Powell River, Day 8

A little behind with my blogging ... I spent a long time writing e-mails and by the time they were done it was already time for me to go to bed.

I did not play a lot yesterday morning because the pieces I usually play in weren't rehearsed. So the couple of hours I had free I did some meditation and score studying. I won't expose what I meditated upon at this point because I am still waiting and searching for an answer to what I have thought about. But to my Christian friends, please pray for me as I am waiting for God's guidance towards my next step of life.

Orchestra rehearsal is the usual. I tried to squeeze in practice times when I was on break or counting rests. It'd be great if I had real practice time, but that's better than nothing. I was thankful that I took 2 years of orchestral reading at UBC because it gave me myriad chances to get to know orchestral repertoire. I remember reading Capriccio Italien at one of those classes. I don't recall reading Shosty 6 before yesterday's rehearsal, but memory comes back as we played.

In the evening we went to the beach for "barbeque". What really happened was we had grilled skewers at the beach, not really a barbeque. We had to hike in order to get to and from the beach. It was nice; I haven't hiked for a while. Sadly the weather was not the most pleasant for hanging at the beach. A few raindrops when we were having supper. :-P

I tried to practice after supper, but my shins and (strangely) my forearms were so sore that I just had to call it quits after about 1/2 hour. I spent the rest of the night e-mailing.