Alto Trombone

For a while now, I have been outplaying my starter trombone. My teacher tells me that I need to get an upgrade, so I've been looking for a good model. I currently have a tenor trombone, and thought about getting one with a different voice range. A bass trombone seems like a good consideration, but I really love the sound of the alto trombone. It reminds me of a French horn, but it really doesn't sound too much like one. There's really not another instrument I can compare it to. The alto trombone isn't that popular nowadays, but it was a well-known instrument back in the 1600s and 1700s. Unfortunately, this instrument seems like it would take a good while for me to adjust to. I can play a lot of notes in its range, but I would probably have to re-learn the note positions, and have to learn all of my music in the tenor clef instead of the bass clef. Plus, I don't know if there's a lot of concert/marching music I could play with it in band. So, for now, I may just stick to a tenor or bass trombone, and wait to learn to play the alto trombone, even though it is such a beautiful-sounding instrument.

Viral Outbreak, Day 2

Just when I thought that the news of the train wreck was slowing down, something else just seemed to pop back up. According to the news, the homeless man who had been hit by the train did have a disease. What kind of disease? No one really knows for sure. However, it is spreading through our water supply. That really scares me, because I could mindlessly drink a glass of our own water and be contaminated, and not really think about it until it was too late. I would think that this information would be circulating around the school, but a lot of people are just ignoring it. They seem to be daydreaming all the time, who knows about what. Either that, or maybe they're infected, like that homeless man was.... Thankfully none of my friends or family are acting this strange. I would be devastated if they were infected. This disease has really got me wondering...can we really stop this?

Viral Outbreak, Day 1

It usually takes a while for news to travel around here, but the news of the train accident has been spreading like wildfire. A few nights ago, a homeless man was struck by a train in the northern part of the county. However, they just recently found his body yesterday. This morning I went to school as normal. By the time I got to 2nd period, I had noticed the uproar about the accident. My friends didn't know too much about it, but neither did anyone else; we had just heard bits and pieces, but they all fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. People had claimed that the man had waltzed out onto the tracks and didn't seem to care about anything. However, no one actually saw him get hit. It seems that either he was having hallucinations or he was possessed. I hope nothing else like this happens to anyone else.