#orchestra.

Oh my god. The worst thing ever happened. So I started tuning and then out of nowhere, BAM. My string...snapped and totally popped out. It completely broke off. It was "D" string. D: Violas have CGDA strings, and my "D" one broke, which absolutely SUCKS because it's my most important string. Practically all my notes are on the "D" string. 

Dude, I panicked. My string broke right before our performance. And it also sucks because the impact of my string breaking off my bridge was soooo intense, all of my other string got out of tune as well. Wth....I think it was the penny i pick up earlier that day because it was tails up. D: Bad luck man. 

Ms. Jowe, almost everyday I rant and complain about how much I hate you. With a passion, almost. Immediately as soon as I walk out of the orchestra room, I whine over to my friend, Emilie and I start talking smack. You're an OKAY Notables teacher. I wish you'd give us more of a variety of song choices. The ones you choose are so disgusting, I hate them. But for orchestra, you are terrible.

Don't even get me started omg. Your seating arrangement is so unorganized, it's ridiculousness. FIRST OF ALL, cellos are suppose to be seated NEAR the violas. It's really idiotic to place them near the first violins. "Cellos need to be able to hear the first violins." It's so stupid, why on earth would you place them there. The set-up has always been Firsts, Seconds, Violas, Cello, and Bass to the side. Once a concert comes along, they have to move back near the violas, and then they're going to be so used to being with the firsts, and they wont be able to hear them anymore. It's just going to throw off everything. It's not going to make anything better.

Also, you put the back players in the front. That's the stupidest thing you can ever do. There's a reason why they're in the back. It's because they aren't as good as the leaders up front. They're in the back so that you can hear them less. It's their fault if they don't practice, but still. You don't put the weaker people in the front. That'll just make us sound even more horrible. 

I hate how you always combined us with the freshmen orchestra. We're advanced, there's a reason why we have two separate orchestras. And then when you want to combined us, all the seating is off too. Everything is so unorganized, it's pitiful. Because not only do we sound bad, we look pretty bad too. I just hate hate hate how you run this class. I honestly think you have no idea what you're doing.

I brought my viola home for the break off and I started practicing some old music I found two years ago. Orchestra was the shit back then, when we still had Mr. Song as our conductor. We played some pretty challenging, legit classical music, from Mozart and Tchaikovsky, and playing it gave back so many memories. 

In 9th grade, I was one of the four freshmen that were transferred into the Advanced Orchestra, while most stayed in Freshmen Orchestra. They needed more violas and I don't really know why, but Mr. Song chose me to be in the Advanced one. And it was so fun. Everyone was so talented at their own instrument: violin, bass, cello, piano, etc. That was my first year being in high school orchestra and it was the best.

I was also in a little smaller group of Chamber Orchestra, where the really advanced musicians played all four parts of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. We had out of school practices at night, from 7 to 9 pm, and we were pretty successful. I don't know, orchestra isn't the same as it was two years ago. I used to considered orchestra my second family, because everyone was so cool, friendly, gifted, and close.