This was a great week. Went by so fast. My bandmates and I officially
became a band on Monday with our first practice session. We will be performing
3 songs in early-mid September for a fundraiser, two of which are covers, and
one we have to write. So far progress on our song has been good. But Lawrence
and I are satisfied with what we have so far. It sounds kind of like a jingle.
For those of you musical ones reading this, I play on the keyboard (brass
section setting) a D note (usually beside middle C) and hold it down for 3
bars, and then play C, B, A, and then back to D in the 4th bar, and
he plays D and G chords over it. Try it sometime. It’s been a running inside
joke around base this week.
So, our assigned cover songs, which are actually the one’s
we chose (we got what we wanted), we got With or Without You by U2 (Clayton C
would be proud) , and 1,2,3,4 by Feist. We’re playing U2 song a bit down tempo,
so slower than usual. Check out Boyce Avenue’s cover for an idea, which is on
Youtube.
Class was pretty intense. We had this guy named Josh Seykora
teaching us this week, and seriously I wasn’t bored for any of the lectures. He
is world class, and if I had an university, I would hire Josh. We had probably
15 hours or more of class this week and no one was bored at all.
I was surprised to find out that we actually have work
duties on base here every day, but I wasn’t surprised when I was assigned to
Property team. I am pretty much the neighbourhood plumber for 2 hours every
day; 1:30-3:30pm. It’s not really that bad though. So far I’ve unsuccessfully tried
to unclog and sink, and unsuccessfully braised a pipe. It was fun running the
Australian oxy torch though. It’s definitely a different tool than the one I
use for putting water pipe together back home.
More later!
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