November 9, 2011

          I feel nervous because of the competition even though it is less than a month away. Today, they choose the piece from the three pieces and for violin, we got the piece Etude No 29, composed by  Fiorillo. That song was the second hardest out of all three pieces for me. As for piano, they choose February, composed by  Tchaikovsky. Since the piano competition have 65 people, we are going to have two parts. The first part is where we play the piece they choose and they will choose 12 people that they think are the best and the 12 people can get the chance to play the song they choose by themselves. 65 people and they can only choose 12!!! That's really hard. I heard from my mom that when my oldest brother was in elemantary, he had that for violin and he didn't make it into the finals. I hope I does. As for violin, there are less people but still, there are 36 people. However, we won't have to compete for two parts. We just go on stage and play the two pieces and wait for the result. I really hope I make it well and alive. My brother, Ben Lee, won like 6th place when he was in 8th grade, competiting violin against 7, 8, 9th graders, according to my mom. That is pretty, really, awesome! I feel lucky for my brother again. This year, he is still competiting for viola, and guess how much people does he have in his group? 1 and that's himself!!! Out of our school, there are four people attending the competition. My brother attending the viola competition, I attending the piano and violin, Kevin Chien attending the violin (I think...but not for sure), and a high school person competiting in piano.