don honny

BREAAAAAAK.

halleluiah.

got home last wednesday afternoon. brenda and stephanie ambushed me as soon as i pulled in the driveway! it was so funny - they made signs. hung out with them plus jessica at mcdonald's for like, an HOUR while brittany was making chicken nuggets. (aka britteniggets). then i went to jessica's for the routine dinner - steaks, mashed potatoes, corn, and crescent rolls. yum!
thursday, my cousin graduated from ohio technical institute. had to drive into downtown cle. i didn't realize how much i missed that city! we made it there in 12 minutes... which says something about the way my uncle was driving. we went to olive garden to celebrate. later that night i went to the high school band concert with jessica. let's just say that i'm used to listening to a collegiate symphonic band....
friday, i actually got to sleep in! holy cow! didn't really do much... just relaxed and watched t.v. for the first time in like, two weeks. did i mention that finals week was complete HELL?? i had four, yes, four finals, on tuesday. granted, three of them only lasted 15 minutes, but still. monday was our piano final which i kind of screwed up on, but managed a B+ overall. then tuesday was my string methods final, playing stringed bass. got an A in that class. then i had to run upstairs to dr. k for my skills proficiency exam... easy peasy... got an A-. thennnnn i had to run back downstairs and warm up for my trumpet jury. it went great! i was asked to play the F and E flat scales, which are two of the easier ones. my solo went really well also. i only missed one or two notes, and i stayed relatively in tune. after i was done there, i met up with dr. w and S., and we went shopping for fishing club stuff. it was really fun to hang out with them outside school. we bought about $300 worth of fishing club gear, using up our funds for this semester for student senate. then we ate lunch at a mexican restaurant. we headed back to school and i took my students with special needs final at 4. i thought it was pretty easy, actually. everyone was making it out to be some behemoth, but it wasn't bad. once i finished that test i was FINALLY done for the day, but i spent 6 hours in the damn library studying for my music history final the next morning. yeah... that was horrible. the stuff i knew, i knew REALLY well, but the stuff i didn't know...i had NO clue. ugh. whatever, it's done. so far, i've calculated a 3.846 gpa, and i'm still waiting on my music history final grade. not too shabby... not to brag or anything. whoo, that semester is done!
anyway... saturday, i woke up early to go to a rehearsal at church for the choir. we sang a cantata in the service the next day, sooo i thought i might need to practice a little if my mom was going to recruit me to sing in the choir. after that i didn't really do much the rest of the day.
yesterday was the performance of the cantata. it went really well, though i screwed up once and added "and" on "go tell it on the mountain". bad habits are hard to break. it was actually pretty cool to sing in the choir, now that my skills have gotten better. i might do it more often.
and today... wow, today. it was awesome. i went up to prospect to meet up with mr. b. i haven't seen him since september, and i really missed him. we hung out there for a while, because he had a few errands to do. then we went to lunch at lowell st. cafe. he had a $5 gift certificate. i insisted i would pay... the bill was $4.77. hahahaha. then we went to oakwood. his students didn't come today because they're doing the holiday parties and all that. we had a serious conversation about education. he's frustrated because his students at oakwood are not on the same level as windsor or prospect, and the administration is wondering why. well, obviously because the entire demographic of the school is different, and what might work in one place just doesn't in another. after hanging out there for a while, we went to eastern heights for their band concert. i got to see my band teacher, science teacher, and history teacher. it was so weird being back there after not being there for almost four years. i was worried mr. b (different than the band mr. b) wouldn't remember me... but he actually called me by my first name! and gave me a hug. i didn't realize how much i missed him and the rest of that school until i actually walked in. so wierd how much comes back to you. i went down to the band room after the concert, and boy it was so wierd. after we left the school, i gave mr. b his present.
yay for christmas! yay for break!