Land Down Under

Adventures in Borrowed-violin World

So everyone knows how I've been telling Liz (the owner of the borrowed violin) for about 2 weeks now that her strings were going to pop during the show so she needs to buy new ones? Yeah. Well, they did. Actually, they popped Friday night about half an hour before the show started, which created a large panic to find something for me to play on. Another girl was kind enough to trust me with her ancient, expensive violin. It had a wonderful sound, and was good to play on, except that it takes a while of playing on a violin to get used to it, so that didn't really happen until Act 2. But I was definitely happy to play on that one. Then on Saturday morning (okay, afternoon. We all know I don't get up until after noon anyway) I had to go downtown and buy a whole new set of strings for this violin that's not mine. At least I'll be getting reimbursed for them. I was pretty impressed: the strings were originally $95 for the whole set, and I only paid $23.75. They're German strings, and had a very good, loud, clear tone. Something in that violin is rattling though. I think it comes from not cleaning it. I don't know. Anyway, I put the strings on, tuned it, played a bit, tuned some more, and left them to stretch for a few hours. Before the show, I tuned and played for a long time, expecting them to wear in at any moment. And I was still tuning between every song because they took a long time to stretch. But my favorite song to play, More I Cannot Wish You, sounded GREAT. By the end, the violin had worn in the strings. Overall, the show was really fun. I'm sad that Williams doesn't do musicals. They were the best part of high school.

The large egg on my head is doing a bit better, although it's less red and more bruised now. On Friday night a bunch of us were hanging out in Steve's room, and I left to go to the bathroom, and when I shut the door I wasn't paying attention, and the doorframe all of a sudden punched me in the forehead. Talk about painful. There was a large cracking noise and an immediate lump. I'm still not sure what made the crack noise-- my head breaking or the doorframe. Thank goodness for makeup that can cover it!!

Last night was the after party, which was pretty fun. Mel's friend Libby came to the show, so she hung out with us at the after party too. Actually, she and I hung out at the after party cuz Mel and Boosh flitted about the room. The music was so loud I had to scream to say anything, so I ended up kind of hoarse at the end of the night.

Oh, I almost forgot! Mel and I bought really cute sundresses on Friday for the River Cruise on September 1st. Mine's the same color as my new bathingsuit-- a kind of deep orangy color, with flowers on it. Mel's is green. They looked really good on, and they're very summery, so we figured they'd be useful when we go to Cairns. We're going to book plane tickets for that today, when Boosh and Mel come back from eating lunch with their parents. We still are looking for a fourth person to go, since Steve isn't coming....I'd rather not be a third wheel if possible. Does anyone wanna come with us?

Robyn got her plane tickets to come visit me!!!! She'll be here the last week I'm here, in November. I hope I don't have exams then....we could go sightseeing around Victoria. Exciting!

posted by Christina @ 1:01 PM