Isn't it funny how things can hit you in a single second? Hold that thought; I'll expand on that later. Right now, I gotta write about music camp before I forget it all. :)
REGIONAL MUSIC CAMP 2010:
was amazing. :)
Day 1:
4:30 a.m.
I woke up at around this time to finish all my last minute packing and to shower. It was a pretty bad mistake... because it was way too early. Oh well.
8:00 a.m.
Finally left the house and got to school. From there on, all chaos ensued. It was time to tag all the luggage and instruments, bring them outside and load them onto the truck. The loading process took a few hours (and was interrupted by a fire drill) and it made my arms hurt. (nts: weights!)
1:00 p.m.
Finished bumming around for a few hours and finishing things up before we left on the bus. Well actually, we left the school parking lot at about 1:30. Long delay. Bus ride was noisy... but we all got there. :)
FROM THEN ON (because I don't remember times.)
We (Joey and I) met our cabin-mates. They were a crazy bunch... and still are, lol. But that's okay, they're cool. Anyways, we unpacked, got a tour of the place, played some games, had dinner and a rehearsal and then crazy olympics. Our cabin's name this year was "Back of the Bus." And yes, I still remember the cheer, lol. Here, I shall write it down. :)
"Everywhere we go
People wanna know
Who we are
So we tell them
We are the Back of the Bus
Mighty mighty Back of the Bus
If you can't hear us
We'll try a little louder.
We are the Back of the Bus!"
ANYWAYS we ended up getting second in the crazy olympics. Not too bad, hmm? :)
Then curfew hit for the little ones and us seniors headed to the staff lounge. There was a piano there, so we messed around on it until midnight... This was where our idea for our later performance came. We all went back to our cabins then and fell asleep soon. (Unless you're me- then you were up for hours before finally falling asleep around 2:30-ish.)
Day 2 (this is gonna be a long post, isn't it?)
I'm gonna try and shorten this. Pretty much, I woke up at 4:00, had a freezing cold shower, had breakfast, had rehearsals, sectionals, lunch, master classes, rehearsal, free time (in which I practiced my butt off for a bet), dinner, cabin time, Shuffle Demons, bonfire.
So the bet was made by my master class teacher, Adam. He gave us this snare piece and told us that if we could sightread it right there right then, he'd give us $100. None of us could do it though, so he told me that if I could play it perfectly the next day, he'd give me $50.
Shuffle Demons were amazing- they're a wicked jazz group with a lot of energy. Moments I'll remember include "What do you want?" and "Cheese on bread." Hahaaaa. Afterwards, we headed to the Spectrum for a bonfire and some basketball. I got hit in the head... twice... lol. There was a lot of nostalgia in the air that night. I started remembering what grade 9 had been like, how simple it all was. How we've changed.
Curfew for the kids, staff lounge for us. We played some card games before heading to patrol... it was cold, haha. But it was also fun just hanging out with everyone.
Day 3
Woke up at 5:00 this time... routine was pretty much the same. Breakfast, rehearsal, sectionals, lunch, master classes, rehearsal, free time, dinner, cabin time, skit presentations, evening program. I tried to play the snare piece... But couldn't do it, haha. That's okay, at least I gave it a shot. Our skit was this paper-bag-6-slips-of-information thing. We all got a bag with 6 items- 2 props, 4 informations. Ours were as follows: Kesha (character), 50 seconds (time limit), horror (genre), sunset (setting), a bull hat and a little mermaid pin (props.) It was... one heck of an interesting skit. After that, us mentors performed our "four-chord song." It was pretty much a medley of songs based around four chords... (with one exception.) I'm hoping to get a video of this up soon. It was pretty epic, considering we only worked on it during the small amounts of free time we were given that day.
Evening program that night was a dance. By the end of it, it was reaaaaally tired... But it was fun. Dancing just sort of lets me forget all the stuff going on and I can let loose. I didn't want it to stop.
However, it did. That night, all of us mentors decided to patrol together (LOL you can't have "patrolling" without the "trolling"!) and it was FREEZING. We all ran back inside, haha. Then played a card game that Adam taught us till 12... I won with 82 points. :)
Since that night was freezing, I decided to sleep with Joey. We made a sort of... sleeping bag sandwich. It was a lot warmer- I could actually feel all of my fingers. :)
Day 4
Woke up at 6:00 (Ahh, I'm sleeping more. lol) and packed up everything pretty early. Then breakfast, cabin clean-up, BROOMING COLIN (already up on facebook somewhere!), final rehearsal and then the concert.
It's sad that, thinking back, this will be the last RMC that I'll attend as a student. There were a lot of good times... I don't want the bonds that we all have to unravel. If the time comes when that happens, will I have the strength to accept it gracefully? As I am right now, I doubt it.
Anyways, this was a plenty long post. I'll add it a bit about the whole "2 years going to waste" thing later on, in a different post.
ttyl. :)
P.S- The first thing I did when I got back from camp was take a really long hot bath. It was like HEAVENNN. :)
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