Today marks the fifth day in a row we haven't had a rehearsal. It's nice to have some down time, as well as time to try and turn our apartment into a home, but I think we're all ready to be playing more. The orchestra is on tour right now and should be back tomorrow, but we won't rehearse again until the 24th. After our concert on the 25th, the orchestra will go on another short tour (again..Kyle will be the only one going..meaning more time off), then we will finally start working on Tannhäuser as well as the first opera of Wagner's Ring Cycle. Pretty heavy stuff, but I'm starting to get excited about playing some opera.
In our days off we've made a two trips to IKEA, and several trips to our local Wu-Mart for food and other smaller household items. Wu-Mart is in no way affiliated with Walmart, but they have nearly everything we need. HOWEVER, though they have french presses, they do not have COFFEE. I was able to find some coffee at IKEA. It's alright for now, but I will definitely need to find a place that sells some decent coffee. That aside, I forgot how much shopping is involved when you're starting from scratch in a new place. Lots of shopping! The apartment is coming together nicely, and I promise I'll have some pictures up soon.
I'm really enjoying the people we're living with. Cecilia (horn player no. 1) and Keyondra (horn player no. 2) are great girls. Keyondra is sweet, funny, and very easy to talk to, and Cecilia is crazy silly (kind of like me) and I love it. Chris of course is my favorite person I'm living with.
I think tonight we're going to make a stir fry, so we're going to head to Wu-Mart to pick up some rice and veggies. Hopefully we'll get out more in the next few days, and I'll have something more exciting to write about.
Zài jiàn!
MISS YOU
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