Friday.

It seems like I started college only a couple days ago, but really it's been almost two weeks! Oh how time flies when you are slowly collecting more stories to tell. 

And speaking of stories....

It was a warm late afternoon, the sunset smiling majestically as always as I made my way over to Helaman  Fields where I had heard there were shenanigans going down. Sure enough, when I arrived there were plenty of awesome people throwing around those wonderful 175 gram really sweet frisbees that BYU makes out of recycled plastic bottles, so I did not hesitate in joining in. Soon, the party was in full swing and we were playing some pretty cool getting-to-know-you games, and then there was a dance. Naturally I danced for a little bit, but then I saw a group of people playing ultimate, and that definitely takes priority over dancing. I soon joined in and we had an awesome game going on. I nailed some pretty sweet tricky tosses right to people in the endzone, and I even caught some really tricky tosses to catch. Anyway, I was really into the game, and so I was running forward to catch a frisbee that had been thrown in my direction. I stretched out my arm and snatched it from the air and then tried to make my feet stop moving. Unfortunately, the grass was wet, and my shoes were the not of the most frictitious footwear variety, so I successfully stopped my upper body, but my feet kept right on going. I fell backwards, thrusting out my arm at an awkward angle to catch myself, and then pop. My arm didn't feel so good. Before I worried about that though I switched the frisbee to my left hand and tossed it to an open team mate. After that I went over to my paramedics and they relocated my dislocated shoulder, and all was well. But while it lasted the dislocated shoulder felt pretty strange. 

Anyway, after all that I came home. After being home for about five minutes there came a knock at the door. I answered it and who was there, but Preston Sharp! My friend whom I haven't seen in about 7 years. Anyway, he was just going door to door with a group of other kids playing "Bigger or Better" which is an awesome game, by the way, and it was super random and awesome. 

After that Eva and Taylor came over to make sure my arm was okay, and then we went over to their apartment because we were going to watch a movie or something, but then we ended up just talking until 1:29 in the morning. This is my first time in college going to bed after 1. Sad. 

I'm not sure how exciting those stories were for you, but I like them, so I wrote them down. 

Gradumacationation.

In memory of my Graduation today, I shall share a short story:

When my mother was in high school she was a straight A student. One day, she was feeling frustrated that some students got paid by their parents to keep their grades even at a B level, and she didn't get paid for straight A's! So, she explained the situation to my grandma and stated that she should get paid to keep her grades up. My grandmother simply responded, "Okay, you can have a dollar for every B that you get." 

Needless to say, my mom got no money because she liked her 4.0 GPA. Good story, eh?

Anyway, I graduated. I got a cute little piece of paper with ink on it and a yellow rope and a funny hat with a fuzzy thing hanging off of it. I even got to play dress up and wear a blue sheet and walk across a red carpet while old people whom I don't know shook my hand, and then I got a picture with my hero, the high school principal. It was extra special because everybody else did it too! 

That last paragraph was really sardonic, but I don't actually feel that negatively about it, I just wanted to write a sardonic paragraph about graduation because that's fun. Truth be told, graduation was a big moment, and pretty exciting! It symbolizes the transition between blah and blah, and I really like rubber duckies, and MC's speech was pretty funny. I don't feel like writing anything super in depth right now, but let's just say that high school was great. Oh, also playing in the orchestra at graduation was really fun. And I love the people who graduated with me, because they just make my life a joy. Thank you to everybody who has helped me to make it this far; I love you all a lot. 

So... It Has Come To This

The End.

For truly. I just performed in my very last Percussion concert ever. With Timpview, anyway.
And it was fun, because I somehow managed to weasel my way into playing in nearly every song!

First I played in Bien Sobroso, which was a party, and then I played a happy little solo (I wasn't aware that I was supposed to play a solo until today, so I hadn't practiced it in quite a while, and didn't really do very well, but that's okay. I had fun.) After that I played in Slavonic Dance, which I got the music for 2 days ago, and I still managed to play pretty well. I'm proud of myself. Then I played in the Bells, and then Why Not, which I've had the music for for four forevers, so they were easy, but still really fun. Then everybody got to play in Mo Java, which basically means we had a grand old time.

Oh, life is grand when all you have to do is wander around and hit stuff.

Symphonic Tour Number the Last

The itinerary:


Monday, April 2 

7:30am  Everyone please help load the trailer (chairs, stands, percussion, heavy metal)

8:05am  GO TO CLASS!!!
Yeah, right........

12:20pm  Load buses

12:40pm  Meeting in bandroom (have your  itinerary on you and be ready to name everyone in SB)

12:50pm  Leave Timpview, sack lunch from home

2:30pm  Arrive Wellington; rest stop at park (snacks?)

3:00pm  Leave Wellington

5:00pm  Arrive Moab; dinner ($)

5:45pm  Arrive Grand CountyHigh School; section rehearsals

7:00pm  Full rehearsal

8:30pm  Meeting (snacks?)

9:30pm  Leave Moab

10:30pm  Arrive in Monticello; Check in at Inn at the Canyons 435.487.2458

11:30pm  Lights Out    

Tuesday, March 29 

7:00am  UP!

7:45am  Leave the motel; walk to the temple
It was soooo windy and freezing cold, so a very nice man let us into the church next to the temple and we ate in there.

8:00am  Arrive Monticello Temple; Breakfast (P)

8:30am  Leave the Temple, walk to MHS

8:45am  Meet the equipment truck at Monticello HS

9:00am  Clinic with Mr. Erickson

10:30am  Combined rehearsal with Monticello HS

11:15am  Leave Monticello; sack lunch (P)

11:45noon Arrive Blanding; Tour Edge of the Cedars State Park
Fun stuff

1:00pm  Leave Blanding

2:00pm  Arrive Goosenecks State Park
Wonderful place.

2:15pm  Leave Goosenecks

3:00pm  Arrive Montezuma Creek; rehearsal at Whitehorse HS

4:00pm  Combined rehearsal with Whitehorse Band
They were so very cool. I miss them.

5:30pm  Dinner (P) with Whitehorse students 

7:00pm  Leave Montezuma Creek

8:30pm  Arrive Monticello; attend "Wassermusik" recital
We went swimming.

10:30pm  In rooms

11:30pm  Lights Out

Wednesday, March 30

6:30am  Augen aufmachen!

7:15am  Leave Monticello

7:45am  Breakfast at Wilson Arch (P)
We didn't eat there, but it was a wonderful arch.

8:30am  Arrive Hole in the Rock House

9:00am  Leave Hole in the Rock

10:15pm  Arrive Green River; rest stop

10:45pm  Leave Green River

11:45noon Arrive Price; Lunch ($)

12:30pm  Leave Price

1:45pm  Arrive Maple Mountain HS; change into black

2:30pm  Symphonic Band warm up

3:00pm  Symphonic Band performance; Concert Band listens
I think we did well. :)

3:30pm  Both bands listen to Provo

4:00pm  Concert Band warm up; Symphonic Band listens to Orem

4:30pm  Concert Band performance; Symphonic Band listens

5:00pm  both bands load buses; both bands leave Maple Mountain HS

6:00pm  both bands arrive Timpview HS














I am going to miss band a ridiculous amount. This tour was so fun! And basically it just made me amazingly happy to be with my awesome and wonderful band friends. Especially Asher, Nate, Kate, Cami, Wendy, Mary, Allison, Macy, Ree, Nick, Christian, Kent, Bao, Etc... 


And playing frisbee with Joseph and Josh and people was awesome. And me and Ree chilling whilst the band rehearsed Elsa's, exactly like last year (we even talked about the same exact things.) And I enjoyed the bus rides, where we listened to Mr. Tippetts tell us stories for hours, and I told riddles to Cami and Nate and laughed to myself as they figured them out. And the good weather (well, mostly good weather) and just the wonderful happiness that band brings. 


And of course game night was glorious. Playing Indian Attack was absolutely classic. Oh band, how I shall miss thee. What a wonderful thing. 


There's really nothing like band tour at all. Nothing out in the whole wide world. 


I love adventuring, and I love people. 

The Party of a Jacob Jespersen

It has come to pass that Jacob Jespersen has turned 19, and to celebrate this occasion, yesterday he threw quite the fine festival. First of, there were wonderful people in attendance. Some of my very favorite people in the world are them graduated people. To list but a few: Jesp, Woodruffs, Jeremy, Maren and Steph, Ryan, Johnny, Seth, Rosy, that's not everyone, but I'm too lazy to type in all the names. And of course there were also some more seniors like me. Anyway, it was wonderful. We headed up to Timpanogas park where we barbecued up some delicious Hamburgers, and then we played games such as frisbee and ninja destruction. After that we headed back to Jacob's house where we watched some animated movie about warrior owls, and ate cake and ice cream. It was prime. After that we visited Zoe at the Awful Waffle, and then went home. By this time it was like one in the morning. And then of course a few of us decided to wake up at 7 and play frisbee, which was good too, but now I need to sleep.

The point is, chilling with such wonderful people can be nothing but wonderful. 

Note: I really need to sleep now so I'm not going to spell check or edit this post. Not that I usually do, but I feel like I'm being more careless today about grammar usage than usual. 

This Is Glorious

It's a Sunny Saturday

Once upon a time, I woke up on a beautiful spring Saturday. The ground was covered in fresh snow and the sunlight glistened off the ground and the trees like diamonds. The birds were singing joyful songs and all of the small woodland creatures scurried among the forest. I knew that it was a day for excitement, for adventure, for wonder, and so I set off to rock canyon bowl, unaware of the challenges I had yet to face. When I arrived in the strange land, there were many people gallivanting about, playing ultimate frisbee! If you have any question in your mind whether or not I joined in, I did. It was awesome because there were so many awesome people there, like the Woodruffs, Jesp, Maren and Steph, Rosy, a couple Tanners, a Ryan, Johnny, Willy, Robbie, and many many more awesome graduated people. It was amazing to play on the snow strewn field, because you could totally dive and catch the frisbee without dying. Plus it all looked much more epic. We played for probably at least 3 hours. After that I ran a bit, and then home, just in case I wasn't already tired enough.

At around 2:00 I headed off to Zoe's house for a crepe party, which was amazing. I like crepes. We also played ping pong and basketball there. It was extra fun because so many more of my favorite people were there, like Zoe (of course), Yon Soo, Danny T, Wendy, Miriam Bay, Andrew and Jacob, Caroline, Kate, and I think Kat was there. Maybe. I'm not sure. I was pretty tired, I can't really remember who was there, but they were all cool people, and it was awesome.

Of course, I hadn't quite had enough social interaction for the day, so I went to backstage jazz night! This means that I got to dance with most of my favorite people, except the ones who weren't there, and also I probably missed some who were. Basically it was a very great (and exhausting) day. I enjoyed myself thoroughly. I should try and remember who I danced with. Let's see, Kate, Kat, Karli, Lauren, Mary, Gwen, Miranda, Shelby, Dani, Claire, Wendy, Mackenzie, Whitney, Jessie, Kenna, and I know there's more but I can't think of them. I like dancing to Jazzy music. It's more fun than awkward school slow dances.

Now I'm sore and tired, but yesterday was still the best day ever.