Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?

  I started playing the violin when I was eight years old, and at first, I hated it. Before playing the violin, I had learned to play the piano and unlike the violin the piano makes sounds when pressing the keys. However, in the case of the violin, there are no fixed keys and I must press the right place to make correct notes.

  Then, when I started to go to middle school, I signed up for the school orchestra. The orchestra from my middle school was very big, with about 100 students participating in it. As I practiced with my friends and seniors, I started to love it, which also lead to me loving the violin.

  Because we participated in a lot of competitions and concerts, we had a lot of practice. We usually spent about 7 hours a week in the orchestra practice room, and if there was an important event like an orchestra competition or our orchestra’s annual concert, we spent at least 3 hours there each day. So, about a thousand hours of my middle school life was spent in the orchestra practice room.

  In my last year of middle school, I became the concert master. I had a lot of responsibility, but I also had my entrance examinations for KMLA. Additionally, because I was the concert master, I had a violin solo at the annual orchestra concert which was 4 days after my last entrance examination. So, after my classes, I ran straight to the orchestra practice room and practiced for 2 hours, then ran home and prepared for my entrance examinations. My last year of middle school, was a very crazy one, because of the many big events throughout the year.

  So, from my explanation about my experiences from the school orchestra, you may think that it was very hard and tiring and wonder how the orchestra practice room makes me feel perfectly content. Yes, it was not a place that made me perfectly content when I was a member of the orchestra. But now, it is.

  I made a lot of happy memories as well as the tough ones in the orchestra practice room. Because we spent so many hours there, we did various things there from eating pizza together, playing games, and napping on the floor lying down side by side. After classes, I was able to play music with my close friends and seniors and it was not because we had to but because we wanted to. The orchestra practice room was more like home than a practice room. My difficulties may have outweighed my happy memories then, but not anymore.

  Also, because I spent such a crazy last year of middle school, when I go there now to meet my juniors, I feel perfectly content and comfortable. It also makes me remember my crazy year, which helps me muster up my spirits and fill up my energy for my life at KMLA.