Mmmm tasty!

Well this is a picture of a cucumber that we got out of our garden the other day. We have had this big thriving cucumber plant in our garden that we made in March but it has only been producing lots of cute little cucumbers the size of paperclips. We had just been waiting for them to get bigger but it was just taking forever! Finally , one morning I was just on the computer upstairs while my mom was outside with Spencer, gardening and such and my mom shouted up to me. "Siena, come here before I cut it off!!!!!!!" It sounded like she was scolding me for something but when she showed me what it was it turned out to be a big cucumber hanging from our plant! No wonder the other veggies weren't growing! The plant putting everything towards that cucumber. We didn't eat it at first, probably because we just loved looking at it. but eventually cut it and crunched on it. It was really good! We'll probably pull up our carrots soon. TTYL

Oh Noes!

Already?! A month of summer vacation just flew out the window before I could blink!OH DEAR! OH MY! OH NOES!!!! THIS CAN'T BE! Soon I'll be meeting my teachers at open house, and buying new suplies, and GOING TO SCHOOL. Only a month away! School starts even earlier this year; AUGUST 3RD! Oh well. I hope my best friend doesn't move before school starts... What a start to the new school year... saying goodbye to the ultimate BFF. Well Wish me a long rest of the summer :D

I'm a graduate!

YAY! I'm a graduate! Of... Music camp. Last week I attended Northern Arizona University's Curry Summer Music Camp and I had a blast! Forget that we weren't allowed to have soda, it was awesome. We drove up with one of my best friends in tow, Brittany Kaminsky who I shared a dorm with. As you may know I play the flute (and as for something you don't know) Brittany, however plays the bass clarinet. When we got up there we signed into our dorms, ate breakfast and had auditions so that they could rank us according to how well we played. I got nervous but I did it. That night we went over the rules and me and Britt met our suite mates, Katrina and Kiersten. Kiersten was a violin player and Katrina was cellist. Oddly they turned out to be Mormon just like me! what a coincidence! They were nice and we all became friends quickly. The next day we had breakfast (ByTheWay the food there was really good!) and found out what our ranks were. Brittany, Kiersten, and Katrina were all second chair, Brittany in Symphonic with me, and Katrina and Kiersten in Orchestra. And what was I? thirteenth chair. nice. OUT OF FOURTEEN! I really don't care except it makes me sound like I'm a really bad player but I'm not! I'm totally average. They treated me just like the first flute (well apart from me not having to play the scary solo in front of a billion people) Those audition songs were just really hard and I didn't practice much :p Anywho, since it was a Sunday (weekend) we got to hang out and bond with our awesome suite mates. at 2:30 we went to rehearsal ALL THE WAY ACROSS CAMPUS (idk why they make everything so spread out) for two hours and then we walked back to the dorms (we walked that route a thousand times a day I swear I should have a lot of leg muscles now!) later we ate dinner and went to our evening activity. At night we were all so tired we crashed!!!!Throughout the rest of the week we went to our classes, music theory (where we learn to write music more neatly), sectionals (for only woodwinds), musicianship (where we learned all about women composers throughout time and how music evolved), flute class (learning new techniques on flute), rehearsals (the whole 100 people band), and world music (self explanatory; music around the world). and then we had dinner and our evening activity. As you can imagine it was pretty tiring so after we all had showers everyone crashed. On Saturday we preformed our four songs, Lion king, Ashokan Farewell, Apollo Fanfare, and Phrygian Phantasy to our families. Everyone loved it and we enjoyed ourselves alot! I was sad to leave but I got emails from my suite mates and I was really happy to see my family again. What an adventure it was. What an experience! And what do you know? I'm a college graduate! :P - Siena