[written on Oct. 20th, 2011] about....life. :P :)

Hello All! (wrote this on Oct. 20th, 2011)

Guess what? Wait...nevermind, not yet.

So on the 15th of October, we had our 1st marching band tournament. It was @ Covina. A two hour drive away.

Here was the schedule for that Saturday, Oct. 15th 2011:

8:30AM-2PM -> Band Practice

[1:30PM-2PM] ->Pack up equipment and instruments into trucks. For the pit/front ensemble, it took way longer than just 30 minutes. :P lol. So I probably didn't leave until...3 o'clock PM.

4PM -> CALL time!

4:15PM -> Departure in our spiffy Charter buses with leg room! Oh yeah! We left acutally more around 4:30 or 4:45 (ish) PM.

6:30 (ish)PM -> Arrive @ school (Charter Oaks, I think...)

8:38PM -> Performance

(I think it went well...we won 1st in our division, but not over all.) :P :]

10:30PM -> Leave/head home

12:30AM -> Arrive home @ PHS

We arrived more like...around...11:50PM, but the truck with our instruments didn't arrive until a little after midnight.THe pit had to unload everything.

Since my dad was helping unload the things on the uniform trailer with the rest of the "Crew", I waited for him to finish, although I was already done. All the...well, most of the band kids had left by then, and the music director was locking up the band/music rooms.

My dad and I left around 1AM or so. I got to bed around 2:30AM. Fun... :P XD LOL.

Anyways!

I stabbed myself (on October 16th, 2011) in the kitchen my accident. ...Yeah. :P -.-

I was making myself a sandwich (tuna fish) and the knife I had used to cut the cheese (and the sandwich in 1/2) slipped out of my right hand...well, no. It was about to slip out of my right hand. I stuck my left hand out to catch it, and stabbed my ring finger (4th finger) on my left hand.

(Yeah, it hurt. And still does....)

It didn't hit anything major I think, but it went pretty deep...I might have just "poked" the tendon. It was bleeding like crazy.

I haven't been able to play piano and violin since then (today's the 20th of Oct.)

Oh! and I've also gotten so many bruises from band..my instrument (the synthesizer, aka. synth). I "shanked" my leg on the 15th @ the band tournament...through my uniform actually...now there's this huge red mark on my leg and a big ole bruise. XP At least it didn't bleed. :P

Okay, gtg homies!

WTYL (Write to ya laterz!) ^-^ *-* :D

Love ya like a love song.

Rachel Rae!

Scripps Invitational 2010

There's (from left to right) Garett, James and I in last year's (2010-2011) show at Scripps. Go Emerald Brigade!

Love ya like a love song.
Rachel Rae!

Baaaaand Caaaaamp...?!?!?!?!?!!!!

Ahhh!

So band camp started....this Monday, the 15th of August of 2011 and it's so HOT outside! o_O It's crazy! At least at the night time practices it isn't as hot. I got a serious sock tan on one leg. O_O And not the other. -.- haha! Weird! On that same leg, I also go sunburned. Meh...not too bad and I'm glad my face didn't get sunburned.

Everyone in my section (Percussion) got "missions" on the back of their name tags. Mine is to speak in a British accent for a day....And I've got until Monday the 22nd to complete it. I don't think I will, because I have no idea how to do an accent at all!  The missions are supposed to be secret and I think only Percussion is doing it, so everyone else in Marching Band will think that we are super weird. LOL! :D teehee!

It is said to be hotter through out the week and then get cooler on Saturday, when we don't have practice. Thank goodness for that, but I think that it would've been nice if this week was cooler than it has been. Haha.

Yaaaaaaay for us.

Love ya like a love song.
Rachel Rae!

P.S. Go Emerald Brigade!!!!!! XD