New Zealand

Well, just got back from New Zealand after a tiring tour and i'm just goignto do either short posts for each day or one long post.

Thurs: School, after school got onto the bus and travelled to sydney. met up with the cggs people and then pretty much went to bed....had an early morning the next day...

Fri: Oh man!....4:30 wake up...so tired...not as tired as some people....didn't relaly have any breakfast....i seemed to be not eating.....anyways....yeah....flight was really early...soemthign like 7:30....i wasn't realyl awake so yeah......got to NZ!!!!....was pretty cold but still good....we were all pretty tired by then...we went to the Aurora centre for a soundcheck which lasted a bit...then went to the college for our accomodationa nd i must say that it was SOOOOO much better then the Tassie rooms....we had room to walk!....yeah...that was that night...after dinner which was relaly nice and the chef was awesome!....yeah...bed after that...

Sat: Another early morning...nto so ealry...jsut about 5:30...got up...had breakfast and then another start for the Antarctic Centre...i think.....that was good...especially the huggland ride and the ice storm....our driver was an old guy and he was driving on a 45 degree and angle and as calm as could be!...crazy....what was even more crazy was the fact that Richard took off his jumper and stood with a t-shirt on in about -10 degrees weather!....crazy violinists.....left there and got back to change for the beginning fo the Aurora festival....bit of an opening ceremoney and then we got started.....few workshops but precicely a lot of listening to the other orchestras and bands....twas good.....long day and we were all realyl tried by then when we got back so we just had dinner and then just went to bed again for there was another early morning.....

Sun: Final day in which the orchestra actually had to play anything....