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I had just started this webpage today so I'm still setting it up.

Edit Okay, the webpage seems to be working fine now except I need to get an account at Hello.com to post pictures on here. I will be making another webpage which will be dedicated to the Clarinet. Mainly just little tips and stuff about the clarinet.

I can hardly wait until my birthday! The birthday countdown is at 26 days! Me and my dad were thinking of buying me a new clarinet since until Sunday it wasn't working. Then I found out that it wasn't working because the ligature got bent. Therefore I bent it back (good thing) and it worked fine. I was so excited I told my dad and his response was "Well now you need to save up to buy the clarinet on your own". Yep, so it'll take me like a year to buy the clarinet that I want. It's 800 dollars, a Buffet Crampon E-11 Intermediate student clarinet. It's made out of grenadilla wood and has an adjustable thumb rest (which is good because my thumb gets really sore at the end of performance). But it'll all pay off having a much better tone, and that way when I purchase it with my OWN money and by MYSELF then I won't have to feel guilty for my parents spending that much money. So now that's out of the birthday wishlist, recently at a music store I saw a mouthpiece set! I was surprised at the price; with a Vandoren B40 or 45 (can't remember), a Rovner Ligature and a box of Vandoren Reeds for &125 dollars, and a whole bunch of cool music books.

But now since my mom found clarinet sheet music over the internet whenever I ask "Can I buy this", she'd be like do you think money grows on trees, you can just download it over the internet. But she doesn't understand the fact how the sheet music manufacturers like Hal Leonard get paid! I was planning on buying the Harry Potter book, because I've wanted to play the Hedwig's Theme score for clarinet choir. So I wanted to play it with 3 clarinets and 1 bass clarinet for the spring concert.

I'm supposed to be practicing for my speech on smoking for tomorrow but it'll be fairly easy. Problem is...the length of the speech must be 3-5 minutes and mine is only like 2 minutes. Which means....I need to take a lot of pauses between and after sentences and talk really slow (hehe). For the past weeks I've been hiding away from my teacher making sure she doesn't call my name for the speeches but I'll just get it over with tomorrow and actually get a mark. On my playing test today (for the clarinet) I scored an A+. Then after I was done everyone was cheering for me and saying that was awesome! But people don't realize how easy it is when you practice. But it's not like it's the first time scoring that A+. I've been familiar with it a lot on every test =).

Perhaps I should start practicing ? I don't want to embarass myself by pausing every second and saying to myself "man what the heck did I just write, it doesn't even make sense". Yep that happens a lot since I don't proof read oral presentations especially; when I present it I have no clue what I'm saying and fumble over my words.

Today's glass of honeydew milk Be happy for others, be confident and walk like you're proud