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This was definitely the most fun practice so fall. Also we had Anders as an “guest” singer. But after playing a while we talked about seriously recruiting Anders to Super Conductivity, and it seems like we now have transformed from a 3 people band to a 4 people band! Which for me is really taking of a lot pressure, I will probably still do some background singer but I'm not going to be the lead vocalist. We filmed some this time as well, but since my computer didn't really want to work here are some pictures instead.

It didn't feel like I was of much help this time. As we played Jeopardy to practice swedish with them I was the “host” and read the questions and the answers. Sadly I didn't do that great a job either. I have a tendency to speak quite fast and for a non-domestic speaker I'm really hard to understand at times. Well, I've learned my lesson and next time I will try to take that into regard and speak slower.

This week did not feel as good as last time for me. A big problem for me is both that I'm not very confident in my singing, and I can't sing and play the bass at the same time. As I had a tad of a cold and no microphone this time the fear of singing false was bigger then ever. So after a while of singing my throat hurt and we stopped playing a bit earlier.

This times practice was really fun, and it really felt like we made some progress. Something that really contributes this time was that we where able to get the microphone to work so we could finally try to play the song as it was suppose to be. Something I'm very worried about personally is singing false, since I'm not that good on singing the high notes and I really don't want to let the others down by singing bad. So I'll just have to practice!

Now we have close to finished the skirt part of the costume and we've started on planning the blue dress. Since we didn't have a elastic band at hand of the waistline we will just have to fix that next time. It takes a lot of time just thinking about how to solve the design of certain things and the thing were still most worried about is the arm puffs. In the end the skirt is suppose to look something like this picture.

Ones again I ended up helping out with math. It went quite okay, I was even able to help a couple of my friends who got stuck on a few weirdly phrased questions. This time I was a bit annoyed that they didn't have the answers sheets to some of their math tasks either. It makes me feel a bit pressured since I really don't want to teach them the wrong things and I have no way to make sure it's right. At least this time we were two helping one student so we could discuss with each other and explain in different ways so that the girl we helped out hopefully felt that she had learned something.  ~50min

We had our second practice! In the beginning we really tried to do it accordingly to the original version. The thing was that we didn't really know it well enough to play, so we screwed up before even reaching the first verse several times. After that we decided to just play easier and just have fun so we wouldn't feel so discouraged. It really made one a lot happier and gave you a chance to experiment a bit with what you had. Here is a bit from our practice. If you press the picture you can see a short clip from our practice.