Essential Question Response: Thinking Positive!!!! :D

What will make me happy?

I have decided to make a list of all the reasons I am happy now, and a list for the future of why I should be happy, with a reason for every day of the week.

Why I am Happy Now:

• When we listened to the judges' commentary on our performance at Parade of Bands, neither of them said anything bad about my solo.
• When I was practicing French Horn after school, one of the band directors came out of his office and told me that I've improved tons and sound really good.
• Tomorrow I have tons of breaks.
• All my homework is done.
• I got a good grade on the last math test.
• I hung out with friends after practicing, and laughed a lot.
• This is a pretty picture:
  

Reasons to be Happy Every Day of the Week:
Monday-- I get to see friends at school, I get to go to the band room, MuggleNet updates the Caption Contest, and MuggleCast comes out with a new PodCast episode
Tuesday-- 'Shrub Monkeys' (an internet comic strip) is updated, it is no longer Monday, and I have French Horn lessons
Wednesday-- Halfway through the week, Lost is on, and this week it's my friend's birthday and we have a band concert
Thursday-- 'Tales From Band Camp' is updated, Television Without Pity comes out with a new Lost review / parody / summary, and it's almost Friday
Friday-- Anime Club, traditional family buffet / movie night, and it's FRIDAY (also, during the marching season there's either a football game today or tomorrow)
Saturday-- It's the weekend (also, during the marching season there's either a football game today or there was one yesterday, which means that in addition to marching band fun, I'm at a sleepover or about to be)
Sunday-- It's the weekend, my homework and chores are done, I am free, and tomorrow I get to see my school friends again

Strangely, I am now less happy than when I started writing this. Probably because I mentioned marching band a few times and am now suffering (again) from Marching Band Withdrawal Syndrome. *sigh* 3 months and four days until the first day of band camp...

Essential Question Response: Ka Wai Ola

What will make me happy?

Before I begin my real post, I want to follow up on a previous blog entry about the band concert. On Friday, we played in the Parade of Bands, which is a music festival where bands play and are judged. We haven't gotten our scores yet, but I do know that I did not slaughter my solo as I expected to. Hopefully I can put a recording of the concert up soon.

Now on to the real post.

My friend Chelsea and I recently signed up to be on the staff of Ka Wai Ola, which is a small book of short stories, art, and poems written by students. There are two books made every school year-- a winter edition and and spring edition. Chelsea and I read the winter edition and really enjoyed it, so we are now helping to put together the spring edition.

I really enjoy reading different submissions and discussing them, and it's going to be a great feeling when everything is assembled and I can hold the final product in my hand, and know that I was a part of the process that made it possible. It's a really fun thing to be involved in, and I look forward to signing up again next year.

Free Post: More Trailer Fun

A few weeks ago, I posted the trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Now I am just as excited, because a really really really really really really (really really) awesome trailer just came out for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.



Oh, and here's the teaser trailer, which is not nearly as good:





Anyways... brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! The only thing that could make me happier / more hyper right now would be if my math test were canceled.

Nope, not gonna happen. Oh well. I am content.