it's been a long time since i posted, so since everyone's been asking how my audition went i'll post a detailed story of it here, and then everyone can read it.

so on monday i went to first period, and then to the auditorium and practised with Christine. at 11 my mom came and picked us up and off we went to Waterloo. i tried to do some rudiments (theory) in the car, and got Christine to teach me some stuff i forgot, like stupid cadences. but then i learned and i was happy. then christine said she'd do some calculus while i do rudiments but then we fell asleep cuz it was so boring.
then we arrived in Waterloo and we ate lunch at pizza hut and saw lots of university students. we sat near the buffet table so we kept watching ppl go up and get food. it was really funny. we're like, seeing what they'd get, and they have for dessert this berry pie looking thing in a shape of a pizza, and we were watching the woman in the kitchen make it, and she kept giving us evil looks cuz we were laughing and talking so loud. hahah.
anyways, so we got to the music building and kinda got lost a bit, cuz i forgot to bring the paper which tells us where to go, but then we found our way and up we went in the elevator, signed in with the lady at the front desk and went to the place with all the practice rooms. we turned a corner, and i see this guy sitting in a chair who looked really familiar. so i'm thinkin to myself "what? is that Conrad? cooolll...someone i know...hmm..i wonder if Daniel's here too (his brother)" so then i turn another corner and i see his brother, and i call out, and he sees me and we're like, hey what's up, and stuff, cuz i haven't seen him in like 2 years. we used to have to same violin teacher (til i quit) and the same orchestra, so...yeah. and then i thought, oh shit, i have to compete against Daniel...oh man, this sucks. cuz he's an amazzzing player. soo...meh. then christine and i found an empty practice room and practised. it was so crappy cuz the room was freezing and i kept messing up. but the acoustics in the room was really good. and we could hear other ppl from outside, and they were all sooo good. anyways, at 2:30 we went back to the room where i was going to audition and waited for the person before me to finish. and i could hear her play and HOLY SHIT, she sounded professional. when she came out my mom recognised her. she was a student of Ti Zhang, a pretty famous violin dude from Beijing, my old teacher. so i'm like...wow...no wonder. so yea, i went in, played my pieces, but got stopped during each one (cuz it was so horrible). the place i kept messing up on in the practice rooms, i did okay, but i messed up on other places. so...yeah. then they kicked christine out and talked to me. they were asking me stuff like why do u wanna be in this program, do u know guitar (cuz the music therapy program requires you to learn it) and other stuff. and then when i came out Daniel was sitting, waiting, cuz he's after me. so then i was led to this other woman's office for my interview. it went okay. she basically asked me the same questions, but included stuff like, did u volunteer with music stuff and i answered yes, even tho it doesn't really count. i taught zipporah for like, a month. and...yeah. then we just went to the caferteria and i hung out w/ christine. and i also found out that the girl before me, Ti Zhang's student got asked by the auditioner to go back so that he can give her a free lesson. i think he really really liked her playing, otherwise he wouldn't have asked her to go back. *sigh* so anyways, at 4:15, i went back upstaires to do my theory exam. i was in the same elevator as Daniel so we were just making small talk, like "so how was your audition..." stuff like that. and then yeah...the theory exam...omg. there was the intervals and triads part where the guy played these intervals on the piano and we have to write down what they were. i messed up so much on that. stupid intervals. i hate listening excercises. anyway, after that was the easy stuff, except i still don't know what a diatonic chord is. i asked mr. pinhorn the day after, and he doesn't know either. *sigh* ah well... and then after the theory i went back downstaires to join christine and my mom and we went home. my mom was like "should we drive daniel and conrad to the bus station? it's really cold outside" and i said, nah..they're eating! and my mom said, yeah...they're used to being independant. so we left and arrived home at 8pm. then i had to practice Bonnie Doon. *sigh*
btw, speaking of bonnie doon, the performance last night was okay. i messed up at one point, but...meh. who cares. mr. pinhorn was like "can u play for us again at the spring concert?" and of course i said yes. hahahah no...no i can't play for you sorry. lol

aaaaanyways...i'm so screwed for english so i'm gonna stop typing now and read some Hamlet. bye!