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friday we left for south carolina for my BIG AUDITION(!!) at furman, saturday at 10.
about 5-6 hours into the trip, we get a call telling us that auditions may be cancelled due to bad weather.
we call the furman music department, and sure enough:
all auditions are off they might be getting two whole inches of snow.
while this may not seem like a very daunting forecast to most people, south carolina is NOT prepared to deal with snow, resulting in icy roads, and pretty dangerous driving conditions. ack.
all the preparation, the worrying, the practicing, the DRIVING, for nothing. if the school had shown just a bit of foresight or preparation, maybe we wouldn't have bothered coming. they didn't even call us 24 hours before the audition! so frustrating. and then the person i talked to on the phone was not the least bit apologetic, compromising, anything. this school is REALLY starting to lose its charm.
so here we are, four hours from this school and faced with a decision: go back home? keep going? make a trip out of it anyway?
we decided to go to atlanta, and even though this brought the driving time to eleven hours, it was a much better prospect, as far as i'm concerned, than turning around and going home. i love my uncles, and i love atlanta: so here we are.
usually, trips to atlanta consist of lots of going out, shopping, eating in exciting restaurants, etc. however, this bad weather was not contained simply to south carolina. i woke up this morning to
ICICLES
my uncle and his dog in the snow-like ice
well, almost snow. it's more like ice. but it's still so exciting for me! we're not one of those families that take trips out to colorado or vermont or wherever for skiing and snowboarding, so the last time i saw snow was winter of '93/94...when i was seven.
i turned into a little kid again. my dad and i went on a walk this morning (my uncles live right across the street from the atlanta zoo and this huge beautiful park) and i couldn't stop making "snowballs" and "snowmen" and taking off my gloves and generally acting like an idiot. it ruled.
aside from that walk and another one later this evening (a litle more slippery and treacherous) we've been inside watching their tv, cooking, eating, and i think we'll be playing board games soon and possibly some violin-viola playing (my uncle has been playing violin for over a year now). this is all too wholesome and wonderful, i can't take it.
i'm still disappointed about the audition, though. i could send in a tape or come up next weekend, it's all just so inconvenient. oh well, at least i got a mini-vacation out of it, i think i needed it. all of this school and scholarship stuff is starting to get to me, plus home repairs and other issues i'd just rather not think about or deal with ever. yeah. so i hope we make it home safely and everything, sorry for the long update! i hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
about 5-6 hours into the trip, we get a call telling us that auditions may be cancelled due to bad weather.
we call the furman music department, and sure enough:
all auditions are off they might be getting two whole inches of snow.
while this may not seem like a very daunting forecast to most people, south carolina is NOT prepared to deal with snow, resulting in icy roads, and pretty dangerous driving conditions. ack.
all the preparation, the worrying, the practicing, the DRIVING, for nothing. if the school had shown just a bit of foresight or preparation, maybe we wouldn't have bothered coming. they didn't even call us 24 hours before the audition! so frustrating. and then the person i talked to on the phone was not the least bit apologetic, compromising, anything. this school is REALLY starting to lose its charm.
so here we are, four hours from this school and faced with a decision: go back home? keep going? make a trip out of it anyway?
we decided to go to atlanta, and even though this brought the driving time to eleven hours, it was a much better prospect, as far as i'm concerned, than turning around and going home. i love my uncles, and i love atlanta: so here we are.
usually, trips to atlanta consist of lots of going out, shopping, eating in exciting restaurants, etc. however, this bad weather was not contained simply to south carolina. i woke up this morning to
ICICLES
my uncle and his dog in the snow-like ice
well, almost snow. it's more like ice. but it's still so exciting for me! we're not one of those families that take trips out to colorado or vermont or wherever for skiing and snowboarding, so the last time i saw snow was winter of '93/94...when i was seven.
i turned into a little kid again. my dad and i went on a walk this morning (my uncles live right across the street from the atlanta zoo and this huge beautiful park) and i couldn't stop making "snowballs" and "snowmen" and taking off my gloves and generally acting like an idiot. it ruled.
aside from that walk and another one later this evening (a litle more slippery and treacherous) we've been inside watching their tv, cooking, eating, and i think we'll be playing board games soon and possibly some violin-viola playing (my uncle has been playing violin for over a year now). this is all too wholesome and wonderful, i can't take it.
i'm still disappointed about the audition, though. i could send in a tape or come up next weekend, it's all just so inconvenient. oh well, at least i got a mini-vacation out of it, i think i needed it. all of this school and scholarship stuff is starting to get to me, plus home repairs and other issues i'd just rather not think about or deal with ever. yeah. so i hope we make it home safely and everything, sorry for the long update! i hope you all have a wonderful weekend.