District Choir (PB)

Wednesday through Saturday was District Chorus, so I thought I would tell you all about my week. 

On Wednesday, seven of us loaded ourselves into a rickety school van, which is pretty much a box on wheels. The ride was pretty scary in the nasty roads that awaited us about halfway through our drive. Once we finally arrived we made a stop at a local sub shop called The Whole Darn Thing. It was delicious! 

After we had finished our meals, we loaded ourselves back into the van. Now we were on the way to the auditions at Meadville High School. I was so nervous. I honestly thought I was going to vomit. After we warmed up and were given the room we were going to be staying in while we were waiting to audition, we were given our audition number. I was audition number twenty five for the soprano ones... Out of twenty five. I was really nervous all ready, and now I was last to audition. Ugh. 

After my audition, it was running through my head on repeat. What could I have done better? Maybe I should have had better dynamics throughout the audition pieces. The entire rest of the night I was questioning my audition.  I was my own worst enemy.  I was left to go to my host family and get as good of a nights sleep as I could. 

When the host families first started arriving, I had my fingers crossed that I would get a really nice host family with a very clean house. But, of course, when my host family showed up, the woman had pajama pants on, which can only mean two things: she works third shift and just woke up, or she did not live the nicest, cleanest life. Option b was the correct option, unfortunately. Their house was dirty and I found a moldy cheerio on the window sill. That was pretty gross. Long story short, the three Bradford girls that were together decided that we were going to stick it out in our not-so-nice house. 

Day 2: The day that our placement would be announced. We practiced for an hour and a half before they announced the chairs. I was so rediculously nervous. I probably looked like I was going to throw up. When they finally announced the first soprano section I was extremely relieved when they announced that I was fourth chair out of twenty five first sopranos no was so excited! The rest of districts could be fun now that I knew my fate. 

That night the Bradford girls, including me, were moved out of our nasty house into a very nice, clean house. I was very thankful. 

The rest of my week was spent in extremely long practices with a lot of very interesting people. On Friday night we all went to a movie and on Saturday, we had our concert. I had a really great time and am very excited for regions next month!