School – Vincent's Blog

District band auditions is simply an audition to get into the Region Band. The first round was on Saturday, November 9 at West Ridge. There was definitely an air of nervousness in the room of 44 or 42 clarinets. Mostly we just sat and listened to the others play, and it took about 3 hours. I knew there were some minor mistakes and certain tone quality problems but I still think I did fine.
I got 11th place, which was about 8 place better than what I thought I would get. Only the top 12 gets to advance, which is November 16, 2013(today). It seemed almost impossible to get to the top ten; the others were extremely experienced. I think I did fine and got 28th place, but I think its good score. Anyways, I will still come back next year.

I think that we use the Ipad daily in class, for projects and tests. Plus, its a lot easier and saves paper. From time to time, there are just some technical issues that we can’t solve; For example: this morning, in Texas history, Mr.Bailey tried to let us take a learning check on Skyward. There were two major problems, one is that more than half of the class forgot their passwords(not me, after a few tries of course) so it took about 10 minutes to get everyone on skyward. Problem two, the learning check wasn’t even on Skyward. Mr.Bailey saw it on his computer and remembered to press the “save” button but not on our Ipads, which is very weird. So, in the end, we just did it on paper though I prefer to do it on the Ipads. Even thought it’s not always problem-free but I think it’s still useful in school.
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