Yeah! I am homeschooled as well, but go to the public school band! I also fake an art class!

Oh oh! Cool story!  

So last quarter I took a 2D art class. Everybody talked a lot so we got way behind. My teacher had to teach me ahead of time because I was leaving for vacation.

We did an abstract drawing, and the school administrator was going to the capital and offered to take a piece of work along! There was a miscommunication involved and she thought it was a piece from everybody, but only just one apparently! She chose mine! It's going to hang in the governor's mansion and I'm going to get a signed certificate from him! ITS SO COOOL!

ANNNDD! We took a picture of our eye and another picture (I took a picture of a tree in from of a moon). We drew with charcoal and put the object in the eyeball. She is allowed to enter twelve pieces in the district art competition, usually one from each class and sometimes two, etc. She chose my eyeball! And it is a competition!

The downside is I don't get to see them for a while!

But EEEEEE!!!

Also, I have concluded everybody on here is REALLY talented! Most of the people who are in bands, for example, are first chair or close! I think it's cool! The chatterbox is full of so many different types of talent!

Also, my band has WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY TOO MANY FLUTES AND IT IS REALLLYY STUPID! I wish my band teacher could put eighth graders in concert band. There are about three that should be moved back, but cannot because they are older!

There is one girl who is INSANE! She is never in her seat when class starts, and just today she fell down! She drops her flute all of the time too! And uses it AS A SWORD??

This is fun! I officially declare this  a rant/talk thread!

I play flute like you Katydid, although I bet I'm not as good. Our town has an All Town Band concert every two years that I just played in a few weeks ago. It's all the bands in our town coming together. Each age group (4th grade, 5th and 6th grade, middle school, and high school) play a song or two and then the entire group plays one short song. I'm sure it's not nearly as big as your mass band, but it's really fun. When we all played at once I thought I would go deaf.

On a sort of unrelated note, my flute teacher is retiring this year and I'm really sad. She works at our high school too, so I would have her in a few years if she weren't leaving. At the all town band, the announcer person announced that she was leaving, and the entire band and audience clapped for her, and I was so happy. I was really proud of her even though I know that she's played in important performances and has probably had more important standing ovations. I was really happy to see her conducting the high school band and getting so much applause. My friend who also plays the flute and I didn't realize she conducted the high school band, so when my friend poked me and said, "That's Mrs. T.!" It was quite a shock. (In a good way)

Sorry that that was so long, I needed to rant in a good way. 

Hey Katydid! Great to see you around! (Shudders) Math. Is. Evil. I'm behind too. Alaska you say? I'm assuming that it is light all day and all night there again, or is it still dark?

Wow! I'm surprised how many people are in band on Cricket! I totally agree, there is certainly a bunch of talent here! 

@Katydid: I know exactly how you feel when there is an annoying kid in the class. There is this one boy in my class who sits next to me and plays the clarinet as well. HE IS SUCH A PESSIMIST AND I HATE IT. Sorry, I just had to say that. Anyways, every time I ask him how his day went, he always says it was horrible. I ask him what made it horrible, and he says everything. One time, he said that it was all my fault. I asked him all my fault for what? And he just repeated that it was all my fault. UUUGGHHH!!!! He annoys me EVERY TIME I go to band. I have now decided to nickname him Monsieur Melencholy. (Virtual Ice Cream to anyone who knows where this nickname comes from!)   

Lol, I'm supposed to be playing clarinet right now, but I'm procrastinating. XD

I don't do band (as I said, my school is very this-talent-goes-here), but I do take private piano lessons and it's a lot of fun! My teacher teaches a lot of students, and every year she hosts a small recital at a local church. It's funny because we have tiny little five-year-olds playing steps and then fourteen-year-olds playing full-out epicness. What was a little unstrategic of my teacher last year, though, was that she had about (and I'm not exaggerating) five kids playing the same song-- some back-to-back.

I'm a little nervous this year, actually, because I chose a song to work on that I would have to sing. It's a fantastic song, and I really like it, but my singing voice has been declared a national disaster, and the syncopation! It's a really hard song for someone who's never sang professionally before! But I did take it on to myself, and I think it'll be fun if I can get the hang of it. It's pretty repetitive and I already know the song and most of the lyrics.

Hi!!!

I just changed schools and I'm really annoyed because I play cello but my school doesn't have a real orchestra except for Chambers Strings after school on Friday for like half an hour AND THERE ARE ONLY THREE PEOPLE two violins and me and we have really easy songs that I'm waaaay ahead on and it's really annoying because we do have a real band which my twin brother is in and so he's getting better at clarinet while I have no way to get better at cello until my parents can get private lessons. Whew.

Anyhoo, school. School would be great if not for nearly all the girls in my grade gossiping ALL THE TIME and getting involved in stupid middle school girl drama which is sooooooooooo annoying. Also, there has been a rumour that I like someone who I really DON'T. I am friends with that person but people are being soooo annoyinng about it and they have somehow decided that I like that person WHICH I DON'T.

I actually think math is the best subject for some reason I really love it and think it's really fun. However, history is the ABSOLUTE WORST. We have three times as much history homework as any other classes and our teachers give us soooo much work. It's also the only thing keeping me from high honors (which is the highest.) ALL of our grades have to be A- and above (including PE art music and technology) and I got a B+ in history. And last term the only thing was keeping off of it was PE, which was a B+ because they didn't like my level of "engagement," which I really don't get because I am super engaged and focused and I don't get how they don't see that. SO if my grade went from a B+ to an A- in PE or history I would have been on high honors!!! Urgh!!!

Sorry just realized that was really long 

Elena, might there be a community orchestra you could join?

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Elena, long is fine!

I'm going to write something long...Nobody will probably read it because this is dying, but thats okay. Cricket is a good place to document stuff! (Document? More like write)

Eit. That is the word I spelled with the previous three lines! ^ Have you guys ever been paranoid about scanning for hidden messages?

Anyway...

Someone on the compliment thread mentioned how I was a dreamer, thank you by the way. I realized that was probably true. I think and dream a lot. It seems more like I dream then actually do though...I feel like my dreams are so vast and huge that I am never going to get all of them done. Or even midly accomplished.

My biggest dream is to accomplish everything. Kinda funny. I crossed it off my list long ago, but the memory remains.

My next biggest dream is to do my best. *Pauses and sighs* I've already not done so good at that one.

The list goes on...and they are all possible, but there are just SO MANY things I LOVE doing! I've mastered some, well not mastered, but am on the way. Like my flute, piccolo, and art. I really wish I could be fully happy.

But right now I am going through major religious breakthroughs/mourning. (If you are not Christian I don't expect you to agree with below. Do not feel oblidge to read it~)

I'm reading a book called "Before you Meet Prince Charming."  I would encourage young (It's Christian-based) girls every where to read this book about purity. 

I've been really eye-opening for me, because recently I've been really bad about my realtionship with God. I'm trying to focus more on him and kinda of move my really close friend out of my life a little. THe book specifically says not to get really close with any guys, because before you know it a relationship will form. Pretttyyy much what happened.

I'm going to try to listen to my parents as well as God in this matter, and focus more on him. Because, truth be known, the love letter most girls dream about is right in front of me! God's Word, or the Bible! He is also the main focus of my life, forever and always, but right now during my young age I especially need to focus on dedicating these years to him.

Ugh. It is going to be really hard for me to turn things around. I'm trying to encourage one person each day with kind words, but haven't started yet. I am going to start tommorow (Hopefully) if I gain the courage. 

I feel like it might give me a taste of happiness, and I'll thirst for it more as I try to go onward with my relationship with God.

I'm sure you all are probably like, "Oh Katy is so dedicated!"

Well, maybe not all, but I am DEFINITELY not as dedicated to my God as I should be. It's been real hard to stay on track, and I keep drifting away. *Eats a cracker and sighs*

(If you chose to skip the above section you can read now~)

And I've been kinda neglecting my music practice. Not practicing over an hour on my flute+piccolo or even half an hour on my piano! 

Oh well, wish me luck!

(P.S. I am listening to sad music again.)