Day 5: Zest, Dragonfruit and Canadiens

My last day before my first day of Block Schedule.

To start off with the musical aspect of my day we read all the way through our first Jazz chart and we're doing really well and I'm being put in a "Traditional Jazz" combo as the Banjo player. In Wind Ensemble we read our first piece, it was "With Bugle, Drums and Fife", a grade 3 in our modern day standards, but considered a grade 2 when it was first written. I played my Bassoon for the first time since it came back from the shop and they put on new cork and it was hard to assemble and disassemble. We read it pretty well for it being the first time reading as a group. Lets see how far we can get before we play at the Kennedy Center in April.

I seem to have noticed that there is an underground newspaper group going by the name Zest in memory of the once proud newspaper of my school formerly called "The Orange Peel". It's quite humorous for being a page long with interesting articles that seem to be not serious, but have attracted the attention from a growing number of youths. I came into possession of the paper from my friend named Simon. He was given it from a student a class earlier who in turn received in from another. From some sources, I've been able to gather is that it is in fact being written by students at school and that it's being written by 3 people, but other sources say that it could be more. I'll have to wait to hear about more this paper when I receive it again.

Today during lunch I had some powder stuff that you put in water bottles and it was Dragon fruit. It was quite the interesting flavor. Quite exotic, but tart and refreshing. I will have to find more of it to drink...

I made a friend today in my 7th period. She is a Canadien, from Toronto who moved here from there with her mother. I miss took her for a foreign exchange student like the other in my class from Georgia(the country that is.) She speaks French and says that if I ever need help, she could help me. I now have a tutor for French, but I think I won't be needing it much though.