Week 3 Term 2

Bonjour

This week a lot of pretty exciting stuff happened.  I am now TWO signatures away from my silver badge!!!!!  I'm soooo excited!!!  I would really like to be the first to get it, but another person in my class, Cheng-Yu, is also two signatures away, and he's a head student so it would be really good for him to get it first because he's a role model.  But that doesn't mean I'm going to stop trying!!  It's going to be quite hard to get because the two we both need are Including Others, and everyone in my class does that automatically, so it's the hardest one for Mrs Crowe to give out.  I really hope I can get it, and if I work hard I know I can get it before the end of the term.  Everyone's telling me that I should just come up to them at lunch or something and 'include them', but I don't want to get it by telling lies, I want it to be completely truthful.

On Tuesday we had our first session of music for tech arts, it was quite fun because at the start we listened to some Latin music and it was really interesting to learn about.  Sadly, just when we were about to go on the keyboard, I had to go and get my second year 8 girls injection.  It's quite a painful one, and it aches for a couple of days, but it's okay.  The injection is for year 8 girls, and we have to get three this year.  The first one was at about the start/middle of term one, and I'm not sure when the last one will be, but I think they have to be reasonably far apart from each other.

On Wednesday and Thursday was band camp.  It was the band and quoir students from our school, Cambridge Middle School, and Matamata Intermediate.  For most of the two days we practiced lots of songs over and over and over again so we'd learn them for the concert that was on Thursday night. The junior band, the band I'm in, played five songs on the night of the concert, Power Rock, Let's Rock, Hard Rock Blues, Byniup Blues, and a christmas carol, O Come Little Children.  It was a really fun experience, and I think that we all learnt a lot about music, and how to play the music properly.  I used to think that two lines of music was hard, then I tried page music, and I found that not to difficult, and the two lined was really easy.  Some of the girls from the other schools were having a bit of trouble understanding some of the music, so me and my friend Jess helped them because we play clarinet too.  I think after we helped them for the the first time they felt comfortable asking us questions.  I made a couple of friends which was nice, and they're all really friendly.
Hopefully they had a good time.  On the night of the concert, the quoir sang about five songs, I think, the junior band played about five songs, and the senior band was supposed to play ten songs, but ended up playing nine.  The song they didn't play was called Mama Mia, and I was really looking forward to it because I like the song, but the drummers couldn't find there music, and so Mrs German quickly changed it so they were playing a different song.  It was a bit gutting because everyone was excited about that song, but we all laughed about it in the end.  Overall it was a really fun experience,  and I hope it's just as fun next year as it as it was this year.  Also thanks to all the teachers who came from Cambridge and Matamata, and helped us learn the music better, it really helped.

I had lots of fun with my friends this week, and INCLUDED them lots :)

A Bientot!