Leo, Roving Reporter
Report from: On the Road
Story filed: Final concert
Hey there, I've been to Orange recently, pretty recently actually, it was last weekend, I went to Orange to perform in the Cultured Youth Orchestra that was part of the Orange Chamber Music Festival. I caught one of the school buses that left for Orange after school on Friday because we had a rehearsal from 4 to 8pm that afternoon. Our rehearsal space was the music building at Kinross Wolaroi school, who also supplied a fair portion of the students to play in the orchestra. As it was a late rehearsal they kindly provided us dinner which was a lot of pizza, which was gone very, very quickly. Instead of having to drive all the way back to Bathurst late at night my mother and I stayed in a motel. It was a very nice motel, very comfy. In the morning I slept in a bit, had some breakfast and went to go get a haircut, The men's barber that I went to was in one of the shopping malls. Bathurst - I have to say Orange's shopping malls are far, far superior to Bathurst's. They're just so much better. Sad that we don't get shopping malls like Orange. When I say they're better I mean they're big, have a nice design and look, have lots of shops, all full - no empty shops, and they have a food mall. In my opinion, just so much better. After the haircut I went to our final rehearsal which was from 10am to 1pm and then our performance was a 3pm final rehearsal for a 4pm performance. This might seem like a short time to prepare and practice but we did have a two day rehearsal sometime in January as well. The performance was good, it went really well. And with that over, I packed my bags and my mother and I headed straight home for Bathurst, only after we stopped, looked at some op shops and got some ice cream. Overall it was a really good weekend.
Until next time
Leo Roving Reporter
