Vista de Venezuela: Venezuelan Music Students Have Many Talents

To recap my weekend, I will go backwards. Today, I was told there would be a rehearsal. So around 5 PM, I drag myself out of the hammock at school and grudgingly make the walk to the music school. When I get there, there are people, but not as many as there usually are. I ask the door man what time rehearsal is, and he tells me there is no rehearsal today. Like this was supposed to be common knowledge, silly American. So I trudged back to Venusa and pondered to myself. How is it everyone knows about when rehearsals are or aren't except ME? I mean, nothing was posted. Nothing was e-mailed. Nothing was text messaged or called on the telephone. It just was somehow known that rehearsal was not today. This is not the first time this has happened. So I continued to think. If nothing was communicated verbally, then it had to be communicated non-verbally. And then it hit me. The only way this could happen is if the music students of Venezuela had TELEPATHIC ABILITIES. With their superhuman communication skills, it just entered their minds sometime in the middle of the day: there is no rehearsal today. And I, a simple human American, do not have telepathic abilities, which is why I was the only one who showed up today. These people are more talented than I imagined.

Saturday and Sunday were devoted to concerts. I played with the orchestra in a Halloween concert that featured show tunes like Beetlejuice and Phantom of the Opera, and also classics like the Sorcerer's Apprentice, Night on Bald Mountain, Firebird Suite, and Carmina Burana. I managed to find some pictures of the event, cause I was too busy playing. This was unlike any concert I've ever played in, because there were lights, a rock band, choir, acrobats, three dance companies, and other circus performers there to do an entire routine to all of our songs. There was enough light that we didn't need stand lights, but it got really annoying whenever I was trying to play and the strobe light was going on.

We also had to paint our faces or wear a costume for the event.

(Saturday)

(Sunday)

On Friday, we had our second field trip in our Tropical Ecology class. This time we went to the Spine Arbustal. Which is like desert, cause it's really hot and dry and has a lot of cacti. We did the same environmental tests we did in the cloud forest. A lot of people find these trips annoying, because it takes away from their free time on Fridays, but I like exploring the different parts.