Day one of the orchestra trip.
So, we loaded the two buses, one heavy with the baggage of cellos and basses, the other weighted down by the changes of clothing and other various items of a more personal nature than the blocks of chiseled wood and fiber wires and horsehair that we make noise with. We also said good bye to those among us that were not going yet turned out to say good-bye: Jinha Yang, Tim Shaw, and Christine Lee being the most painful to not have come though I feel it would have been fun to also have Louise's fashions and the other Elizabeth Wang for her violin talent and the fun of her shared name.
This ride down wasn't all the way to Orlando, thankfully, and we watched Monster's Inc. along the way. I still say that the movie short at the beginning is better than the movie, but that's not to say that the movie doesn't have it's moments. We got to the hotel rather late and went to our rooms after unpacking our suitcases. I was originally to room with Edmund, Jason, and Tim, but with Tim's absence we instead recruited Keith, whose last name I haven't the slightest idea of, who is one of the first chair first violins (Sinfonietta has dual concert masters, he's one (The other is the other Elizabeth Wang)). Although only a freshman, he was pretty cool, and made for a good forth person for playing cards, and a fairly decent bomberman opponent, but that's an entirely different story. Jason had borrowed a Chinese friend's laptop, which we laid on a plastic bag full of ice every night to keep from overheating. And ran ZNES (a Super Nintendo emmulator) to play Tetris Attack. Jason is better than Edmund who is better than me, and Keith didn't even try. It was fun to watch, and somehow Jason and Edmund managed a 6 minute game (note, 2 minutes is a long time, roughtly 1 minute is an average game and also the shortest).
Nothing special happened that day, just the ride and then cards and Tetris at the hotel and then sleep.