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Hellooo one and all. I’m supposed to be working at the moment but really can’t be arsed to write a 500 word letter to my fake french friend about cloning, so I’m going to write a blog instead. :happy:

I’m in week three of term now and everything’s going pretty well…I’m not liking the huge amount of work we suddenly seem to have as second years, but managing to get by. I’ve had a few musicy things going on – did a concert last week with the symphony and wind orchestras, which went reasonably well. My french horn is at the doctor’s at the moment because the trigger is broken but my lovely friend Michael has been lending me his in the meantime. My friend Genny, who is a very busy and important lady, president of the warwick drama society and directs lots of shows, is directing an Opera this term (Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas? Anyone know it?). Anywho I thought it might be fun to try out something knew with singing, and all my best friends here are involved in it in various ways too, so I auditioned for that on Monday (not for a principle part or anything, just chorus). I’d unfortunately lost my voice on the day of the audition, but luckily the musical director is a friend of mine too from choir, so he’d heard me sing lots of times before and said he could offer me a callback based on that… so I did my callback on Thursday, and this morning I found out that I got a part in the chorus :happy: So that’s snazzy. The show will be at the end of November in various venues in Leamington, Warwick, Birmingham, and it’s also going to the actors’ church in Covent Garden which is quite exciting. So if anyone’s around then do come and watch, Genny’s got so many awesome ideas for it so it’ll be accessible to all – opera-fans and opera-newbies! Also, it’s Purcell, so it’s in English!

In other news, my good friend Ingrid who I met in France and went to visit in Barcelona over the summer is coming to England to visit me and Joel in ten days’ time! So that’s really exciting For those who don’t know (I can’t remember if I wrote about it in my blog about France), Joel does French at Warwick but I met him in France on our vacation residence. So this afternoon I went round to his house for tea and biscuits and to plan our week of awesome funness with Ingrid :happy: We’ll hopefully do a day trip to London, an evening trip to Birmingham and take her to all the good places around here. There’s this cocktail bar that Gen told me about that I really want to try out…it sounds weird but apparently it has this open-air section with beds that you can lie on and look at the stars…hehe!

Other than that I don’t really have any news…it’s just been the usual work, library shifts, music and various nights out. Some really good ones actually. Wootzorz… oh yes, and the new house is pretty good, we’ve had some hiccoughs involving a leaky roof and general broken stuff, but all has been fixed. There’s an alarm that’s been going off in the hall since Thursday but our landlord said we have to wait for the battery to run down so he can replace it, which is proving quite wearing! I really love my room, which is nice and big this year. I’ve taken some photos but it won’t seem to let me upload them, so just imagine quite a big room with a frame around the bed and lots of photo collages on the wardrobe. Yay!

I better get on with that work now…hope everyone is well, enjoying the second year / fresher year (noob!) / work and college! Over and out :happy: