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Current music:	mae - awakening

so this past weekend was our vocal jazz trip to NYC and it was absolutely amazing! this is going to be a long, yet very good entry:

friday: got to school and went straight to the chorus room. we were all so excited! i ran down to lauren's first class and she gave me this hilarious picture which just made the morning complete haha. we hung out in the chorus room for about a half hour and then got on the bus to leave. the bus was fun. i tried to sleep for some of it but it was kinda hard. we started to play phase 10 but no one was really paying attention or enjoying it so we just hung out. anyway <5 hours later> we get to new york city and it's just an awesome place! i fell in love with it the minute we got into times square! the first thing we did before we even went to the hotel was go to madame tussaud's wax museum. it was sooooooooooooooo cool!! these things are insanely realistic... it was just awesome. then we went to the hotel and got all dandied up and headed out to dinner. we went to this italian restaurant. the food was really good, but it was a little frustrating cuz it was family style entrees, so for a table of 12 we only got like 5 big entrees. but o well, it was still really good. then we left to go to BLUE MAN GROUP! holy freekin shit... it was sooooooo good. the show was jsut plain awesome, they are incredibly talented men. they we out in the lobby when the show ended. i got my picture with one of em, and we got their autographs... they kiss the programs and leave big blue prints. it was so cool!! then we walked around times square for little bit, and me and christina bought the cutest purses ever from some guy on a street corner, haha! it was fun. then we went back to hotel and just hung out for a little while before we went to bed.

saturday: got up and went to breakfast at this really cute 50's style diner. they had this pink ladies purse i wanted. haha. anyway, the food was actually really good. i had french toast, mmm. and it was good cuz the waiters and waitresses sing, and they were all really talented! except for this one lady who sang MY song... not even joking. she sang "there are worse things i could do" and she totally didn't do it justice... heh. hahaha. then we got em to put on "we go together" and we were all singin along. it was fun. then this guy, brian, same and picked us up and took us to this acting and dancing workshop. we did the acting first and i really didn't enjoy it. i just felt like the guy giving us this section of the workshop was too sarcastic and... i dunno. i just didn't care for him. i felt like he was treating us like we've never acted before, which some haven't. but for people like me who live to act, i just didn't enjoy it. but then we did the dancing and it was sooooooo fun! omg! the guy, jeff, who taught us was too cool. we started with some of the basics and stuff and it was too funny. he has me, ryan, and nick come up and they had to dance fight over me to whatever type of music he put on... o man it was just hilarious. then we learned a dance to a song from the show HairSpray... it was a blast! we all danced really well! and at the end i was talking to jeff and he was like "you express yourself soooo well, you should really pursue something like this..." that made my life right there. it was soooo cool to have him like... actually tell me that i was good. we all did really well though! even pattycakes haha! then we had to rush like hell back to the hotel to get all showered and dandied up for our competition! we had an hour for all four of us girls to shower, do our hair, get into our performance outfits and get out ready to go. and we freekin did it... go us! haha. we sang really well i was really proud of us. i unfortunetly didn't get to meet vinnie's mom, but i will this summer so it's all good... but there was this lady that i thought might have been her so i asked her and she wasn't but she was like "wait... were you in the CNS jazz ensemble?" and i told her i was and she was like "you guys did a stunning job! can i talk to your director?" how cool is that!! i guess they aren't really used to singing jazz groups at these competitions, so we knocked em dead, hottness! and at the retreat the guy annocouncing the placements and stuff totally complimented our group, and we were the only one he said anything about. go us!! then we went on our dinner cruise... HA! F that! it was no dinner cruise... it was a freekin PARTY cruise! we had such a blast! they had all this crazy music goin and we were dancing like crazy! CNS totally knows how to bring the rock becuz random kids from other groups just kept flocking to our little circle! it was just awesome! then we went back to the hotel and ryan and nick had a little "tub party" in which they put on their shower caps and hopped into a buddle bath. it was really funny, and they rock. then we went back and got locked in for the night and had too much fun. jaime was determined to sneek out... so she tried to find a way that we'd be able to get the tape back on... omg. she took a wire hanger and unbent it so it was mostly straight... HAHA! it went no where... so we ended up just playing with this wire hanger for a while. then mark calls and tells us there's this porn on HBO... so of course we watched it and it was more hilarious than it was entertaining. we were laughing the entire time... (side story time: how bizarre is this... i was talking to vinnie last night. and i started telling him about the porn... and he was watching the exact same thing almost 500 miles away... how awesome are we! hahahaha! i seriously was laughing for about 20 minutes when he told me... god i love that kid! hahahaha! ok back to NYC) so we then proceed to laugh at jaime while she went hanger fishing for pretty much everything in her range... haha... then we finally fell asleep...

sunday: we woke up and packed and stuff. then we left to go sight seeing and stuff. it kinda sucked cuz none of the stores anywhere we open yet. but we went down to central park, it was really cute. then we went in the zootique haha... even though we didn't actually go to the zoo. we just rock like that. then we went to lunch in this cute little reataurant... and then we went down to ground zero. it was actually pretty sad. like... it was really hard to see anything cuz they had these huge chain link fences up around it, and it was basically just a big hole in the ground. and i had never actually seen the twin towers except from really far away, so i didn't really have anything to compare it too. but the buildings around it were still covered with ash and stuff. and i was fine until tim pointed down and we saw that people had written stuff all over the metal beems holding up the fences... the beem he pointed out had nothing on it except one person had written "it took a tragedy." that sorta got to me... so we looked at some of the other stuff people had written, and then got on the bus to come home. i didn't wanna come home. i really liked it there. i really wanna like, live there for a portion of my life. who knows... but the bus ride was fun... we all just rested and listened to our headphones for a while. but then we all started to get our second wind. we had a very rousing game of truth or dare... which turned into mostly truths. we're an awesome group of kids hahaha. then we got home... i went straight to keebler's confirmation party. i missed that kid... they had the OCC day of percussion on saturday and i was mad that i had to miss it. they did good though... i was proud of them. so we stayed there for a like a half hour cuz it was basically ending when i got there haha. but i told mama keebler all about my trip cuz she loves NYC too. then i came home and stayed up till like 1:30...

today:  woke up at 2:30 and that felt really good... haha. i think i'm gettin kinda sick but it's not too bad. and i mostly just hung around all day and rested up. we might be going over to callum's house tonight... i <3 cal! he's my boo! but who knows...

and that's that... and now we're on spring break and it had better be fun!! sooooo all and all i love my vocal jazzers and thanks for an awesome weekend!! <3 <3!!