Jamming and paddling

Last night, after eating an ice cream cone, and leaving at 9:15, I went with my dad to the CERN music room and we jammed. It was so frickin' fun. It's basically a big white room with a drumset, a few amps and music stands, posters of like famous musicians and two pianos and a white board and a couch. I played drums first, and I came to realize how bad I really was. But actually after a while I got the basic back-beat down pretty well. So then I improvised on my trumpet a little, which was both fun and perhaps very mediocre-sounding. But see, when you're improvising, my top rule is to just like, not care at all what people think, you just gotta do your thing and have fun. Because that's what it's all about. So yeah. And then I tried the piano a little while my dad drummed, then we did a piano duet thing. I really liked improvising with my trumpet. I did it in B flat, which was the blues scale I was most used to. I just did a few random patterns, stuff and stuff. It was very fun. So then at around 10:30 or so my dad said he was tired so we drove back home, listening to some French radio station.

That same day, we also biked the 6 miles to Geneva and rented a paddleboat. My dad had already done a 60-mile bike ride in the morning, so his legs were like dead. But it was still fun.

We got up close to the sailboats and stoof. The water was coldish, but I stuck my foot in it anyway. Ah.

I want to jam more at the music room. It was really really cool. Too bad none of my friends are over here, 'cause it'd be like, as cool as an ice cube on steroids, if like Miyako could really get down with her flute, Erez could bang the drums, Nick could honk on his sax, Anthony kept the rhythm with his bass, Jenny could sing or play flute, Tina came with her clarinet, Sam played trombone, Becca played like... piano? Oren rocked on his gee-tar, or piano, and then like Alex came and wow-ed us all with some jazzy string-ly action! Yeah. That would be like THE best thing ever. And then like we had a concert and stuff and stuff. Yes, that is one of the best imaginary things ever! Ooooooh yeah.