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Yesterday Maryland went through one of those "let's do every season in one day!" days. In the morning when I was walking to the chem building for my first exam (an 8 AM, I might add...there's a reason I don't get up that early) it was so foggy you couldn't see more than about 50 feet in front of you. Then, later, it became an absolutely beautiful late spring/early summer day while I walked from CSPAC to Tawes for my jury. But naturally (or...not naturally?) it became a soggy, cold late fall day as i left Tawes to get my stuff from CSPAC and come back to my room and change. And then, in the evening, The fog from the morning was back. The streetlights illunimated it, making the whole North Campus look like one of those 1940's mystery movies. It was nice.
Right now I'm in the Performing Arts Library doing some studying for MUET, which right now pretty much consists of listening to examples of Middle Eastern music. Part of the exam is listening, where he plays a piece and you have to identify where it came from and then some other information about it, depending on what he asks (right now I'm listening to "Ussak Taksim", part of a Turkish Fasil, a suite of pieces, if you were curious). MUET220 is the class on world music that all the music majors have to take even though few if any of us want to, so I really want an A. That test is at 1:30, then my only test left is Italian tomorrow at 10:30 and then I'm done for the semester *does happy dance*
Yesterday was my anthropology final (did fine, got a B in the class) and my jury. The first day of juries this semester were in the Ulrich Recital Hall in the Tawes Fine Arts Building, which is where the music and theater departments were housed until CSPAC was built about six years ago. Now that's all fine and good, but I had only been in Ulrich once before, and had never sung in there. So that was a bit unsettling. Felt more like an audition than a jury with such an unfamiliar space to work with, but what can you do? Once I got used to the realllly wet room that the Ulrich is, the jury itself went fine. Made up a few German words in "Die Forelle" but considering I finished memorizing it the day before I was pleased. One more thing done.
(PS, I have found in the past few weeks that checking things off lists is one of the most pleasing activities one can participate in. If you've never done it, you simply must try it sometime.)
K, time to go type up notes and such.
27 days till Israel :-)
Right now I'm in the Performing Arts Library doing some studying for MUET, which right now pretty much consists of listening to examples of Middle Eastern music. Part of the exam is listening, where he plays a piece and you have to identify where it came from and then some other information about it, depending on what he asks (right now I'm listening to "Ussak Taksim", part of a Turkish Fasil, a suite of pieces, if you were curious). MUET220 is the class on world music that all the music majors have to take even though few if any of us want to, so I really want an A. That test is at 1:30, then my only test left is Italian tomorrow at 10:30 and then I'm done for the semester *does happy dance*
Yesterday was my anthropology final (did fine, got a B in the class) and my jury. The first day of juries this semester were in the Ulrich Recital Hall in the Tawes Fine Arts Building, which is where the music and theater departments were housed until CSPAC was built about six years ago. Now that's all fine and good, but I had only been in Ulrich once before, and had never sung in there. So that was a bit unsettling. Felt more like an audition than a jury with such an unfamiliar space to work with, but what can you do? Once I got used to the realllly wet room that the Ulrich is, the jury itself went fine. Made up a few German words in "Die Forelle" but considering I finished memorizing it the day before I was pleased. One more thing done.
(PS, I have found in the past few weeks that checking things off lists is one of the most pleasing activities one can participate in. If you've never done it, you simply must try it sometime.)
K, time to go type up notes and such.
27 days till Israel :-)