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Camp is over.  It’s July 27th, which feels pretty strange—like half the summer is gone before it even got here.  As for last night’s performance, it went amazingly well.  I can’t remember any mistakes or errors.  It was a blast, and I think the audience enjoyed it.

Unfortunately, we had unforeseen technical difficulties.  We were being filmed for DVDs and (hopefully) TV broadcasting at a later date.  But as it turns out, the audio “hiccupped,” and come the end of the show, the tech crew didn’t have audio for a good portion of the footage.

So guess what?

We played it all again.  Maybe about a third of the show…probably less, but it felt like a lot.  We got out around 10:30.

But all in all, it was amazing.  We said lots of goodbyes and exchanged lots of email addresses.  The hardest part about leaving, for me, was realizing that I’d only started really hanging out with friends over the past two or three days…and we’d had a whole two weeks together.  Makes me wish I hadn’t waited so long to be sociable.

Overall FASA experience: awesome.

The viola section, minus a few.  We had a blast.

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We finished our first performance a few hours ago—and all told, it was pretty amazing.  We’d never run the whole thing straight through, but now that we’ve managed it with only minor problems, I think tomorrow night’s show will go smoothly.  It’s being filmed for television, so…it better go smoothly.

All the orchestra and band on stage for rehearsal.  We’ve been spending a lot of time in those seats lately!

Tuning up for the performance.

Micaela, Tinsley and I had way too much fun waiting to get on stage.

We tried a serious pose…

*epic fail*

I’m really looking forward to tomorrow night.  Seems strange that it’ll all be over—in one sense, this is the most exciting part of camp.  I guess I won’t miss playing for at least six hours a day, but it’ll be interesting adjusting back to “normal life.”

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…before the plunge into Week 2.  A few pictures from the past two days:

Going out to eat on Toni’s birthday.

Me and Toni.

I think she like her laptop…

Testing out the webcam on a bunch of willing victims.

We enjoyed eating unhealthy stuff.

We got ready for a performance…

…and we performed.

The totally rockin’ viola section!

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I think God makes families like puzzles.  One person winds up with a nice set of character qualities and few whopping quirks, and so the next one along is bound to fill in the blanks, so to speak.  Unfortunately, since Person #2 lacks in the areas that Person #1 excels, and vice versa…well, it gives rise to dilemmas.  But overall, I think it’s a pretty efficient system.

For example, look at a purely hypothetical situation:  If Person #2 is prone to inactivity because Person #1 has been given the rare gift of leadership and orginization, in the end everyone ends up happy because Person #2 enjoys relaxing while Person #1 enjoys having them out of her hair while she goes about her business.

And that’s what’s so awesome about big sisters.

Happy 19th birthday, Toni!  Love you!

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FASA is intense—orchestra in the mornings and afternoons, and classes all in between.  But intense music camps or no, nothing shall rob me of my reading.  Especially when it comes to Ted Dekker.

So.  How many places can one find to read Dekker at music camp?

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Day Two is complete!  Things are beginning to make more sense as everyone figures out what they’ll be doing in the days ahead—and, uh, some people still work on figuring it out.  I’m liking the new additions to camp this year, particularly the technique class.  I’m an incredibly un-technical player, probably due to being largely self-taught.

This is “my” seat.  As you can tell, I’m very happy there.

Behold, the string orchestra!  This is where we spend a good portion of the day.

Viola power.

And here’s the whole group of us (plus a random neighbor kid on the left), being wild as usual.  We’re having a fun time.

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I love the way little children phrase things—absolutely adorable.  The above was from four-year-old Jennifer (who thinks five minutes is way too many).  We’ve got quite a handful of kids running around this place, totaling to nine ages twelve and under.  Throw in Mother May I, a staircase, and few thousand dollars worth of stringed instruments, and we’re in for some excitement!

Tonight concludes our first day of camp, which was really only an introduction to what we’ll be doing for the next two weeks.  I’m pretty excited, myself.  The orchestra has around fifty members total, and a whopping twelve violas.  Playing in a “viola section” is absolutely foreign to me; usually, I am the “viola section.”

At check-in, we ran into two familiar faces:  Taylor and Hailey from HSB, along with several of their friends!  It was fun having a real, live person to fit to the name—and it’s also nice knowing someone when the whole campus of David Lipscomb is filled with strangers.  Taylor and Hailey, by the way, are super sweet.  Y’all should go over and say hello.

And now, we’re back at home.  I’m sitting in the rocker listening to the kids get ready for bed and contemplating how I’ll extricate myself from the maze of mattresses on the floor.  Hm…

…this could be a problem.

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Greetings, readers!  Lately, my life is one long car trip.  We’re in Dallas again, at our customary pit stop before making the long drive to Nashville for the Annie Moses Band music camp.  For the first time in a long while, I’ll be in the car for above ten hours with a whole rabble of siblings scattered in the backseat.  Given the noise level on the four-hour trip this far…well, I’m not too excited about tomorrow.   Ah, well—I love my earbuds.

Concerning the lack of pictures around here, we’ve been experiencing great camera troubles of late.  The lovely Canons I used for the graduation shoots had to be returned to their owner (oh, the tragedy), and so I was left with a broken Kodak camera and Toni’s itsy-bitsy point-and-shoot that takes nasty-looking pictures.  But oh, glorious day—Toni has decided to invest her graduation funds in a Canon EOS 50D, and I am completely thrilled.  Hopefully it’ll arrive during camp, and we’ll be able to make use of it.

Lastly, my mother has started a WordPress for the sake of chronicling our adventures at camp—and hopefully beyond.  So if you have a moment, head over and say hello!

Next post will be from Tennessee.  See you there!

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