Marching Band Camp

Hello again.
Well, I still havent got my internet connection yet in my room. (arrrggghhh!)
First of all, Thank you guys so much for all the lovely emails. You have NO idea how much better that makes me feel :) They were awesome!

Well, I cant remember what I did in LA anymore. But all I can say is "Do not go to LA for more than 2 days" it is seriously seriously boring!
It is not a city that is worth going for like a week. Go to Las Vegas or San Francisco instead! There are much more to see in those 2 places than in LA!

But anyway, after getting to Purdue on Saturday early morning at about 8am. I had to quickly organize my bank (Purdue actaully has its own bank...) and my Student ID. I had to also go to Walmart to get stuff so that I could sleep on that day (as in I had to go get bedlinens and blanket and stuff). Coming back from Walmart, it was so hard! i had laundry basket full of stuff and it was sooo heavy! the walk from the bus stop to my apartment usually takes 15 min but it took me almost 1 hour. I had and still has some cuts and swallen bit across my both arms. It actually looks like I was trying to kill myself so many times or something.

Sunday night, I had an audition for the AAMB (All American Marching Band in Purdue). It was just a playing audition. The student leaders there were the nicese people around. The audition itself was alright. I think I did my best I could being nervous and not getting my music till the 1.5 week before the audition and all. We have to see how I go with it.

This one girl, Vicky, is the girl I met at the AAMB last night. She is actually senior at Purdue and she was born a day after I was. What an coincidence! She is one of the student leaders. and She could possibly be the head of the student leaders. who knows. As I didnt have a proper pair of shoes Vicky was nice enough to drive me to the Walmart at 10pm. We chatted fair bit and she dropped me off. We had an icecream on the way home as well. So last night I was quite happy that I think I found someone that I can properly talk to here in Purdue.

This moring, we started an rehearsal at 8:30 in the moring. It is going to be like that for the rest of the week I am assuming. I missed about 5 hours of rehearsal becasue i had to go do pre-orientation check in for exchange program, but after coming back to it, there were some intence training that I had to do.

The marching itself is so hard. There are all the movements and callouts that we have. It is so hard to think and do it immidiately after we were told. We were all so uncordinated. But suppose its the first day... No one can expect too much, I suppose. I dont know whether I can actually get into the marching band. but the experience i can get in this week would be something I could never experience in Japan or Australia. So I am thinking it is alright either way :)

The apartment that i am staying is alright. It is quite small considering there are three people living in there. Luckily, one of them hasnt turned up yet so it is wuite roomy here. There is nothing though, like microwave or anything. so I am kinda confused. All that was supplied was bed kitchen fridge desk and some closet. Thats about it. ah of course bathroom as well. very small bathroom though. So you can imagine what I had to buy at walmart on Saturday. EVERYTHING.

My roommate is a little chinese girl, coming from China. She doesnt speak very good english and she seems to be hanging around with her chinese friends a lot... So i dont think I can communicat/socialize with her too much... not really what i was expecting from my room mates but oh well!

That is all i can think of for now.
I am doing better than the last time i wrote my blog. Thanks to you guys :)

Love you heaps

Kumiko