Run, Katie, Run!

my fourth update on the marvel that is Celebration Iowa Rehearsal Camp.

The Luther Campus is so beautiful. I love it here.
It's Sunday, so we were allowed to sleep in, if we choose. I went to Church. It was a Lutheran Church, but not at all like my church at home. I'm glad that it was different. I enjoy contrast.

I discovered the track here and have gone running a little bit. I always forget how much I love it until I have a lot of bottled up emotions that all get released when I run. Running on a track is different from running around my neighborhood, but I like it because you don't have anything to distract you and it's harder to keep track of how far you've run. It's better that way. All the same, I'm getting sick of making left turns.

We've gone through all three of the vocal sets. Right now we're working on the Broadway set, which has a lot of problems in the band arrangements. The British set had some problems too, but I think we fixed them more quickly. The British set is still my favorite, but Broadway has its moments.

Guess what we worked on in improve class yesterday.
Impressions.
yeah. I'm serious.
anyone from 7th hour jazz class would know what I'm talking about.

It's still weird for me to play the 3rd trumpet part. They're always telling us to listen up to the lead, which I'm perfectly fine doing, but I'm just not used to it. I feel like I really stick out of the sound sometimes. This is probably the tightest band I've ever been in, so whenever I screw up it's really noticeable. On the other hand, when no one screws up, we end up sounding really good.

I wonder how often the average band member makes a stnank.

this one might be kind of short because I'm really hungry for breakfast.

The only day we have to sleep in is Sunday, where rehearsals start at 12:30pm. I didn't sleep in because I went with a couple of others to a church in Decorah. It was interesting.

Yesterday was '80's day. a lot of people went all out for it. especially the singers. My room-mate put my hair up in a side pony-tail.

Yesterday was also our first performance. We played 45 minutes of music for the middle schoolers from Dorian Music camp, which is also at Luther this week. Our director says that it was a better first performance than they have had in years past. So that's a good thing.

Yesterday night I went running on the track. It was my first time running since I've gotten here. That's a good thing.

So, ever since I've gotten here I've been really addicted to facebook, getting on at every opportunity. Yesterday, I'm proud to say, I went the whole day without getting on at all. Go me! I'm breaking the addiction.

Did I mention that we have to stretch with the singers in the morning? It can be anything from yoga to an ab workout to a dance. Some of the band people don't like doing it. I could go either way.

That's it for now.

*peace*

Yeah, so I'm back in the whole cross country thing! Last Thursday was my first race, and I think I did pretty well considering that I haven't run in a while. I wanted to do better, but I know I will do even better next time, even though next time is Valley and I hated that race last year.

Yesturday I experienced a speed workout. We were supposed to run as fast as we could for one lap, and then walk half a lap. We did this four times. I'm not used to doing stuff like that. I can only actually sprint for a little less than 200 meters, but I had to do the whole 400. That was really hard and I hated it, but looking back, I think it was really good for me. Today I can still feel where I had been working the hardest (the back of my thighs...are those called hamstrings? and my calves). Today I think I will go for an easy run on my own and see how far I can go.

That is all.