Yea, I mean it's the 2nd major city, the most major European culture because it's French like Canada. The only thing is that Miami and L.A. and LV are bigger, as well as ... Chicago ... anyway, L.A. takes the cake, for me, and Miami. Remember on MTV in the late 1990s, like 1998 and 1999 I know I was watching, we saw on either MTV or VH1 the people dancing waving their arms in the air on a platform outside in like different little boxes showing maybe in Miami, Los Angeles, New Orleans, I'm pretty sure. I don't even remember if NYC was there. I don't know anyone who has their heart in NYC so much. I landed on a plane there, waiting to go somewhere else, a time before 911, like 2000, summer. I didn't really think much of it, at the time. Same with my Russian piano teacher in the New Orleans area when I had no time to practice. Later, years later, I thought of the fluidity she taught me, and I think it launched me as a piano major. Anyway, I have family in NY, and I know that NYC is a place lots of people want to go to. I guess my favorite city is Cleveland, but I lived in the New Orleans area. I do miss the food, there. I was big on food, when I lived there, wasn't very careful in my eating habits but didn't pig out in the way I do now, in Orlando. We haven't really eaten out a whole lot, but we used to live by this like Backyard Grill. I think my friends treated me to a place like that, where we talked with a boy they knew at UCF in Business, who seemed to be coasting relaxing but was nice but not like all where he'd want to be, something I know about growing up with them for 3 years. I know everyone knew the nation's oldest continuing city. I told them, "I lived there." They said, "Saint Augustine is a beautiful city." How can every person I tell this to, about, say this? Some were probably strangers, but I don't know if they were planned meetings. There are tourists there, a lot, but you can still walk around. The bay area is pretty clear. It's like by the cemetery where it's crowded. I don't know if there were many houses in downtown, but most people lived on the island on the beach. Yea, and a lot of people don't live in the city. I guess they just go to the school and church. I went to the oldest parish in the U.S. I was in choir and even played piano sometimes, which was a big deal to me. I took lessons from 1 of the music teachers. People from the New Orleans area usually stay there. It's not a nice feeling, when you're from somewhere else and haven't been there awhile and don't feel free to move about, much at all. I mean, so many people want to go to NYC. I don't understand how people can all go to Disney, neither. It seems important.
So, I majored in music there, and the jazz is cute, I mean. I was a musical prodigy. I also studied a bit of art, there, but not like into the advanced stuff. I didn't major in it. The food is good. You just have this feeling like of what you're supposed to do and what you're not supposed to do. I get the idea of shrimp and noodles. Usually, there are interesting pizza places in interesting areas. 2 closed down in the nation's oldest continuing city, my favorites. Now, food at like museums is becoming a big deal. The college in New Orleans next to mine had really good food, it had Taco Bell and this certain shop I've seen here on the road of ice cream that sells ice cream with chocolate in the middle. There may even be a Smoothie King at the gym. They don't have Smoothie King here, and that was like Scrat's acorn. They don't even have tasty pita, anymore, nor the kind they had in that area. I'm pretty sure it was better in that area, but they have a special Florida grocery store, which in every other place I lived remember saying, "Where shopping is a pleasure," plastered up like Super Wal-Mart. They had a like colossal, like seeming like a big construction site with a dome Super Wal-Mart up north. Different food in different areas, too. So, though I was good at music, I wasn't like welcome to be a participant, like, I dunno, not much public singing opportunity. Didn't have time from homework for piano. I didn't pick up another instrument. Didn't know what. Knew the oboe was the hardest, used to want to do the flute. Of course, violin is important, but I guess it is like a fiddle, like my Talented Music teacher plays and the other girl in my class, a Korean. Then, there's viola. Then, you wonder about the "back-up" instruments and wonder what the band is made of. I remember a good singer where I used to live took flute, and I saw her recital. Her mom made her keep playing the flute. So did this poor girl from San Fransisco. I even said I wanted to play flute when I was like 6. I said I wanted to sing when I was 7 and said I liked it at 5. I didn't take voice because I was in a good choir and wasn't that good, though we learned to read music before, and later I was too shy and didn't have time to practice piano.. I was gonna take piano and voice from the same teacher. Maybe, I didn't need piano, but I certainly learned a lot about music from keeping up in piano. Then, it would be too much money and I did more things, like I guess a more expensive ballet class. Maybe, my mom just didn't think I should take voice after age 12.. So, at 16, I did it in Talented Music, and I was very approved of. We stopped, though, when the Korean girl came back. A lady came in and taught me and got me to produce such a good tone that was so loud and pure. Also, sometimes, I was only like a few inches wide from front to back, at least once. I wasn't bony. I was eating more healthily and sometimes fasting or dieting. Well, anyway, now, I also like beef and not chicken, anymore, when I eat at home. I don't eat steak. I like steak at Outback, for instance, where we used to eat more often when I was younger. Now, it costs $100, for some reason.
Yea, I also miss like sitting at football games and when I started getting nachos when I went places and when we moved, I guess, though I guess it was better there. I think I used to get the kids meals, too.
They made Jazzland when I turned 14, and it even had a ride where you use a laser. I wonder if Ellen DeGeneres went. A teacher I liked who was gonna do Debate, that I put in my schedule, waved at me, and I remember but didn't notice. The roller coaster really didn't make me feel good, but I guess today it would. They took it down, and now it's 6 Flags. I went on the black, twisted water slide, which if anyone is scared of a water slide it's that 1, though it's not like 5 stories high, I think. No, I didn't go on the 1 that slopes down from like 10 stories high. I do go on smaller slides like that not as much at an incline. So, it was cute they had a haunted house. The kids were older. I went on it. My brother and mom really, really didn't like it. Neither did I. I was gonna go to Universal but didn't even feel like Trick-or-Treating, wasn't even gonna get a costume, maybe cat ears. So, yea, my friend from where we used to live introduced us to Dippin' Dots. I think they used to have 1 at the mall, here. I guess the food there was kinda a big thing, for me. So, the zoo was big there. It became bigger to me later, and I went in college before I left. They even had us go there in the dark the start of college and go on these buses, and I was left behind and had to ride with the police, left early, got lost or something. I guess the most interesting thing was sitting going there talking to another major, not sure what, maybe an X Music Education major. I think it was for 1st year students, though. I guess I most brought with me the memories of the past but soon readjusted. I really liked the people in voice and was into the ballet program. I guess the vocal program was the big thing, but it doesn't seem so big, anymore. Oh, it's interesting they took away Education, and my roommate was an Education major. They combined the new Communications Music complex, which might have been joint before, into maybe like a new school of Fine Arts. I was thinking I'd do Theater, and they had Theater combined with Business or Communications. There's a children's center maybe more in Mississippi, which is like a dream away. I learned to like Mississippi. We used to go by Biloxi, for some reason. There was a Barnes & Noble. We also went to a nature center, where I really wanted to bring my friend. I think the aquarium got HUGE. Oh yea, there is no aquarium in Orlando. I even went to an event with the martial arts teacher for his daughter and his family where you go around and eat. I'm not sure where he's from, but I'm guessing his wife might be from the area or the South. She's really cool but makes fun of her daughter, and the martial arts teacher is very nice. They wanted to take me out on my birthday, but I said no. I mean, like my life is so short, and I spent it with my family and had no friends like before.. What else? I remember the festival with the stuck up young ballet girls selling stuff, who did ballet longer at a more advanced school but not that advanced though I didn't go to a sole ballet school, though they started off as a branch like that themselves, and like going across to the piano stores ... these girls were homeschooled and not with black hair. Supposedly me playing organ and being choir was what made me different, but no one really like acknowledged me. I didn't do recital the 2nd year because I wanted to quiet down my schedule and even was in adult class. The next year, for some reason, I was in teen gymnastics and not regular and on Saturdays I took honors Classical Music in New Orleans. That's when they practiced for recital. The other big school there said you could go any of 1-6 days, too. Here, the programs are trashy and time-demanding. I'm not into versing Florida culture in ballet class. Maybe that's good, no dance in Florida. It's funny, the ballet teacher's daughter didn't like movies. I saw on her Facebook. I wonder who else "didn't like" movies. I wanted to watch more here, but then there's not as many it seems now. I thought I could like get in on Hollywood of the modern day. So, I know I could have maybe found other movies. I went back and saw like Ocean's Thirteen and maybe 2 others, well 1 being Milk. I know my friend presented me with 1 on a teenage girl getting a makeover and seeing a pubic hair on a pizza. I said this is a sad day for pizzas "everywhere" or something. Maybe, I said it after the movie. It even feels like we'd have paused it. So, I guess, these people know a lot of movies, privately. I should have watched TV as a preteen, too. I'm not sure what, hopefully not Nickelodeon. I guess there are people, like Ellen DeGeneres, who aren't in on modern culture, who have never worn real clothes. I was made fun of by some in my attempts at sewing, but I didn't have time nor the patience. Also, I could never understand knitting and crocheting instructions, and it was so weird. No one else ever said that. I should have looked it up, online. I can definitely cross stitch and know going around was that some can't or a lot find it very difficult. I don't feel I'd have patience to do a sampler, but it would be like a milestone or lifetime achievement, which it was for people a long time ago. I was into American Girls and not sure if it was in the Little House books. I also lived in the nation's oldest continuing city. I'm not sure where else I've seen this, but I have. Anyway, at the nation's oldest continuing city, it was at this 1 museum a guy had I guess like connected to a hotel which is now a college, which is known mainly for educating for the impaired or blind. It's Spanish. It's not like slick nor anything, I guess more north of Latin America. I mean, Texas must be further south.
Then, if you want to know more about New Orleans, [spoiler]the main feature there by people of the area is this bay with a place called River Walk, except it's I mean big with a big place and I guess I realized later so many options to eat, like a mall of food but nothing that like catches your eye though it's very well done and very well tasteful, you get the picture. I mean, the shops there are like this little corner of like children's kites and stuff and then like a Mardi Gras shop, maybe a big one, with like masks, maybe big masks I think. I never really made myself feel like it was a part of me because I mean though I'm from a "pure" culture if not "the" pure culture, I'm not really open on making something like that like replace everyday life. I later learned it was French and grew more attracted to it. So, yes, I was big on food but busy. The hurricane came, my life was an experiment, so bye bye to that. Now, I'm in Orlando and can't afford to go to Disney World. I've lived here for 7½ years. I mean, I used to go every year with my friend. It's more fun, now, I must say. I went once, but I didn't go to the bathroom at that age. Didn't until an adult. Yes, college was an adventure. It wouldn't be, now. It was very surreal, and I had very complex interconnected feelings about things. I was in a lot of pain at 1 point and sad I was kicked out of my major, though it was probably for the best as I was staying up until like 5 A.M. It's neat, I went in 1996, and Ellen's Adventure opened soon after. That was a magical year, though I shudder to think why. That was the only summer I looked like that. I don't want to know "why I was 'bad,'" actually. I mean, you can want pity if your life isn't how you want. It was a big thing to not have older siblings and not have older young people in your life. I'm not sure "what" you're suggesting I do with my parents.
Yes, I guess I could make a lot of money, somehow, like if I became a kind of celebrity, and I could stay in New Orleans for like a month. I could walk around the city, eat out, buy stuff, throw it away?, watch the music, visit people I knew..?, wish I could be a part of something? Even at the high school music school, they don't seem active in the community. There's Talented Arts. I took regular art, and they put more than 1 of my art at this big concert they do once a year that features a Russian pianist. I loved this 1 year they had that famous song by Rachmaninoff. Hey, I spelled it right. I played piano, but I couldn't see myself playing all the hard stuff, for some reason. I know there are songs where it keeps your attention. They're not all like big classics the same way as Beethoven or the Christmas carols. They're not acclaimed in the same way as operas. They're more unspoken of. They might be mentioned in some situations. I wanted to learn them, badly. That was my problem. I did play some big classics, like Mozart but not "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." I had this really good recording of piano from Indonesia, like a tape of an unknown pianist and my mom's little sister is a piano teacher, did it since she was maybe around 6. It also had that famous song by Mozart that's gotten around.. "Rondo Alla Turca." I can play the beginning pretty much. I didn't really care about this kind of stuff. I like "The Great Gate at Kiev," which I think was transposed to piano or orchestra, not sure which was 1st. I also like from A Clockwork Orange, the CD, which is great, "Pomp and Circumstance," another movement that seems famous. I guess my experience in music as a kid was more nostalgic, an older kid. Like, sorta melodious and Celtic, listened to all of Enya and can pick out all my favorites but stopped when her fame was more widespread or spoken of. Supposedly, everyone in Florida knew "Orinoco Flow," which is otherwise more commonly known as "Sail Away." I'm not sure about other kids, but I'm guessing a lot never even bothered to try to play anything by ear. A piano teacher taught me to add chords to the melody. My friend like freaked in the background practicing right before a lesson, from New Jersey, saying it was stupid when her piano teacher had her do it because I did it. She always waited until the last minute and was of course in a lot of trouble.. I guess it caused a problem. Also, she took a little voice and was in choir for 1 mass and acted stuck up but no one cared because her parents were old and nice and she was short with white hair. She was always nice to me but acted racist when the classes split. When we moved, she was mean. She made me mad. I think she wanted to live in New Orleans but not with me. I was gonna live with her and even sat a day in her school. The kids I saw there and the teachers seemed to all like me. I had no idea what was on the test(s,) but it seemed like I figured it out well but didn't get it back and probably didn't really get it right though am not actually sure.
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