The main question here: Softball or Willy Wonka?
Okay, so I have played softball for like my whole life, and every year I could play for the RCS team, I did. But this year, I just don't know if I want to. I mean I don't want to quit playing softball all together, it's just that I don't really want to play for the RCS team. I have a couple friends on the high school team, but not many. My good friends are on the middle school team, so they wouldn't be on my team either. I know it looks good on a college application, it's just waaaay too much stress on me during softball season. I mean last year I handled it, 1) because we didn't have much schoolwork compared to this year, and 2) I had a lot of friends on the team last year. Pretty much, I just don't want to play softball on the team for school, but I don't want to quit it all together because softball is my passion.
My other option: Willy Wonka. My school is doing Willy Wonka for the spring play (I guess it's the spring play), and Mr. Swanson, the band director, needs a pit for the show. He needs a bass clarinet (of course.) and that's what I play. There are only 2 bass clarinets in the whole freaking band and I think he kind of expects me to do it. And it's not that I have a problem with it, it's just that I've never done this before. But LUCKILY, Hannah & River are playing piano and clarinet in the pit too C: So therefore I shall not be alone during this journey. Madeline told me it's a lot of fun to be in the pit, and I don't doubt that it's fun because I know will be, considering the people in it. But I also don't want the music to be too difficult, but I know I can get through that so that's not really a problem. Also, I am kind of scared to play like in front of a big audience by myself. I would be the only bass clarinet, and I'm not sure if I would have to play by myself, but just the thought of it kind of scares me.. although I don't know, I may not have a problem with it and end up enjoying it. That is the risk I have to take. Another thing, THIS PLAY AND ALL ITS REHEARSALS ARE DURING SOFTBALL SEASON. There is no way on God's Green Earth I could do both, plus school. It's just not physically possible.
So pretty much, I kind of need to make a decision. If I choose softball, I know I would let my band director down. If I choose Willy Wonka, I would lose a season of school softball. (Oddly enough, I'm not all that upset about that part.)
So pretty much, I have no idea what to do.
So my master plan, I think, is to play bass clarinet in the pit for Willy Wonka, and not play on the softball team. I can train for softball during the season after Willy Wonka, and during the summer I can train for softball, do workouts, condition, go to the hitting cages, and play at the sportsplex, and train during the winter off-season, all so I can get back into shape and get more practice in. Then I could play softball for the next 3 years of high school, and put that on my college application. (Because I also feel like you can put 'playing a musical instrument in a play' & 'band for all four freaking years of high school' on your college application.) I think this is the right decision. I hope I'm right, because I feel like I've thought this whole situation out pretty darn well. Wish me luckkkkkkkkkk.
