"We're in a band!"

A couple weeks ago, Jaime (one of the international office directors) started making rounds asking if any students played instruments and would be interested in forming a band to play for "El Día de la Universidad" - University Day.  He ended up with a good core group composed of three exchange students and two Chileans (including himself); mid-last week we finally got around to meeting each other, choosing songs, and rehearsing.  We were a bit pressed for time and only had four days to fine tune everything, plus we were lacking a drummer so we had to figure out who would switch around instruments for which songs and all that jazz.  After two months without so much as touching a guitar, it was so refreshing to chill with a guitar in my lap and let my muscle memory do the work (even though my fingers were raw by the end of our first seven-hour jam...rough).  There was also some last-minute panic the night before the gig when we couldn't get ahold of a drumset and the other band playing before us refused to let us use theirs.  Everything fell together though, and Jaime, our self-proclaimed manager, calmed his nerves enough to shred a few killer solos on electric.  The performance was short - only a three-song set list - but all the rehearsals and late nights are what made it, and we all agreed that we want to keep playing and learning songs together, whether or not we have a gig to play.  

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