How do you fit four elephants into a mini?
Two in the front, two in the back.
I've been told I need more faith in myself, especially when it comes to playing the clarinet. I did my grade 5 a few weeks ago and made so many stupid mistakes that I expected to scrape a pass. I found out yesterday I got a merit, which I pretty much exploded with happiness at.
(Pass = okay, merit = very good, distinction = ridiculously good.)
How can you tell if there's an elephant in your fridge?
There are footprints in your butter.
Yet a part of me keeps thinking over all the bits I messed up just because I let the nerves get to me and thinking about the mark I could have got. Because I know I could have got much higher.
How can you tell if there are two elephants in your fridge?
They giggle when the lights go out.
I also went on this orchestra course last week and I really don't know what I was panicking about. All the people there were so awesome and nice. The phrase 'orchestra course' probably doesn't spring to mind any interesting images but it was such an enjoyable week. I've not had that much fun in a while, and I felt myself improve so much day by day.
How can you tell if there are three elephants in your fridge?
You have difficulty shutting the door.
At the beginning, they shunted me down near the very end of the second clarinets (sat next to most annoying boy of the year) and I joked to Robbie that I was that bad, but it didn't bother me. Even when the second clarinets would have to repeat things over and over cause the rhythm wasn't quite right, I didn't panic or think that I was awful. The pieces were hard and nobody's perfect.
How can you tell if there are four elephants in your fridge?
As for the concert... I'm kinda disappointed. I know I could play better.
But yeah, maybe I should be easier on myself. I've come so far in the past few months... and I didn't need the support from Robbie that I thought I would over the past week (other than one evening where I misplaced some music, got extremely stressed and cried a bit into his hoody, and then laughed at how stupid I was being and his stupid jokes, and then cried a bit more cause that was just the kind of pathetic mood I was in.)
There's a mini parked outside.
I should get some sleep. Off to the best place in the world (Montpellier) for two weeks avec ma famille.
Which is good. I need a holiday.
