The World According To Madeleine

Track season has ended. Track was a lot of fun this year. Everyone pretty much seemed to get along, or they just left you alone if you didn’t like each other. All the seventh graders were awesome, I made a lot of seventh-grade friends, who I’m going to miss an awful lot next year. I’m hoping that they’ll all join the the cross country and track team when they join the rest of us in high school. In addition to making a lot of friends and just generally having fun, the girls team was great, we won a lot of meets including the Wolverine Conference Meet at the end of the season. I met people, we won a lot, and I found my race. Speaking of my race, my PR is still 2:54, but at a relay meet my split might’ve beaten that, if not it tied, I’ll just have to look at the video again to check the time. Also, at the conference meet, I ran the 55 hurdles, and I managed to finally three-step the hurdles, except for the last one, where I lost speed and panicked, it slowed me down, but I won my heat.

Also on the running subject, cross country training is starting this summer, and hopefully I’ll be able to go to training camp, that sounds like a lot of fun. Cross country next year just sounds fun, we get to run the game ball to homecoming, and we’ll do this thing called the twenty-four hour marathon, where the whole cross country team goes to the track and one person runs a mile, then another, and it goes on for a day. That sounds like a lot of fun, but for people who don’t like to run it sounds like torture. Thank goodness I like to run. The coaches seem nice, and they say that all the runners are nice and we all end up loving each other. Extra bonus.

Track has been hard. Run a lot, no time to stretch, sore next day, walk like old person, can’t run. It’s fun though. I like running, I like being around my friends.

Eight chickens have died this week, Pollock got out and got them. Trick Chicken and Doris died. My chicken and my other favorite. Very sad, I cried. I don’t know who the other six are. I don’t want to go into the chicken coop to find out.

Sprig break started today. I don’t want it to. All but one of my friends are leaving, or have already left. I want to be at school where I can see everyone. Six hours into spring break and I’m already lonely. I need my friends.

New Modest Mouse cd, it’s a good one. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. I would recommend it, but not for people who don’t want their kids listening to songs with swear words or don’t like or are offended by profanity.

I’ve been riding Alaska more. I still like her, but turns are very hard. I can fully understand what Trevor (owner) meant when he said that Alaska is so big it’s hard to turn. Makes me sad that Guy won’t be at the barn anymore. I’m pretty sure he’s moving to a western barn. I think he has too much potential as a hunter/jumper for him to become a barrel racer. *sigh* I’ll miss him a lot. I don’t even know when he’s leaving.

Thus endeth my short post.

In auditions I thought I played well, but not that well. I’m first chair! That is huge because I’ll only be a freshmen next year. Freshmen don’t get first chair. I had to ask Cha several times if the asterik by my name actually meant I was first chair. I’m pretty sure she got annoyed. Out of at least twenty-two trumpets, I played the audition music best. I am so proud of myself. This also makes me nervous. I’ll have to be the first one to memorize music, the one to know all the rhythms, and just to be the best. I’m pretty sure the other trumpet players will be mad. Put yourself in their situation. There is a phenomenal trumpet player, she’s by far the best. This year she’ll be graduating, so you’ll at least you’ll have a chance at first chair, but then some freshmen comes and gets first chair. They even have the same name! I’d be ticked off if I had told people that no freshman would be in the top five chairs, but four of the five are freshmen. Wouldn’t you be hacked off? Hopefully they won’t be as mad at me once they get to know me….. I’m just so happy! Anna got first chair too!

Dad and Lori are now engaged! I’m so happy for them! Dad proposed on Friday, on Sunday, we all had a talk about what it was going to be like, what was going to change and what was going to stay the same, I think they did a very good job. At first I was a little nervous, just because it would be such a big change to live with four more people than I usually do. A seven person household. After the wedding this June, we’re going to move to Lori’s house, because it’s bigger than ours. T and Andrew will share a room, Coleman will get Andrew’s (I think) room, and I’ll have a room in the basement. It’ll be fun. I’m excited. I think today Lori, Aunt Ruthie, and I are going to look at dresses. Not buy yet, but look.

I’m sick today, I stayed home from school yeterday and today too, I’m planning on being at school tommarow though. I think I have the flu. However, that’s not my post.

Remember last year, when I had solo and ensamble? You might not, because the only people who would know are people who know me personally or people who have been reading my blog since it was started, but then again, those are the only people who read this. Anyways, I’m doing a solo and a quartet with Taylor, Will, and Tyler. Last year I (or we) got a one (an A) for our rating. This year’s music is much harder though. I know we can do it, but I’ll (or we’ll) have to work hard, especially since we have to practice our auditions for high school band. The music is hard, and we hae to play a chromatic scale from memory the whole range of our instrument. That’s pretty high. I can play it now, as long as I’m warmed up and there’s not a big jump to it. when I’m nervous, I don’t know if I’ll be able to. I know we don’t have to play tha high, if we can’t, but I’d be mad at myself if I didn’t even try and end up being in concert band, and not in jazz band. That’s what I’m really looking forward to, is jazz band, ever since I heard them play “I Wish” by Stevie Wonder. We might be able to play it when I’m a senior, because then no one will have played it twice, but I doubt it. I’ll just have to ask. It doesn’t matter that much though, because a lot of the songs that they play are cool or pretty. I hope our group will be able to be as good, because the seniors graduating this year include some very talented musicians. I think we’ll be fine.

Today we had a snow day, which, I kind of didn’t want, because i wanted to see my friends, but it’s really good because we have exams starting tomorrow, so this means we have a shorter week, which means I’ll probably do better on my exams.