19th
Madness
Well it’s certainly been an eventful few days for me, spent friday until sunday up at Garron Tower on the far edges of the north coast. It’s for level 1 mountain leader, which is basically; can you work a compass? Can you work a map? Can you tell kids off? Well done you passed! >_> unfortunatley I have to jump through this hoop to do my level two and the summer leader etc. eeeuuughh….
However one thing really sent my stress levels into orbit, I had a concert (I was actually playing) at 7:30pm on the saturday in the whitla hall, and everything seemed to line up to ensure my failure. First; my leaders both forgot I really need to be off the mountain BEFORE 6 (it’s and hour and a quarter trip to belfast and I needed parking). Then after getting off the mountains at 6:15 The electronic gate to let me out of where we were staying broke… I nearly died. I had to reverse back in and run and get somebody to fix it. Cue me leaving at 6:25, driving like a man possesed taking 1 hour to get to belfast and parked. 7:30 I run into the hall, run past two other orchestra’s and onto the stage just as we were being announced, with a not so delicate ‘Fuck’ I sat down. No tie, no belt, no tied shoelaces, clarinet still in box. with 20 seconds to spare I made it, Epic win!
This should be made into a film, it’d be an 18 mind with all the swearing I did whilst driving and because I tried to kill a runner. BAFTA’s all the way!
