ATLANTA => ATALANTA

HOLY CRAP!!!!!! ATLANTA IS IN 3 DAYS!!!!!!! I AM SO EXCITED!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

No! I'm becoming like Claudia and her smiley faces! (no offense, claudia.)

BUT I'M JUST SO EXCITED! I CAN'T WAIT!

However, I know some of you aren't going (well, a lot of you), so I will make it easier for you guys to read this by comparing Orchestra to Greek Mythology.

So as you know, Orchestra is going to ATLANTA!!!!!!!! to perform. But isn't there a person in Greek Mythology named Atalanta?? (I read ahead. :/)
-checking our mythology book *flips pages*-
Ok. I got it. So lemme give you a brief summary of Atalanta:
So she was born (a princess), and her dad wanted a boy, so he left her on a mountain to die. Then a mom-bear found her and thought it was her cub or something, so she raised her.

Then there was this guy, Meleager (stupid name...sounds like eager, if you ask me, but hey....it's Greek!) and Atropos (one of the Fates) visited his mom and said that if this one stick remained unburnt, then Meleager would remain alive. So his mom went all paranoid, and locked the stick in a brass case, which means no air, which means no fire. Capiche?? (is that how you spell it?)

So this prince, Meleager, was "different", because all he wanted to do was hunt, and didn't care about girls because apparently all men in Greece should do choose their wife. Anyways, later he was the best hunter in Greece.

So one day he was hunting this freakin' bear, and he lost track of it, but followed its blood trail. There he met Atalanta, and they started wrestling. O.o. Then Atalanta went unconcious, and somehow she awoke sitting with Meleager under a tree and they fell in love apparently...

Then word came to Artemis and she got mad, so she created this super big evil boar to kill everyone.

Long story short, the boar was killed by Atalanta, Meleager, and a bunch of other great heroes.
Meleager's mom was mad that he fell in love with Atalanta, and he killed her brothers because they made him mad, so she killed Meleager.

Atalanta was super sad, so she went back to her regular home before she was left on a mountain to die. She didn't wanna marry anyone, so she said that she would have a race with people, and if they won, they could marry her, but if they lost, she beheaded them. She was a very nice person, very nice.

But there was this guy Hippomenes (HIPPO!!! HAHAHAHAH), and he was "madly in love" with Atalanta, so he insisted on racing. He prayed to Aphrodite, and she gave him 3 golden apples. (I know, a nice way to win against Atalanta, huh?) But these apples gave Atalanta "memories" (I don't know how else to explain it), and she was distracted enough so that Hippomenes could win the race. Hooray! He wins!

But that's SO WEIRD. ATLANTA => ATALANTA. All you need to add is just an "A"! I wonder if Atlanta is named after Atalanta....that would be kinda weird though. I mean, we're not a very strong Greek country.

But I hope you liked my Greek mythology lesson!