Weak Arm, Strong Heart Page 6
Marth Manga pg 6
drawn Feb 11, ’06
posted for Aug 1, 2007
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I’m baaaaaaack!
I had a great time in Calgary, meeting lots of nice people, three from last year, not including teachers. I played Simon Preston’s Alleluyas for Simon, and he seemed to like it. Those lots of nice people – there were only 14, not like last year, which was 18 – were three Korean girls, incluing Kwiho from last year, and a Japanese girl, Yu, and a bunch of Americans – so not quite as exotic as last year, but that’s okay. Three of the Americans are studying at Westminster (Canada) and one of them was here the year before I went the first time. Although they said this is the first year a Japanese student has come. Yu has beautiful handwriting. There were three Canadians – Mark, studying at Queen’s, Kingston, and Gwen and me. Mark’s a really great guy, and plays well, too. I think I was a lot less shy than last year because I talked to everyone without really… being shy. Last year it took a lot of courage to say ‘hi’ to Winand. This year was a much more fulfilling experience in that respect. I got to play on some horrible organs and some fantastic organs. If you go, and you’re scheduled to practice on the U of C practice organ, BEWARE. It has two working stops at this time. 8′ Swell flute and 16′ pedal reed. Ugh.
I tried to play the Zelda Wind Waker-style theme on the Theremin at the museum. Better than last year’s Fire Emblem, but not great still. I’m talking about the tune played while sailing on the Great Sea, where the notes go down to a IV chord after the run from I to V. If you know what I mean, which you probably don’t. Go see the Hylia and listen to the piece.
I also found a musical Wii at the museum, and played the beginning of my Bach on the theatre organ.
And I met a lady from Victoria on my flight back. Maybe I’ll see her around.
Now Cesar told me about something that I should join, but I can’t get on because it wants my university e-mail which I don’t have yet.
The rowan tree next door has red berries now.
I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since last camp. I had my digital camera, and I had just discovered Tsubasa… I found out that Yu is a BIG CLAMP fan. She almost screamed when I showed her my cell-phone screen, which has a background of Fai and Syaoran, just to say: here are some wierd people. I wasn’t actually expecting her to know (and love) them. Yay.
Ooh, and Marth returns in glory! As you can see, only about half the Smashers are pleased with that. And the kid is just some random announcer guy. He’s not the guy who talks during the game, he’s a different guy. The guy who says stuff like “Success!” and “Failure…” is a grown-up.
Whoa! That mysterious voice at the end of page 3 was Sheeda?!? How did she get there so quickly? Teleportation, I guess. Now poor old Marth really loses it. And that’s a looooooooooooooooooot of text. I’ll fix it in the colour version.
Okay, I have nooooo idea what Ellis looks like. Anyone, reference pictures? Please?
And here we find out the depth of Marth’s depression, and Roy takes action while a very handsome-looking Link (in panel 7) tries to comfort Marth. In panel 3 he’s trying googly cute eyes to make Marth laugh.