Music Intensifies

You are now looking at a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Fashion) student!! That's right! I received my offer/conformation email the other week whilst I was on camp (more on that in a bit) so I was madly refreshing my email on my phone all day and slightly panicking since it didn't look as though I got in until my mum texted me to look in the spam/junk folder! What a way to freak me out, having such an important email being in that folder.
My course it a little bit special as it is the first bachelor course for fashion in Adelaide and is over two different campuses, so I will get to spend half my time doing "prac." work in the city and the "academic" work in, I guess you would say, the suburbs (at least, this is what I am assuming haha. I go in and work out my timetable and get more info on Thursday.)

Now, on to the camp I mentioned before *warning: nerd alert*
So if you have read some of my other posts you may know that I am quite the music nerd. I was raised in a musical/arty family and my mum joined a brass band when I was 3 so this soon became my life, and now I have been officially playing in one for over 10 years. Anyway, back to what I was actually talking about.
At the end of last year my friend conned me into applying for a youth brass band camp (that was organised by my conductor). This week long camp consisted of three intensive days of rehearsals then three days of tour in small towns around the Riverland, SA. We stayed at a camp that was right on a lake, which we were able to swim in in our free time (as it is summer here in Australia) and it was so nice, there is a really cool sunset photo on my instagram.

       Look at us being really really lame on a train (ha that rhymed) at a historical village.

We had a blue tuba as our mascot (seen in the photo above) that was used to promote the tour and to collect donations in at out gigs. We also had a piece written for us, by a local composed, that was called "Land of the Blue Tuba" which featured some well known Australian/South Australian songs such as "Bound For South Australia". This camp/tour was so much fun and I am thinking about doing it again next year, and there has been talk of having it in a different location so that would be cool.

Oh, but wait, my brass band camp life didn't stop there, oh no! All of yesterday and half of today was spent at my band's annual camp where we intensively rehearse new music for the Australian National Band Championships, which is held in a different city each year, this year being Sydney. We have to play four pieces, one a test piece (where every band in you section, ours being B grade, has to play this piece), a hymn, a march and an own choice. We also have to do a street march and to turn the corners you have to do fancy things like those American marching bands at football? games, how they do fancy patterns and stuff.

                                       Here is a random photo of half the band in marching formation.
Not sure if any of this actually made sense but oh well. I won't bore you any longer with my band life as you will probably hear more about it around Easter time when we have the competition. If you read all this well done! I guess it wasn't terribly exciting to read but I got a little carried away haha. I did actually have an outfit post planned but this somehow happened instead oops.

Bye for now,
Chelsea
Also if you did read all of it leave a comment? maybe? :) I need to learn to post a a decent time, not a midnight haha

"Schoolies" Trip

Oh Hey

So at the start of the month (wow how time flies) my friends and I went on a little road trip to celebrate finishing high school. Our little getaway was instead of going to Schoolies (if you aren't from Australia you probably have no idea what this is. It is basically a weekend long party for students that have just graduated school to get really drunk and what not.) because we weren't really interested in getting drunk with thousands of annoying people (no offence if you did go, ngl it did look fun, from what I saw from various Snapchats ha.) We somehow managed to get everything organised in a few days after our original plan of where we were going to stay didn't work out and then having trouble getting input from everyone to figure out somewhere else to go.

Anyhoo, it was a 3 hour car ride to our friend's shack in a quiet little fishing town on the Yorke Peninsula where we stayed at for 2 nights. Even though there was beds in the shack we decided to camp outside in a tent, however on the second night we noticed there was a storm coming across so we had to quickly pack the tent up and sleep inside haha.

Photo by my friend Shannon @shannylee1 on Instagram

This photo was taken on the first day (I think) when it was quite warm and you can see how blue the water looks in the background. We didn't go swimming however because apparently there are razor fish there and the sand was really weird, I don't even know if you could really call it sand...it was really gooey and your feet would stick to it...so weird.

Action shot on the jetty ft. pelican

We found some eggs on the beach in a shell nest

We also found a dead crab but how beautiful are the colours of the underside!

Close up shot of a strip of cute tiny shells

I did take a few shells home even though you aren't really supposed to but shh ;) These photos were taken on my phone and like wow they turned out so nice!

How flippin cool are these sunset photos! I love it when the clouds and sky go all pink aahh. It was around this time when two of my friends walked up a hill and noticed the storm coming, luckily they did as we may have gotten a bit wet and blown away in the tent haha.

I will leave you now with a "super gangsta" photo of my friends and I (the one with the blue bandana)

We call ourselves the "Recess Crew" photo from Instagram (@chelsealikesyoursmile)

Bye for now, not forever