The Christmas Bazaar

Yesterday we had the long awaited Christmas Bazaar! There was lots of games for the little kids, a whole bunch of booths selling stuff, and lots and lots of food. And of course performances. In total I had 5 performances in 5 hours! So I was running around all day. The only thing I bought was food, which was awesome! And a new pair of earrings, they are really pretty. So my first performance was playing the Alto Saxophone by myself, which it seemed a lot of people liked. I played three traditional Christmas carols. Right after that the school choir performed, which was fun, and I liked all the songs, but one was really cheesy. We sang "Night of Wonders", "Winter Fantasy", "Rock and Roll Snowman", as you can probably tell, that was the cheesy one, and "Peaceful", a really good song, similar to the song we song last year at this time, "Song of Peace". Then after that I had free time until 1, which is when I bought my first pair of earrings. At 1 my saxophone teacher and I played a couple duets for Christmas carols, and when I had put my sax away, my friend came and told me that we were supposed to do a trio! So then I had to quickly put is back together and do the trio, with piano, violin, and saxophone. It sounded really good. Then after a while at around 2ish, our whole family performed a song, "Merry Christmas with Love". My and my sister had solos, and my mom and dad just sang along on the chorus. It was really funny though after cause there was this group of girls that were listening, these were the popular girls that I don't even talk to and they are older than me. So when we finished singing, and they were the ones cheering the loudest, I was really surprised, but it was nice of them. After that I was free until 3 when it was over. Me and some of my friends rushed around to get ride of all of our food tickets, and to buy some more stuff, but all I ended up getting was this really good coffee, chocolate, and butter square thing, it was really good and got me hyper. So it was a very fun day, and I have more performances! Next on is this coming Thursday.

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New Blog

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Performances

It is almost that time of year. You got it. CHRISTMAS! And this Christmas is going to be very busy for me and some of my friends. As the title indicates, I am going to be performing! Well, three times to be exact. Once next Saturday at the Christmas Bazaar, a Christmas shopping/performing day, it is really fun, as you can read in my last year's blog. During that time I will play a couple Christmas Carols on my Saxophone and sing a song with my whole family called "Merry Christmas with Love". After that, we are performing, as a choir, at a very famous hotel in Chengdu, the Intercontinental Hotel. We will be singing a few songs, but the only one that I know of right now is a song called "Peaceful" by Teresa Jennings. Then, the last performance is on December the 3rd, where one of my friends and I will be playing a duet of Saxophone and Piano, "Silent Night" and "Deck the Halls".
After that, I get to relax and watch other performances such as our English's teacher's version of Snow White which the people in our school are acting out. Last year he did a new version of Cinderella, which was really funny so I am looking forward to this year's performance.
So, going to be very busy practicing until December 3rd, so I hope we don't have as much homework as we have been having over the past few days!

Fall Festival

The fall festival was a couple weeks ago, and I was wrong, it wasn't that much fun. Well, I guess it was for little kids, but still.
I really liked my costume, and a lot of my class mates and the parents and teachers knew who I was. I have the picture of my costume on my Picasa website.

Future Pictures

Just thought I should tell you, for future pictures for posts, you can just scroll down on the blog page and click on the "Picasa Links for Blogs: View My Gallery". That is the easiest way for me to post pictures. If there is any pictures to go with a post, I will write
Picture
At the bottom of the post, and it will be in the small size, so don't miss it!
And Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Ear Piercing

By reading the title you can probably guess what happened, but I will tell you anyway. I got my ears pierced! Now I have dark green studs attached to my ears. We had to walk a long way around ChengDu before we could actually find a place, and I was starting to think I wouldn't have to get my ears pierced. Finally, we walked into a place that told us there was a place that pierced ears right next door! Right about then I started getting freaked out, and when the lady took out the piercing gun and put the studs in I wanted to run right out of there. Here I will put my thought process during the piercing:

1. Before she put it in: Ow, ow, ow, this is going to hurt so bad!!!!
2. After she put it in: Hey, that didn't hurt as much as I thought it would.
3. As she was putting it in the other ear: Ow, the other ear feels like it is on fire! This is going to hurt!!!!
4. After she was all done: Ok, it feels like both my ears are on fire now.
5. The next 10 min: Ow, ow, ow, ow, OW! Its stinging!
6. After 10 min: Ok, doesn't hurt anymore, I over reacted... a lot.
7. Now: YAY! I got my ears pierced!

So that was basically my thought process about the whole thing. Now I have to wear these dark green studs for about 2 months before I can take them out. I am so happy I finally did this! I chickened out the last few times, but this time I actually did it!

Halloween Costume

As you know Halloween is this month so I am starting to find things for Halloween costumes. It is not that I like Halloween so much that I am getting ready 3 weeks early, it is just that our school has a costume party on the 21st and there is a lot of pressure to get a good costume.
Last year I had a horrible time as a Cowgirl, which is not very surprising, cause I did not know what style everyone else would be dressed as. But this year, everything is going to be different.
As I was singing along with my Phantom of the Opera songs (which I do quite often for some reason), it struck me that I could dress up as the Phantom! All I needed was a mask, cape, and a suit, so I got to work right away. The suit was easy to find, I just used my dad's, one of his dress shirts and my black pants. And I found the mask by a stroke of luck when we were out shopping. We were walking through one of those shops that sells everything, and we saw a paper mask! It was not the Phantom mask, but since it was paper we bought. When we got home I cut it just right, and my dad added a strap to it. I put on the mask and suit and looked into the mirror. I looked just like the Phantom, except for the long hair of course. Now all I need is a cape, I have not found that yet, but my mom has this idea of having one made at a seamstress. All we need then is the black material.
Wish me luck!