Thursday, February 28, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Playing tests
So I am in the drum section for my high school I play the quad drums in the marching band. My teacher says that I am really good. Anyways at the beginning of the year my class had a "playing test" where we get a sheet of music and than played it some time during the next week. After that test I was technically deemed third chair but was really fourth (there were two first chairs). This being a new semester and all we had another playing test for chairs (on the snare drum). We got it last Monday and we played it today. I thought I did really bad because I went second to last and it didn't sound very much like anyone else (including B-rad [first chair] and Chuck [same]) so I was really worried. After we are all done Mrs. Stallman said "Kenji, you got all the rhythms perfect and if you would have done all the dynamics (loud, soft) better than you would have gotten 100. Everyone else had some tempo problems and the same problems with dynamics..." She than went on to talk about the trumpets and blah blah blah. So I go up to her after class and she said that I got a 96 out of 100. Chuck got a 94 and I don't know about everyone else but she said I am first chair!!! She is giving people a chance to try again and do better so I hope Tamine (previously "second" chair) doesn't do better than me on her second try, because I think she was the best out of everyone else anyway...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Chandler Mackenzie?
I'm sure that some of you have been wondering why I go by this name. Well last year there was this kid named Dallis(sp*) and he was... well he was dumb as a rock. He couldn't remember my name even though it was on the board and people were yelling it to him but he just had to call on me. One day he called me Chandler. Really close, I know. He started getting better and called me Mckenzie the very next day. So that is the origination of "Chandler Mackenzie."
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Class of 2010
My World History teacher, Mr. Miller, introduced this idea to us today. He wants us all (class of 2010 ) to shave our heads. This all started as a joke about global warming (we do that a lot). He just wanted us to shave our heads but knowing Miller it had to go farther than that.
At Orting High the seniors go on a trip every year to someplace or another. They have been known to raise lots of money and go on a cruise to the carribean or something like that. But it has been getting really lame as of late. This year they want to go to wildwaves. For those of you who don't know what that is it is kind of like Cherry Hill. Last year they went all out and went paintballing. Wow. Miller is kind of like the class of 2010 in charge guy and he wants us to do something really cool like spend a week in Paris. So he came up with this idea.
In the spirit of making us all bald he thinks we could make lots and lots of money for making us all bald. His idea is as follows.
1. Send letters talking about how our class wants to make a statement and that we are raising money to go to the moon or whatever to huge compinies like Coca-Cola and hope that they will sponsor us.
2. Make t-shirts with our sponsors logoon the back, a bald person with a globe painted on their head and some saying about we care more about our planet than our hair or something like that (If you have any ideas for it)on the front.
3. Make a huge statement by shaving the heads of [most] every sophomore in our school.
4. Make trips to hosptals and visit bald kimo kids and giving them wigs made of the hair.
Of course it would be more detailed than that and I'm sure that the news would be involved at least state wide and maybe we could even get on Opera.
Almost every Sophomore was talking about this today. A lot of the girls are saying that they wouldn't want to shave their hair, but they didn't hear it from Miller himself. I talked to him after class and he said that he would talk to our principal the Anti-Christ and see if we could have a class meeting tomorrow so he can have a chance to explain it to everybody. I personally think it would be a great idea.
At Orting High the seniors go on a trip every year to someplace or another. They have been known to raise lots of money and go on a cruise to the carribean or something like that. But it has been getting really lame as of late. This year they want to go to wildwaves. For those of you who don't know what that is it is kind of like Cherry Hill. Last year they went all out and went paintballing. Wow. Miller is kind of like the class of 2010 in charge guy and he wants us to do something really cool like spend a week in Paris. So he came up with this idea.
In the spirit of making us all bald he thinks we could make lots and lots of money for making us all bald. His idea is as follows.
1. Send letters talking about how our class wants to make a statement and that we are raising money to go to the moon or whatever to huge compinies like Coca-Cola and hope that they will sponsor us.
2. Make t-shirts with our sponsors logoon the back, a bald person with a globe painted on their head and some saying about we care more about our planet than our hair or something like that (If you have any ideas for it)on the front.
3. Make a huge statement by shaving the heads of [most] every sophomore in our school.
4. Make trips to hosptals and visit bald kimo kids and giving them wigs made of the hair.
Of course it would be more detailed than that and I'm sure that the news would be involved at least state wide and maybe we could even get on Opera.
Almost every Sophomore was talking about this today. A lot of the girls are saying that they wouldn't want to shave their hair, but they didn't hear it from Miller himself. I talked to him after class and he said that he would talk to our principal the Anti-Christ and see if we could have a class meeting tomorrow so he can have a chance to explain it to everybody. I personally think it would be a great idea.
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