First off, school started this week! It was way fun going to classes after three years of being away from BYU (no offense to North Harris and Tomball, but it's so much better going to university than to community college). Brittany and I have signed up for an LDS marriage and family class. I think it should be fun. We've already gone over some really cool stuff that has brought up lots of discussion between us. We decided not to take biology together because Brittany's teacher likes the things I hate about biology and hates the things I like. My teacher likes getting into the cellular stuff, which is what I enjoy most.
Marching band has been going great. We got about 2/3 of our show, which we're playing for our big performance in October, on the field. For that show we're playing Spanish Fantasy, Calm and Malaguena. It's some crazy hard music and drill, but lots of fun. We've also gotten the first movement of our A show, which we'll be performing at the Florida State game in 2 weeks. For that we're playing the theme from Star Trek, Hernando's Hideaway, Hey Good Lookin', and Amazing Grace. On the Star Trek song, we actually make the USS Enterprise on the field, and it moves across and blows up the Borg cube on the other side of the field. I'll try to post video as soon as I can.
Auditions for performing ensembles were on Monday, and I was kind of nervous because I'd been playing my lips off the week before for marching camp. When I picked up my concert horn on Monday, I sounded terrible because of marching camp, and also because I had my brass workshop class (where basically I learn to play all the brass instruments) and had been playing trombone all morning. But I was smiled upon by the powers that be, and on Wednesday I found out I was selected as principle horn in the symphony orchestra. For those of you who don't know music lingo, that's first chair in the second orchestra. I was hoping for an orchestra, and couldn't have gotten a better placement. It's going to be an exciting year and I'm excited for another crack at BYU performing ensembles.
Last night, Brittany and I went on a double date with my friend, Chris, and Brittany's old roommate, Joy. It was a blind date for them, and it went really well. Chris and I and Chris's other roommate (who helped us just for fun) made spaghetti with Chris's secret family recipe meat sauce, and garlic bread. It was very delicious. After that we watched The Sandlot, and played Risk 2210 (the futuristic version of it). It went really well and we all had fun.
Anyway, it's late and we're going to bed. Hope everyone is ok. Love lots.
Christian and Brittany
P.S.
Triple Chocolate Mess
1 chocolate cake mix
1 chocolate pudding mix (any size)
1 pint sour cream
6 oz chocolate chips
3/4 cu oil
4 eggs
1 cu water
Spray 4 qt crock pot with non-stick spray
Mix all the ingredients together in crockpot
Cook for 6-8 hours on Low
Serve over ice cream
It's good, but hard to clean up, so wash while it's warm.
Kbye
Congrats on getting principle horn. We know you're amazing! We miss you both!
ReplyDeleteI just noticed your link on Adam and Candace's blog list! Hooray for blogs! It is fun to hear more about how y'all are doing. Way ta go on first chair. I told Andrew and he is impressed fo sure. He has his first regional audition coming up in a few weeks. Do you have any advice for him? :)
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ReplyDeletePlay with expression. Get into the music. Make your louds louder and your softs softer. Don't try to go faster than you can go on scales. Eat a banana to help with nerves about half an hour before you play. It's something about the potassium I think.
Brittany says to help with expression, think of a story in your head that goes along with the music. Like elves dancing in a forest and a witch comes etc... something creative that you can imagine easily. Then when you audition, think of the story while you play.
you jerk, you made me lose the game!
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