The World According To Madeleine

We have our first jazz band concert on Monday! I’m so exited because I have a solo!

Last night, right before dinner, the dogs started barking at something. We went and looked. The pigs had escaped. I ran downstairs, then remembered I wanted a sweatshirt, and the ran up stairs and fell and stubbed my toe really bad. I ran down to help, and then I shut the two pigs in the pasture, where they had conviniantly ran to. Mom and Scott got the first one, so I went down to herd one of the pigs up to the pig pen. That one was pretty easy. The last one, was not. She decided that she wanted to stay in the pasture and eat all the good stuff. We finnially herded her back with the other pigs, and then we had to repair the fence. When pigs know you are repairing the fence, they decide that they should go scratch against it. Mom got the pigs to go to the other part and it was much eisier. We got the fence repaired, so we went to eat dinner. I thought it was really fun to chase some pigs into their pen and then fix the fence.

MEAPS are done!!! YAY!!!!!

I didn’t feels so good today. I was really hot, and I had a migrane. Yuck. It started during bad when I realized the music was shimmering. So when I started playing it I messed up. A LOT. And to make it worse there were only three trumpets playing, and it was our first time playing it, and I was the only one on my part. Then I just felt sick all day.

I asked today if we could play some White Stripes in jazz band today. Sadly, there sre no songs written by the White Stripes in the music library we get music from. Darn. I love the White Stripes. Who couldn’t have them in their music library?!? Hmmm, someone needs to do that.

We got our honors band results yesterday, everyone who tried out made it……. I’m in the first band and I’m second chair baby! I’m the only trumpet player from our band who’s in band one. I wish Taylor had tried out, because I’m all alone…….. We got the music today. The first band is playing The Great Locomotive Chase. I love that song! The eighth graders played it last year.

Today we got the results of challenges. I didn’t want to tie with Taylor. I REALLY didn’t want to tie. But we did. Both of us were sad, we didn’t want to play scales in front of everybody. We had to play our Ab scale. Taylor had to go first and when he started he hit an F before hitting the Bb. He then played the rest just fine. I started out on a Bb, and then played it correctly.

In jazz band we played “Into the Land of Make Believe” it’s a cool song, but I don’t think it fits with the title. It even has a trumpet “solo”, exept all of the first trumpets play it. It’s still pretty cool though. Then I had a private trumpet lesson, and Mr. G. checked my trumpet, the only thing he said as that I’d need to be careful to keep my mouth the same so it would be in tune.