Authors Note: I do not own Dummer Academy… It is a great New England Bording School where we stayed on our tour. I promise there will be some band things in the Europe part after all we toured with a wind ensemble and orchestra.
Lydia got out of the silver 1985 BMW she heard the engine turn off and her mom stepped out of the car. Cynthia Maybrooks was the best mother a girl could have. She shared fashion, hair and make up with Lydia.
Lydia and Cynthia walked up the cobbled paths to the Arts building of Governor Dummer academy. As Lydia pushed open the door she felt her stomach drop to her knees. They walked over to the sign in desk where Lydia saw a girl talking with what looked like a guy of Puerto Rican descent. This guy would later become her best friend. They departed and Lydia stepped forward to receive some info packets and her room key. They left quietly to the Ingraham dorms.
Lydia had three red suitcases and a purse. Her mom grabbed the big one and she grabbed the three smaller bags. She walked to room 118 and unlocked the door. She put her luggage in the closet and grabbed her chorus folder out of the small suitcase. She heard voices in the hallway. She poked her head out of the doorway to see another girl and her family standing there. The girl was blonde and extremely tall due to stiletto heals. She wore a skirt and a cute top. She introduced herself as Lauren Wilbur.
Lauren and her family had just recently moved to Maryland. " Have you done your voice check yet?" Lauren asked.
"No, I didn't realize we had to do one, Where is it?" She voiced with worry.
"It's above the auditorium in the choral room. I believe that a girl named Emily Katz still has not auditioned. She is really nice and does a good Jewish mother impression!" Lauren joked.
" Okay I will go do that and be off to lunch," Lydia said closing her door.
" Wait I'll come with you," Lauren said following.
They were walking down the street to the main part of campus as they went to cross the road they found a run over snake. Lauren screamed and Lydia continued walking. They went over the bridge, Crossing over to the main campus. Lauren left at the parking lot while Lydia and her mom continued to the chorale room.
Lydia meet up with Emily Katz and they went into their auditions together. Emily asked to sing a song for the tour that was a Hebrew text. Lydia discovered that her director Kay Wilder and Emily were Jewish and that they were pleased to sing this song in the concentration camp they would visit soon.
Lydia requested to sing Cantate Domino. She decided to ask Kay what her favorite piece was. As any director would do, Kay would not respond to the question out of diplomacy. Lydia went to go to a meeting with the nurse. This meeting lasted a very long time because of Lydia's diabetes, because of this she was late to chorale rehearsal.
She walked in and asked where the Soprano twos were sitting. Kay pointed to the other side of the room. Lydia sat down next to a girl named Annie Rice and a girl name Katie whose last name was never discovered. She was simply known as the girl with perfect pitch. Annie was sitting next to the bases. A guy named Andrew Zahares was sitting next to her. He would later become known to Lydia as Sister Mary-Andrew. To Andrew's left was another guy that would change Lydia's life forever.
To Lydia's horror, her mom and the nurse barged into rehearsal. "Hello everyone! My daughter Lydia is Diabetic," she said as she motioned over to Lydia.
"Basically if you see me passed out on the ground please get the nurse, that's all," Lydia remarked sarcastically as the rest of the chorale laughed.
"Could we borrow you again for one second Lydia?" Her mother asked.
Lydia went out to the hallway where she said goodbye to her mother. There were many tears and hugs as this trip would be Lydia's first time away from home. Lydia dried her eyes knowing that she had to go into the chorale room and sit back down.
They practiced all day until dinner. Lydia sat to eat with Lauren and Emily as well as a pair of best friends from Massachusetts named Karen and Tyler, and a girl named Jen. After dinner it was time for more rehearsals until ten thirty p.m. When Lydia got back to her dorm she was very exhausted she prepared all of her supplies for the morning set her IPod on her new European concert tour slide show and slid beneath the sheet and thin blanket of the bed and fell asleep.