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MY SOLO COMPETITION IS IN THREE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am soooo nervous...... I did it last year, and I was sooooooosooooosooooo nervous, and I hit a wrong note in my cadenza, and I nearly blew the second trill section -- I hope I do better this year! There are four adjudicators, all sitting at this table with their little comment sheets, and it's in this big cathedral, so awesome acoustics (only thing is, your mistakes are beyond crystal clear), and you stand up and play your piece with your accompanist. My teacher, Amy Gudorf, who is awesome, is going to try to come see me play, because this has been really important, since the people who won last year can't win this year, and I'm probably better than most of the contestants, so I'm psyched and freaked at the same time.

I am totally on my toes about Jasmin coming up! I feel like I can't tell anyone, for fear of jinxing the trip. I almost let it slip to my whole drama class! We were doing improv, and the only thing I could think of at the moment, (we had just had a scene about cow pies coming out of an ATM!) was that "My BFF is coming up this summer." I'm a little worried that Garik saw through it, because I intended it to be a bombshell sometime in Febuary or March or April, to get everyone excited.

I've thinking of what we could do; Veronica, my stepmom, says that we can spend the week at our vacation house on Whidbey, so we can go to Lone Lake, Goss Lake, Double Bluff, and Holmes Harbor for swimming, Castle Park, Putney Woods, and, of course, the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), the Pacific Science Center, Seattle Center, Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle Aquarium, Future of Flight Museum, and maybe the Children's Museum. We might even be able to sleep in the tent in the backyard! Just a thought, though, haven't run THAT by Veronica. We'll probably just sleep in my room. It's not anything like my real room, it's all clean and white and extraordinarily neat (unlike my real room, which is passable, but definitely not going to win any awards, unlike Jaccquelyn's).

Since it's summer, I probably won't get to introduce Jaz to many people; alot of people at my school come up to Whidbey for vacation, but I probably won't see them. I volunteer at HOPE all summer long, too. I'm going to talk to Miriam and Denise - maybe Jasmin could help one time? After all, it's only on Tuesdays! Of course, she might not be able too, 'cause there's emergency procedures, student safety, etc. Plus, I don't think Jasmin has ever tacked up or groomed a horse, much less sidewalked a student!

GTG,
Natasha