My School Diary

Orchestra Without The Teacher

That's what the teacher said when she said she's going to leave. Without any teacher to teach us and a contest coming up, how the heck does she think we're going to manage? And she expects us to be perfect! Anyways, yesterday, February 11 was that day she left. She was going to leave us for three days to go to a music convention thing in San Antonio and we had to practice on our own in our classroom. Honestly, it was best thing ever, despite the fact that the contest is really close. Yesterday all the eighth graders went on a field trip so the school was only filled with seventh and sixth. Anyways, everyone was supposed to be practicing on their own but I decided to drag 1st violin (Richard) to play with me since I was a 2nd violin. Then another violin (2nd) and a cello wanted to join. We decided to make a mini orchestra but not everyone we recruited wanted to join so we played on our own. After two run throughs, we had another violin and viola ask to join and soon enough we had like all cellos, 8 violins, and 3 violas playing together. It was so cool! We sounded amazing. Richard and I had like the WHOLE CLASS under OUR CONTROL! But it was still loud as heck in between switching song. I was probably the loudest, or at least trying to be. Richard and I were joking about how I would be the Asian dictator of orchestra and everyone would be overpowered by me... Hehe

Anyways at first, we played Butterfly. That song is slow, so boring too. No offense to anyone in my class who likes that and to the person who composed it. Apache was one of the more epic songs. We played that song like professionals, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit there, but it still sounded amazing. The Russian Music Box sounds really amazing but I don't think we could play it without our teacher. We couldn't get the rhythm right yesterday and was messing up towards the end...  Today, everyone was thinking about doing it again but the problem is that, the eighth graders were back. I was afraid that they're going to be the noisiest and we won't get to be epic again, and turns out... half of my prediction was right. They were loud... and so were we. I guess that's fair though right? But good thing was, WE SOUNDED AWESOME! And I DIDN'T LOSE MY VOICE!