This Week's Events

Lately I have been going to something called "mini band camp" which is to help to Freshman and other High-schoolers get ready for marching band in the fall. Basically they teach you how to march and how to do the show and I've found out the hard way that it is a miserable program. Not that it matters because of course its mandatory to go to if you want to be in marching band next year. Luckily it only lasts three days and today was the last day. It's from 6:00pm to 9:00pm and not only is there only one five-minute break but they work you SUPER hard. It makes me wonder if they always make you work this hard at mini band camp because it isn't every year that the Millennium Band has the opportunity to go to D.C. Maybe our band director is just trying to make us the best of the best this particular year. Anyways, I almost considered quitting band but I love band so much that THAT didn't seem like a reasonable option.I'm glad I endured the last three hours of mini band camp tonight because now I can enjoy the rest of my summer. Of course though in the middle of July the REAL band camp is starting up and it lasts the WHOLE week. If mini band camp is only a fraction of what the real camp is I don't want to know what the camp in July's going to be like. Oh well... Well, I guess that's all for now but I'll let you know when something else happens. Have an awesome summer!

Happy Summer!

I just ended school last Thursday and already I know its going to be a busy summer! I really want to do a summer blog so I suppose I'll start with telling you about my first day of summer. On Friday after a lazy start Spencer, my mother, and I went swimming in our pool. (It was still cold! Can you believe it?) After that I went over to my friend Brittany's house for a sleepover and that night we had to go sell car wash tickets for the next morning. We even went to different stores to ask the cashiers if they wanted a ticket which was not my idea. Saturday, you guessed it! We woke up at 6:45 and headed off to go scrub cars. We did this to earn money for my future High School band so that we could go to Washington D.C. and play on the white house lawn. The car wash was so LONG! it was from 7:30 to 12:00 and we were washing cars practically non-stop. The rest of the day I think all I did was relax because I was so tired from washing cars. THEN on Sunday my mother and I went to a temple dedication and it was really boring. Still I liked the singing part at the end.

This is a picture of my temple recommend and handkercheif.

After that long time at church we then went to our friend Pearls house and we got to hold her great-grandaughter, Maddie. She was so precious! So today? Today we went to my eye doctor and picked out some new glasses which are much nicer then the ones I have now. Then we came home and made some pizza as well as an orange shake for lunch. We had planned on going to the library but instead I stayed home and threw away / organized my school work. So far I've been pretty busy and I plan on keeping up this blog so make sure to check in often for my latest doings.

Long time no write

Wow has it really been that long since I last wrote? Well its two months before school ends and I felt the urge to write. And has school really been as bad as I had expected? YES. If you seriously don't live as long when you stress so much I think I just lost 10 years. Oh well. Don't worry I just have had tons of papers and huge projects. Infact, I just finished a 5 page report on Teddy Roosevelt. Either way Schools almost over and I'm taking two days off . Why? Well, my dad's good friend's family is staying over and we're hoping to have some fun on thursday and Friday. Anyways I must go eat my Pizza before I die from my not eating it even though the smell is drifting through the air. So I'll probably write again in another 7 months.

NOOO!!!!!!!!!

School has begun! NOOOO! and to make it worse my bff moved so that make me sad. I guess Ill pull through though. (not that i really have a choice) Well i guess all is well besides that. :) I'll write more later. BYE

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