Saturday, January 16, 2010

Peer Evaluation

So... This is my first "real" post. This will be for the EL peer evaluation as stated in the title.

Today wasn't average or good. It was bad... It started off with me leaving for my band practice at 8am. Luckily my father had decided to do me a favour and drive me to school. I had slept at about 11.30pm yesterday. I doubt i could have woken up in time. So I arrived outside the gates and strolled in, I still had about 5 minutes to reach the band room on the 3rd floor.Immediately I heard the familiar sounds of the band room. After I had unpacked my instrument (look at the ABOUT ME section), I warmed up abit .Time passed by quickly and half an hour was up. The Junior Leader shouted for us to fall in. All the sounds seized and everyone put down their instruments to fall into formation. Unfortunately for me, I tripped over an instrument ( I shall not say which XD ) and knocked it of the stand.I panicked as the clang was loud and obvious and someone was bound to hear it but nobody seemed to notice other than the 2 people next to me. They were from my batch so they decided not to say anything. After all, we do not really sabotage each other. Well, not for Marvin an irritating guy. He kept threatening to sell me out after that .Setting up took about 15 minutes and we got down to playing pieces after warm ups. As always, our conductor Mr.Tan got angry at us for not practising our solo parts. My senior did not get scolded but others did.Lunch was at 11+am. The queue was already snaking when I reached the canteen. Why cant they just open more stalls on weekends arghh! Even when I was eating, Marvin the irritating guy kept giggling and gesturing. I finished my meal quickly and went up again to practise for the remainder of the time which was a measly 10 minutes. Practice started again and after playing a few notes, we had to stop and wait, and wait, an wait. One of the sections were not performing well and Mr. Tan constantly reminded them of the techniques and other important things. Time crawled by and finally it was our turn to play ( FINALLY!!!). Guess what, i dropped my slide on the floor and no one else was playing at that time.It slipped out when I was about to play ( I should really get those screws to hold the slides in). I was sure that my section leader had heard it but he decided to stay silent. Two accidents in a day! What bad luck. I guess the day was bad but I was lucky that I did not get killed pumping . Lucky but bad day...So the rest of the day turned out okay. Although I dont think I would forget about today for quite awhile.

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