Yet another jam-packed weeeeeeekend woooooo

Because life is simply not intense enough during the week.

.....aaaaaaand because I don't have any philosophical shturf to talk about, I'll just have to give you one of my drop-dead interesting-as-usual life updates. Yay!

Sooooo, day-by-day blow-by-blow weekend account. Because the week was actually pretty boring by my standards (where n is the number of new, exciting, and/or surprising things that caused me to drastically whack out my schedule and/or go out of my way to make people happy; n is less than 10). yaaaahhh

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Friday first. This was intense. The d of music asked me last week whether or not I could play the EPIC RACHMANINOFF in chapel. I was like, "yeah, sure, when?" and he's like, "well, we're going to have some pretty full services and a field trip from here on, so how about next week?"

lol

Well, long story short, I toiled and tear'd and sweated over the piece and I finished it well in time. Rollin' with my ski gloves in the morning even though it was sunny outside, and then bam! here we go. Chapel in the afternoon, me with the choir walking slowly down the aisle, and then Hutton bs'ing about my awesomeness (what can I say? ;) ) and then I was once again seated in front of the same piano. Only this time, I had one chance. In front of the whole of Ridley...

You know those performances that turn into a blur and you don't remember any of it? Well, this wasn't one. I ended up living every moment in HD technicolour widescreen detail, leg shakings included. But everyone loved it. And it was by far my best rendition.... next up (Joe is a hater now) the Revolutionary Étude by Chopin :D

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Saturday we went debating in a random school in Toronto. The debating itself was fun but kinda average. Partly because I didn't like the style (cross-ex) and turns out I was reasonably lank avs at it, but also.... nevermind, actually, it was a pretty legit tournament.

A far more interesting thing was we were graced with the companionship of Yuri (not the Call of Duty character!), a legit product of Ukrainian immigration, and he told us a whole lot about Slavic heritage then we knew before... even me. I'm actually a terrible Slav :D

So, we found out interesting things. Did you know that whether a Slavic language uses the Cyrillic or the Latin alphabet is determined by what church "invaded" them first, between the (Greek) Orthodox and Roman Catholic? Also, Hungarian is the world's most isolated language. It is most similar to Sanskrit due to the cadences, and less similar than average to English, Russian, and German. Also, Hungarians hate Russians, as well as anyone who they suspect is speaking Russian, for example Belarusians, Ukrainians, and other Iron-curtainians.

Fun facts for the day :D

oh yeah, and there was also a dance. Which was pretty legit, because it wasn't as lewd as the last one :D and I wasn't threatened with rape or alcohol :D

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And finally, today/yesterday. Sunday! wooo! Cadet Band in the Toronto Santa Claus Parade (beats me why, it's the 21st of Novemeber!) with out tiny band, tiny (^kraaaw!^) drum corps, and dented mace.... I didn't get any pictures of us like marching and stuff because I was too busy playing, but I did get some beforehand...

I think I have found my long-lost clone brother...

The tiiiiiiirred bus on the way home... wooooo!

Damn, one thing I'm definitely gonna miss is the wings and pizza. But mostly wings, because I'm pretty sure you don't get sawcy-ass buffalo wings quite like that in such abundance in SA... ah well.

My back and shoulders were absolutely killing me by the end of it... I think we marched for like 4 hours straight, which was pretty intense. We even managed to get on national television, and I was in the front row of the drum corps!

I hope you're proud of me, momma! :D

EDIT: found a video, thanks Jess! We're at round about 1:40

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15 days left!!!!! ZOMG!!!!! Must. do. Canadian. Stuff!