Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Finals, Day 1...
Happy Dead Can Dance - Song of Sophia

Orchestra - Pretty fun... We prepped by her showing us how to take the final yet again. Then, we had our five minute break before the actual tests started. I took my playing test during that time. I had to play an E major scale on whole notes with vibrato, A flat major scale on half notes, and an A natural minor scale on quarter notes (four quarters for each note). Then, we took the written final, which consisted of matching definitions and symbols and terms together, matching composers with their pieces, and distinguishing between different major keys and time signatures. It was fun. I finished before everyone so I went into a practice room and practiced some new pieces that I found in the music library for solo viola. I did those for a while before I retied to getting Alysha's violin and playing Adagio by Bruch. I got a lot of good practice on that. I also warmed up on the violin to a piece by Fritz Kreisler. It's gorgeous and relatively simple and popular. I could probably play it, and you'd recognize it pretty easily. ;)

French III - I did no prepping whatsoever. I just had to remember which tenses were conjugated this way or that way. Stacy gave us all some m&ms to stimulate our brains. Then, we took a break and started the Dictee. After that we did the test... It consisted of a small reading and comprehension section, conjugatings verbs, and some small culture questions from our previous class warm-ups. Then, we ahd to translate one of the passages from La Pratique du Francais Parle. That was way too easy!!! Then, we just had to freewrite approximately 150 words about anything we wanted to. So, I wrote about what I thought about French class, and then I wrote a story about a goat (my very favorite French speaking goat, no less) and how she lost her roller skates and her love for them. She eventually found out she loved skating more than anything in the world. And Stacy consoled her during all of that. Funny, huh? :*

So, right after my French final I went with Jordan. I went to his house so he could eat a piece of cold leftover pizza, take out the trash, feed his dogs, and get a movie. Then, we went to my house and I got some food to eat and he got some rice and soy sauce. Then, we popped in Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. It was so awesome. I remember it pretty well for seeing it about three or four times. I love it. Everytime therewas an interesting section, I bothered Jordan about it. It was really funny. We paused the movie for a little while so we could listen to some CD that Chris let Jordan borrow with little scene snippets of conversation arranged in a fashion so that it made logical sense to the listener. It was pretty silly but kinda cool... Alors, we started up the movie again and I called Cyndi to ask if she needed a ride like three times. She only picked up the phone on the third try. So, we picked her and her fundraiser and my laptop up on Fortman and headed back to the house. She finished her Chinese lunch and we all finished out the movie. Mom got home right when the movie finished up. She wasn't a bit angry that Jordan was over. I thinks he likes him a lot more than any other guy I know. Maybe that's just because we aren't dating or he isn't my boyfriend. Comforting, non? lolz...