Camp...

For the past week I have been experiencing NCSA's summer session 'camp.' When I first got here things ran smoothly and I signed in and everything. My room mate is Chinese and it is difficult for him to speak English, but he didn't even get here until Thursday. I'm not very sociable, but on the first day I ate lunch and dinner with this random cellist from my hometown... I ate dinner and lunch alone on Monday and Tuesday. I got here on Sunday...
The cellist I met is very cool, and forced me to eat lunch and dinner wither her XD. ...but by Wed. we were locked away in a small practice room doing improv. on basis tonic I, subdominant VI, and dominant V chords (sorry I'm such a music dork ;) with a few other people.
AND something happaned that made my life. -made me whole. I could die and be like, "Wow, I had a super-fantastic life!" AND IT WAS!!!!(drumrole)

I GOT TO CONDUCT THE WHOLE ORCHESTRA OF 80 PEOPLE DURING SAINT SAENS' DANSE BACCHENALE!!!!!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY!!!!!
omg that just made my life complete lol.

...but anyway...

I miss Chris so much. He has been stressed out all week and I have been trying to make him happy; tell him I love him and that I think about him often... I call him every now and then and we talk on IM some. It bothers me that he is all stressed. He was sick for two days and had a migraine.

The music we are playing is: Overture to Candid by Baernstein (an opera that sounds all ballroom dancey...), Hoedown by Copeland (the song that accompanies the beef commercial; that we all know and love as "The Beef Song"), Danse Bacchenale by Saint Saens, and Nimrod by E.Elgar (it is sooo pretty OMG!). The music is kind of easy, but it sounds so good and our conductor is nuts. He's metro, so s'all good.

I'm actually having a good time; it's better than last year- last year sucked out loud. Well, week one is over... four weeks to go. Wish me luck.