Holly Botella: Extremely Excited!

When I found out I was going to China, I was extremely excited!  My friends and I celebrated by going to a Chinese buffet for lunch that day (although, I'm pretty sure they don't give you a fortune cookie after every meal in China, which is a little depressing).  I've only been out of the country once and I was only nine at the time, so unfortunately I was a little too young to remember the experience.  


Now that the hardest part of preparing for the trip is over—making payments (thanks, Dad!), renewing my passport, weighing my flute and piccolo on the hanging scale located in the fruits and veggie section at Publix because they don't weigh enough to register on a bathroom scale so I could record their weight for Customs, etc.—the countdown begins!  


I'm even more pumped for the trip after our concert this week!  We performed three of the four pieces we'll be playing in China.  I was imagining what it would be like to perform for an audience of two thousand people as I was playing in the concert.  What a rush!  We'll have a series of rehearsals leading up to our much-awaited departure on December 31st.  I feel strongly that after tonight's performance we'll be very well prepared to represent the KSU School of Music in China.  43 DAYS LEFT!!!