Les Mis Performance

I remember going to see Les Mis live. I only wish I could have seen a professional troupe.


When I went to see the movie, I fell head-over-heels for the music and story line all over again.






Last night was fantastic!!!!!!!!!!
I have loved the music of Les Mis ever since I started listening to the music and started watching the 25th anniversary performance.
We watched the performance in Springfield. For the small size of the theater and the fact that in Springfield does not have many professional musicians, therefore most, if not every, actor is a volunteer, they did an amazing job.
We were able to set right up front. In the second and third rows on the far left. Therefore we were able to see everything very well.
I cannot wait until the movie comes out this winter. As I stated earlier, I have watched the 25th anniversary performance and each time I have watched it, as well as seeing the performance last night, my desire to watch it has increased every time.
Well, for now I am out of topics to blog about.

Post-Grad Life

I have officially graduated!!!!

Saturday, May 28, 2011 I graduated from homeschool high school with a life-long friend. It went very well.

There was a slide show of our lives, and we did a Praise and Worship time at the end before we went to eat and fellowship.

There was a chocolate fountain, two different kinds of cakes, three different dips with chips, home-made mints, an assortment of nuts, and three beverages.

For my presents, I, of course, received a rather large chunk of money. Along with that, I was given a three piece suitcase set, an iPad and leather case for it, a very cool, very big pocket knife that has a seascape with a boat on both sides, a BIG box of chocolates and a very nice journal and a toiletry bag. I love all of my gifts, if anyone gave me anything, I would like to say here: Thank you for your gifts and your presence at a huge moment of my life.

Now, I can no longer say that I am homeschooled. L But there are bigger and better thing that are ahead of me. My best days are ahead of me, as Danny Gokey’s single from his first album says.

I have finished up with a lot of things that I will no longer be attending as a full student. I finished orchestra and choir and private music lessons. I am sad that they finished, but I am excited at the same time as well. Is that a bad thing? Now if I ever go back it will be to visit with friends.

The VBS decoration process has started back up. This will be my first VBS not being homeschooled. It’s sad, but exciting.

As I talk of VBS, it reminded me of summer and swimming and that we opened our pool a few weeks ago and I had my first swim of this year today!! Also that I go a new swimsuit.

This past semester I have been taking a class with my grandmother. It is a class for Swedish Weaving and Huck Toweling. I have been enjoying it very much. It will be going through the summer and into the fall.

I will be going to college in the fall. I will be going for English.

I think that is it for now. I will attempt to keep up with posting now that school is over and that it is summer.

One little mistake

I forgot to say in the last post, that Maddie and I(with a few extra "sisters") went to a bonfire for the choir that we are in. Everyone in the choir, ever since it has started, has stated that we need to get together and have a party of some kind. A little over two years after the choir's first meeting, we finaly had a party on the 10th of October. Two years. 2.

I had a lot of fun. We had the typical bonfire food there, i.e. hotdogs, chips, soda, smores, and a lot of other desserts.

We sang around the fire accompanied by a guitar.

We also played a name game. In this game, the first person had to say their name and the state that they were born in. The the person next in line would have to say all of the pepole BEFORE him/her and add themseves to the line of names. It went that way, all the way around the fire. When it got back to the firts person, which was our choir director, she had to do everyone in reverse order. So instead of starting with herself, again and going in the order that everyone esle did, she had to start with the last person who did it and go around the fire backwards. Until she got back to herself. It was really fun.

Recitals, Cool Choir Pieces, Crazy Boys

Tonight Emi and Gabe's Viola teacher is having a recital. So we are going to it. They say that he is really short. That is one of the reasons that I'm going. Not that I don't want to listen to the music, It's just that I'm not that tall, so if he is shorter than me, I will be sooooooo happy. 'Cause I don't know any guys that are my age or older that are shorter than I am.

Kara has some choir pieces that she wants to do on her blog. They are really cool.

Yesterday in church, we had potluck. It was fun. When Kara, Luke, and I were leaving. Or should I say attempting to gather the kids up to leave. Well, Luke was at the blue van, saw me coming, and ran in the parking-lot. When he has been told many times that he was not supposed to do that. One of my friends, Micah, saw it too. He asked me: "Want me to go get him?" So, being the non-athletic person that I am, I didn't refuse the offer. He striped his coat off, while running towards the area that Luke had run off in, turned to me, and through his coat at me. It landed on the ground, he turned back around and ran off after Luke. I then hear his mom yelling his name. She then asked me to pick it up, and beat him up for doing that. So I picked up his coat, and walked towards the area where the boys were. When I got there, Micah had Luke in the cruke of his arm and was walking towards me. I then took the boy, and handed Micah his coat. As I was handing it to him, I told him: "Your Mom wanted me to beat you up for droping your coat." He smiled, and said: "Just smack my cheek right here, like this." He imitated what I was to do. I did it.

I'm Bored

I am SO bored!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have nothing to do but: read, play music, catch up on school that I haven't finished yet, watch tv, and play computer. (Like I have any games that I really play on the computer.)

What Next?

The title practically says it all. We finished Orchestra Thursday, so I have nothing to do. Well, if you count school, music lessons, babysitting on Wednesday nights, and church on Sunday things worth doing then I agree. But orchestra was such a big part of my life that now its over for the summer, the things I mentioned above will have to do. As I mentioned in a previous post, I'll also have to look forward to V.B.S. this summer as well. Yesterday felt like a Saturday, Thursday felt like a Friday, and today feels like another Saturday. The second in a row.

I got my hair cut Thursday!!!! I don't know how much(in inches) I got cut off, but I know it was a lot. If you want to see my before and after pics, go to "Kara's Blog" in "My Favorite Blogs."

At Long Last, I Have Something Worth Telling

The title says it all. I have something worth while to write. As I said yesterday, I would wait to see what today had in store. My waiting payed off. Well, for starters, I feel a whole lot better today. If that means anything to any of you.

Today in theory my theory teacher, Mrs S., brought her "Carnival of the Animals" for us to listen to. She forgot to bring it last week(the week I was gone) and that made me feel a whole lot better. That I hadn't missed anything to important. So we listened to that. There's a story behind all of this, though.

It starts out the last time I was at orchestra. We were all in theory, and listening to the CD of the musical time periods. We were on the Romantic time period. And we got to the "Carnival of the Animals" and Josiah H. and Luke S. got up and started doing impersonations of the three animals that were played on the CD. The swan, the elephant, and something else. The one that involves the bones. I wish we had gotten pictures of that. I would have put them on here if I did. It was SO funny. Their faces were priceless. Did I stress that we were all laughing so hard that, I'm pretty sure, everyone was crying from laughing so hard.

During my playing hours, I say hours because I play violin in one class and then harp in the class right after that, I thought that we did pretty good, all things considered. And during choir we did pretty good too, all things considered.

Well, better go. Time to eat dinner. Barbecued chicken. That my dad cooked. Just to tell all of you, he is a really, really, REALLY, good cook. There are two reasons I say this. First off, because it's true. Secondly, because I think he reads this blog, so I have to watch what I say about him.

The Quartet

The Quartet yesterday was really cool. It consisted of 2 violins, 1 viola, and 1 cello. All but the viola player were guys. Which kinda made her the "special" one. But the guy that was on the first part said that the violin was the BEST instrument EVER invented. At first I agreed with him. But that was the violin player in me agreeing. Then my vocal, piano, and harp players kicked in and said: "that's not entirely true." So now I say that EVERY instrument invented is the best one. Because if everyone said that their instrument was the best, wouldn't ALL of them be the best? I guess it's just all depends on what kind of music you really like to listen to and play.