Pre-Performance Jitters

So tomorrow is the big day for us Cudamani summer institute folks. The third piece that was the bane of my existence yesterday is going a lot better. We don't sound great or very clear still but we sound heaps better than we did, so as the dance teacher would say "good progress!" But to our suprise, we are now supposed to play a new piece that we learned this morning. Amazing how their performance preparation goes. Cudamani members are playing half the instruments, but still. A bunch of us ended up playing the flute, much to my chagrin, as I can not get the octave to change consistently and can't believe we're expected to play something we learned in an hour and half today. So my strategy is to pretend to play and only actually blow into the flute on the last part because I can't play it without looking at Cover's fingers. And on our piece for the male dance our transitions are not clear at all. Its funny because the guys used to look amused when we messed up but now some of them are losing their patience and starting to look iritated instead. Oh well, no one expects us to be perfect tomorrow and we definitely will not be.

Trying on our custom made shirts was quite the entertaining moment. All of us women had been measured, but those of us who are larger endowed did not fit into our shirts so we have to get them let out a bit. They also have these strapless bodice things you're supposed to wear under the lace shirts that the dancers are wearing, they don't even make those in my size. I was thinking about getting one to wear at gamelan performances next year cause they're so cheap here and they just kind of laughed. This is why I don't buy clothes in Asia. But at least now my shirt will fit me tomorrow, fingers crossed. I'll definitely be taking a lot of pictures at the event, I really can't quite imagine it but its going to be very chaotic.