This weekend was great fun, but super busy. On Friday night we had a band concert. I thought it went pretty well. I had to play a couple solos. I messed up in one of them so I was not totally content with my performance, but overall the band did a good job. After the band concert I watched the last part of Rent with my roommate. I had never seen Rent before and I really enjoyed it. I liked the message of accepting everyone for who they are. We then went and hung out with some friends. We watched part of How to Train Your Dragon and then sat around and talked for a while. I really like being able to just hang out with my friends!
Saturday I slept in since I was up late the night before. I had quintet practice with the brass quintet that I am in. There are two trumpets, a trombone, a tuba, and a horn. Its an interesting experience being in a brass quintet. I had only ever been in woodwind quintets prior to this year. Brass quintets have a different style of playing than woodwind quintets do. I feel like I am never playing loud enough in the brass quintet. I stuck out if I played too loud in the woodwind quintet, so this is new! My family came after that and took me out to dinner. We ate at Applebees. Then we came back to Wartburg and my parents went to the band concert. For me, the Saturday night concert went better than the Friday night one. I nailed all of my solos, which made me happy. It will be interesting now in band since my band does not participate in Christmas with Wartburg. We will be learning some new music, but we won't be playing it in a concert until after Christmas break. After the concert there was a Halloween party. I went as a basket of laundry. It was a good time. There was a scavenger hunt that had everyone running all over the FAC. I discovered that running with a laundry basket around your waist is rather difficult!
Today my quintet played in the church service here on campus. I think it went pretty well. We had not practiced the pieces very much, but I was not too nervous about it. The pieces were not very difficult and we have some excellent musicians in our group. I went to Laura Mackey and Kyle Fleming's junior recital today. Laura plays the trombone and Kyle sings. I really enjoyed the last piece they performed. It was the only one they did together and they acted it out really well. It was really funny! I had a follow up session with my Psych of the Exceptional Child class today as well. We talked about how our field experience went and turned in our final papers.
This weekend was a lot of fun, but now I have to finish up my homework. I really enjoy weekends and wish that they didn't end so quickly!
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