Orchestra - Week 46

When I pulled this up, I actually had to take a second to remember what I did last week. But now I think I mostly remember. Starting the week off on Monday, I finally attended my first Math Team meeting of the year (yes I went to a competition before attending a meeting) and we did a cool concept of a relay with the questions. What happens is that each person gets their own question and they build off of what the person before them got as an answer. This means that if the first person gets it wrong, none of the team will probably get it right. I went as the third person mostly and it involved questions that couldn't be solved without getting the answer first. You could preemptively prepare for it, but it likely would not work as the number the person gets before you comes quick and is usually pretty high.

Tuesday and Wednesday started the orchestra concerts. I managed to get a solo in the Prelude in C as the violin in the first few seconds. We also played Hoedown which is a pretty well known piece that I played way back in 8th grade or freshman year for EYSO. I played concert master for Shooting Star and the Prelude and Fugue while Vaishi played concert master for all the Hoedown Performances. This all happened on Tuesday and we played for the 8th graders on Wednesday with Hoedown. We wore bandanas for those concerts and it was really fun seeing them listen to us. 

Thursday is when we got our ILMEA music for District 9. There were a lot of Spanish Influenced pieces as well this year. I forgot the name of the first one, but the second one was Carmen suites. Of course there is the Star Spangled Banner and the Price symphony. I'm really excited to play Carmen because it is such a classic that everyone knows as well. On Friday, there was a lot of excitement since we were recording for Prism in our small ensembles. The recordings kept getting disrupted since people kept laughing during it for some reason. It started when we were doing our introduction since the name was in French so that got everyone riled up. Eventually we just all couldn't hold it in since we were looking at people trying not to laugh. Eventually we gave up. I also did my senior photos on Friday and I think I looked pretty good in them!

On Saturday, I went biking at the Morton Arboretum with a friend. We got some new epic photos with more light this time and we had a great time biking around. In total we did just under 16 miles. There were a lot of slopes and the downhills were super fun (If the quality's bad change it to 1080 it's not automatic). He also happens to be my partner for Forestry and we studied the trees there and identified a few as well. There was a great research site that was interesting that changed the growing conditions of trees. It was a really fun day and I hope I can do it one more time before the season is over! Sunday was a slump day, nothing happened except college apps... mainly UChicago.

Lots of photos at the bottom wowie so cool! Anyways that's it for this week, thanks for reading!

-Charlie