events from before.
On 4/6 after I met with Lyle, I went to Christine and Brian's apartment to pick up Pepper. I stayed longer than expected because Christine and I let Pepper out in Brian's room and we talked a little. When I left it was raining.
I got home and looked up Woodside High School on Yahoo maps. Unfortunately, I looked up Woodside the city first and then searched for the high school, so I went to the wrong Woodside High. It turned out that the right one was Woodside Priori(?) High School in Portola Valley. I didn't find this out until I spent an hour in Woodside looking for the right place. I walked all over the high school and asked the custodian, coaches, students, any one I saw. No one had heard of M-Pact :( I even drove over to Woodside Elementary. I got hopeful when I heard music, but it was just a dance party. I called Kathy's and Mom serveral times to see if she left any messages for me. I drove back to the high school and talked to a police officer there. Disheartened, I drove home.
Once home, I went online again and this time looked up Woodside High School in the main search area. It led me to the high schools website. I saw M-Pact on the page, so I new this was the right one. When I scrolled all the way to the bottom of the page, there was the address, in Portola Valley. So, I wrote the directions and headed out again since it was still 8:40pm, it'll take me 20min to get there, and I figured the show would go till 10pm.Off I went, with hope again, though very tired. It took a u-turn, but I almost made it as far as the Arasterdero/Alpine intersection before I pulled into the Inn at Alpine and asked for directions. There was a jovial man who told me I was almost there and how to get to the high school. Then he asked why I wanted to go there at this time, was there a show or something? So I told him, yes, an a capella show. His face lit up and he started singing in German, "Deustschland, Deutschland, uber alles..." He was in a local a capella group and so was the man sitting near by. If I ever go that way again, I'll look for him :)
Well, so I got to the high school at 9:05pm--just as the group was wrapping up! :( I was disappointed that I missed the whole thing. Kathy and Carlo assured me that if I was ever going to miss a show by M-Pact, this was the one. Apparently they weren't too good that night. I paid Carlo for the ticket and borrowed $20 from Kathy to get the M-Pact:2 CD (what logic is that?). I got Jake, Marco, Brit, and Trist to sign the CD :) Guess it was disappointing, but not entirely.
I got home and looked up Woodside High School on Yahoo maps. Unfortunately, I looked up Woodside the city first and then searched for the high school, so I went to the wrong Woodside High. It turned out that the right one was Woodside Priori(?) High School in Portola Valley. I didn't find this out until I spent an hour in Woodside looking for the right place. I walked all over the high school and asked the custodian, coaches, students, any one I saw. No one had heard of M-Pact :( I even drove over to Woodside Elementary. I got hopeful when I heard music, but it was just a dance party. I called Kathy's and Mom serveral times to see if she left any messages for me. I drove back to the high school and talked to a police officer there. Disheartened, I drove home.
Once home, I went online again and this time looked up Woodside High School in the main search area. It led me to the high schools website. I saw M-Pact on the page, so I new this was the right one. When I scrolled all the way to the bottom of the page, there was the address, in Portola Valley. So, I wrote the directions and headed out again since it was still 8:40pm, it'll take me 20min to get there, and I figured the show would go till 10pm.Off I went, with hope again, though very tired. It took a u-turn, but I almost made it as far as the Arasterdero/Alpine intersection before I pulled into the Inn at Alpine and asked for directions. There was a jovial man who told me I was almost there and how to get to the high school. Then he asked why I wanted to go there at this time, was there a show or something? So I told him, yes, an a capella show. His face lit up and he started singing in German, "Deustschland, Deutschland, uber alles..." He was in a local a capella group and so was the man sitting near by. If I ever go that way again, I'll look for him :)
Well, so I got to the high school at 9:05pm--just as the group was wrapping up! :( I was disappointed that I missed the whole thing. Kathy and Carlo assured me that if I was ever going to miss a show by M-Pact, this was the one. Apparently they weren't too good that night. I paid Carlo for the ticket and borrowed $20 from Kathy to get the M-Pact:2 CD (what logic is that?). I got Jake, Marco, Brit, and Trist to sign the CD :) Guess it was disappointing, but not entirely.