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My mouth has stopped hurting after getting my braces tightened and now I figured out what the problem was! I didnt have my lips stretched over my braces enough! Now my tone sounds fine again! I'm so happy!

so.... i was asked to play with this choir the day before the performance (which was yesterday) and so I got to practice yesterday and we played through the song once and then the choir director had all of these kids try out for the solo singing part..... I sat through all of that and then they decide not to play the song after all! So, I drove all the way home and had nothing to do for the rest of the afternoon. SO ANNOYING!!!!

The new version of smartmusic came out yesterday! I'm so happy. Its too late to play my flute and piccolo now (especially the piccolo) so now I feel like my band director, sitting at the computer listening to band music. I have so much music to practice now! especially on oboe because I really need to practice even though I dont have any good reeds left... I have a decent one that I'm saving for solo and ensemble though. Thats comming up next week. THANK GOD! My teacher has had me play my solo for like 2 months straight now. I am so sick of it that I keep messing up because I dont pay attention to what I am doing. I even have it memorized!! This reminds me, I need to meet with the pianist again before solo and ensemble..... I should call her tomorrow and schedule something.... I have lots of stuff to do at solo and ensemble:

flute solo
oboe solo
flute/ clarinet duet
flute choir

that means 4 medals for me this year (that is, if I do well on everything...)

I have the Concert on the Green on sunday. Its for all of the small ensembles. I am the only flute in wind ensemble playing since nobody else from wind ensmemble could make it. I have to play with the symphonic band flutes. They suck. We're playing these really easy peices and they keep messing up! Its JUST quarter notes and eighth notes! How can you mess that up? I'm playing picc. and alto flute for the songs (alto on one and picc. on the other).

On Thursday I have the regular band concert. I play throughout the whole concert. I play oboe with concert and symphonic, flute with wind ensemble, and marching bass drum with concert (we're doing a percussion peice called sundance)
the bass drum hurts my back but its fun to play since its different from playing woodwinds all the time like I do.

I just got back from band camp. I'm so exhausted. I was so annoyed because my flutes don't even know how to play all of the notes in the music and 2 of them want to play piccolo. I am the only one on picc. right now and hopefully the only one because stupid R(i'm not putting the full name... just first initials) needs to get a life and stop asking me if she can play piccolo. She sucks. She can't even make it into Wind Ensemble. It seems like anyone can get into wind ensemble if the guidance office feels like putting them in there instead of symphonic were they need to be. 2 flutes in my section are in wind ensemble becuse guidance put them there. 1 of them didnt even try out. No offense to them but they suck. They think they're good cuz they're in WE but they really suck. Anyway, back to band camp... R thinks shes so much better than everyone at everything because shes had 5 years in marching band. Every time I tell her she's in the wrong place, she argues with me even though we both know that I'm right. Once, I just snapped at her and told her to "JUST LISTEN TO ME!!" and she got really pissy with me. At least she got in the line (you could definaltly tell that she was in the wrong place). I also asked K to be quiet. I even asked her nicely by saying " Sorry K___ but I need you to be quiet. The drum majors asked me to make sure all of you are quiet" and she just kept talking to people as if she didn't even hear me (which I know she did because she turned and was listening to me). I also told another K (I have the people in my section that have names that start with K) to be at set and she just said "dont tell me to be at set" even though we obviously had to be at set. I hope they were being like this because they wanted to go home because I really can't deal with people being like this all year. I also have an E who doesn't listen when we are in block. We learned how to march in block but she doens't do any of it when we're on the feild. I think I am just going to have the woodwind captain take over my section for a day and just teach E proper marching technique. That way I definately know that she knows how to march. I can't exactly teach her how to march when we are in the middle of sets because we aren't allowed to talk then and we have to stay on our spots unless someone in our section has a question and even at that, we have to answer quickly. I tell my section good job and I try to be nice so I have no clue why they're so rude to me at times. Like I said, I hope this was just because we were at band camp....

I'm sooo happy! I got to practice for like 5 hours straight yesterday! I have orchestra auditions tomorrow!! I'm nervous but also excited!! I need to work on my oboe though. I am having trouble with the chair test that I have to take on tuesday. The test is easy on flute but hard on oboe. I will definately get 1st chair for flute in Wind Ensemble, but I hope I get 1st in symphonic against Bailee. I think I will but I don't know if she's been practicing or not. I only practiced oboe for like 30 mins. because I wanted to practice for my audition today. Gotta practice this morning so I can be sure everything will go smooth for today.

I got a clarinet! I'm getting this one guy that I like who is the principal chair in wind ensemble (an amazing clarinetist) to teach me! I'm so happy!