Stage Fright

Hello! And how are you on this fine day? I am doing quite well other than a minor panic attack I had this morning while practicing my solo with the accompanist. But I will talk about that later. It is all nice and sunny today which is better than the cold winds we had yesterday. Yesterday, I went to the JV's first baseball game against Newcomerstown. They won by 11 and played really well. I went mainly to see Rob play, but he didn't play until the very last inning and didn't get to bat so I was a little sad about that. My other friend Dean, who normally plays varsity, played last night too. He pitched for the last half of the game and he did really well. I think that just like last year both JV and varsity will do well.

Last night on American Idol they did R&B hits. Yet again, only a couple people did well. My favorite of the night was. Lee. His was so good and I think he has a chance of winning this season. Andrew Garcia did well. His song reminded me of when Kris Allen did a cover of Kanye West's Heartless. Crystal did well as usual and so did big Mike. I am really not sure who will be going home tonight, but I think it could be Tim. He may be cute, but he hasn't been singing that well lately. In my opinion, Lee is the only one who has progressed throughout the course of the show.

Last night our teen mom-to-be was Nicole from Florida. She didn't have any drama really. Her mom was not mad about her having a baby and her boyfriend was supportive. So now we are 3/7 on supportive boyfriends. Next week is the girl who is having twins and it looks extremely dramatic.

So today we had the accompanist come in and run through our solos with us for the fine arts night that we are having later in April. Of course, I froze and could hardly play through it. I mean yes, I haven't worked on it a bunch since I prepared it for Solo and Ensemble but it is still playable. For some reason I just cannot play in front of people all by myself. I have no problem with ensembles at all though. I don't remember anything event in my past that would've caused me such trauma. It's probably a self esteem thing seeing as I have one that fluctuates. There are days that I am really confident and there are days when I am not. No matter what though, Mariama always finds a way to make me smile. Write Soon!