.
- Write a note next to the answer you think is right.
- Go back and actually read the story.
- Scream because you just wasted like, ten minutes.
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