So, at Bowdoin I have been keeping pretty busy. Since the last time I posted I've been in two band concerts, one choir concert and a movie. The first band concert was pretty exciting, the power went out right before we were supposed to go on stage so we had to wait another half an hour while they figured out how to get the electric piano offstage and fit the grand piano onstage with everything else. It all worked out in the end and it was a cool performance, we had a tenor singing a few pieces with us and it went really well. Then, last weekend on Saturday I played the wind chimes for a piece that the chamber choir was singing. It's called Cloudburst by Eric Whitacre and it's a really cool piece. I really wanted to play the thundersheet, but my part was just as important!! The next day we had another band performance, this time we performed with a very famous trombonist, Ron Baron, he is the retired principle trombonist from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and extremely amazing, it was a good thing I didn't have to play much in his pieces so I could listen to him.
This same weekend one of my floormates decided to enter in the 48 hour film festival in which he and a group of people had to put together a film in 48 hours. I was part of that group of people, it was a lot of fun. Friday night we collaborated and worked with the guidelines we had been given and tried to figure out what our movie was going to be about and then the next two days we filmed around everyone's schedule, which really meant that we did a lot of filming at night. The movie ended up being about Russians supposedly trying to steal the Bowdoin endowment...oh no!! So Randy Nichols, our head of security called in a secret agent spy person (Elly, another adopted roommate from Seattle) to make sure that the Russians wouldn't get ahold of it. It's pretty cool and has a twist at the end that I'm not going to ruin, partially because I still haven't seen the whole thing and I don't really know what happens. I was a Russian spy that ended up getting killed by a really huge book in our library. It was a lot of fun!!
Some other fun stuff that has happened: We have brought two new roommates into our humble abode, Elly (the spy) and Chris, who plays the saxaphone and is in my music theory class. They're pretty cool and we have a lot of fun with them. Chris is signed up with zipcar, so the other weekend we rented one and went into Freeport for a day of fun. I bought a pair of heavy duty L.L. Bean snow boots that I am really excited to wear and really excited for snow!! On the way back from Freeport, we stopped at a bread bakery and somehow managed to buy four loaves of bread. I bought sourdough, Chris got a Mexican bean, Hannah got a fruit dessert bread and Jade got an herb ciabatta. That night we invited our whole group of twelve people over and had a fabulous bread party. This was during parents weekend, and the last thing we'd done the day before was stop in at goodwill to just wander around, I sat in the most wonderful chair ever and decided that we had to have it, so the next day Mary's dad drove us back out there and we bought the chair for only thirty dollars and brought it back to our room. Everyone loves it, we've named it Basil, as in Basil from Fawlty Towers and though he's amazing, he causes a little bit of strife because it's always a race to see who can get to him first. 
Here's a picture of Elly as the secret agent sitting in Basil.
Here's a picture of Elly as the secret agent sitting in Basil. Life's been pretty good, classes are difficult, but the semester's almost over and then it's on to new and exciting classes. Right now though, my homework is calling my name.
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