the "singing mosquitoes..."
i suppose i better post, or else i would break my trend of posting sundays, wednesdays, and fridays... that was by accident, in all honesty, haha! or i could go against my OCD tendencies, and NOT post...
pfft, yeah right... post it is...
monday was pretty awesome... decided to sleep in and take a risk at missing a pop quiz in adventist heritage, but i needed the extra hour of sleep after the intense weekend... it made that much of a difference... had a positive organ lesson, listen to kara vent before music history, and headed to icantori... rasmussen had an emergency situation to deal with, which led to mrs rasmussen leading out... she called the second tenors a "bunch of mosquitoes singing," which cracked me up to no ends... she had us split in choirs across the room, and i was laughing so hard after something matt told me that i caused the entire "choir awesome" to stop singing except the first sopranos... mrs rasmussen even let us out early, which allowed me to grab lunch... talked to cory on the way up about finding patience in certain situations, since things aren't always going to be going in our favor... in my situation, i need to accept the fact that i'm a leader of a section, and that people are gonna rely on me, even if i don't want them to...
hectic day comes to an end, helped cory find a nice quiet place to study all night using the power i have with the keys i own, had dinner with nadia and janer before bells and talking about tour, made smiles across the room at kara and jaylene during organ performance class, turned the padded handbell tables into makeshift beds for amy, michelle, and i, and at night, i helped jordan online plan his freshman year schedule, as well as confirm some plans for next year... so jordan's gonna be my roommate for next year, which is gonna be awesome...
tuesday, had a pretty good piano lesson with dr wheeler, who was very open to giving me songs that i would enjoy... got to have some pretty good paulin hangout time with jordan and annie... found out that the middle level of the steps leading to the second floor is a pretty comfortable place to hang out... ended up hanging out for almost two hours before flaking on a bell rehearsal... oops? met with kara that night to go over some music history homework, and ended up talking until almost 11 about others taking certain individuals for granted, as well as recent developments in our lives...
today, had another awesome organ lesson... i've been having some pretty good ones lately, which leaves rasmussen and myself satisfied... i think i'm really getting the hang of it... he wants me to perform for a master class given by his undergrad organ professor, who's coming up this weekend... that should be exciting... in music history, it was purely discussion based, and in discussing topics with dr davis, music's definitely what interests me... mcgraw made a jab at the right side of the room a couple of days ago for not speaking up... i just have nothing to add to the discussion about adventist heritage that is of any relevance, so i choose not to speak up... i speak up all the time in my ESL teaching class, b/c i have a lot to offer (realized that mr kim's horrible teaching antics still have a negative effect on me... i found myself trembling after sharing some stories about bad teaching practices in class)...
icantori's rehearsal was a bit on the edgy side today... if only rasmussen would understand sometimes that icantori needs to be a positive environment for the members in order for us to want to continue to remain members... the moment it is not fun, the level of dedication seems to diminish... maybe i'll tell him that sometime... we're not talking to be purposefully disruptive; we talk and laugh to have fun, which is what being in ensembles should be about...
talked with chris kam on the way down from ESL teaching about what teaching should be about, since we have contact with people that aren't gonna be effective teachers in our class... in comp tech, we made gradebooks on excel... who would've thought that it would've been an amazingly fun process! i could spend my free time making gradebooks! our class seemed to be on the fun side today, and i love the people in that class, all 6 of them... brittany even brought ice cream to share with everyone...
mrs rasmussen also planned an ice cream party for bells, and when we were eating, we all shared sibling stories... it was nice to hear some of mrs rasmussen's childhood stories; i love mrs rasmussen, and am glad that she's a teacher here at PUC... she told us after we rehearsed for a couple of minutes that she sincerely enjoyed our group, and how we play... apparently, we moved her through our playing this past weekend, and when we rehearsed the piece, it brought back the flood of emotions she felt that sabbath... wow, she must be going through some hard thought processes right now... i know that when i'm struggling, little things tend to set me off emotionally...
decided not to go on the wind ensemble tour this weekend, which resulted in an email chain from corzie, wishing that i went... if i knew that he was going, i would've went in a heartbeat! oh well...
so i'm really on top of things this quarter... i'm ahead on my papers, ordered books for my music history research topic (the film composing process), and seem to be learning my music at a good pace... awesome sauce! hopefully my scholastic life continues to be on track, haha! so i registered for my final year at PUC:
*student teaching in the fall...
*stats/great books/us history/geometries in the winter...
*acts & general epistles/us history/geometries/music ed III/senior recital/senior seminar in the spring...
wow... i'm graduating next year... i know it's an entire year away, but it's so surreal... i'd hate to imagine what it'd feel like if i were graduating in 6 weeks...
pfft, yeah right... post it is...
monday was pretty awesome... decided to sleep in and take a risk at missing a pop quiz in adventist heritage, but i needed the extra hour of sleep after the intense weekend... it made that much of a difference... had a positive organ lesson, listen to kara vent before music history, and headed to icantori... rasmussen had an emergency situation to deal with, which led to mrs rasmussen leading out... she called the second tenors a "bunch of mosquitoes singing," which cracked me up to no ends... she had us split in choirs across the room, and i was laughing so hard after something matt told me that i caused the entire "choir awesome" to stop singing except the first sopranos... mrs rasmussen even let us out early, which allowed me to grab lunch... talked to cory on the way up about finding patience in certain situations, since things aren't always going to be going in our favor... in my situation, i need to accept the fact that i'm a leader of a section, and that people are gonna rely on me, even if i don't want them to...
hectic day comes to an end, helped cory find a nice quiet place to study all night using the power i have with the keys i own, had dinner with nadia and janer before bells and talking about tour, made smiles across the room at kara and jaylene during organ performance class, turned the padded handbell tables into makeshift beds for amy, michelle, and i, and at night, i helped jordan online plan his freshman year schedule, as well as confirm some plans for next year... so jordan's gonna be my roommate for next year, which is gonna be awesome...
tuesday, had a pretty good piano lesson with dr wheeler, who was very open to giving me songs that i would enjoy... got to have some pretty good paulin hangout time with jordan and annie... found out that the middle level of the steps leading to the second floor is a pretty comfortable place to hang out... ended up hanging out for almost two hours before flaking on a bell rehearsal... oops? met with kara that night to go over some music history homework, and ended up talking until almost 11 about others taking certain individuals for granted, as well as recent developments in our lives...
today, had another awesome organ lesson... i've been having some pretty good ones lately, which leaves rasmussen and myself satisfied... i think i'm really getting the hang of it... he wants me to perform for a master class given by his undergrad organ professor, who's coming up this weekend... that should be exciting... in music history, it was purely discussion based, and in discussing topics with dr davis, music's definitely what interests me... mcgraw made a jab at the right side of the room a couple of days ago for not speaking up... i just have nothing to add to the discussion about adventist heritage that is of any relevance, so i choose not to speak up... i speak up all the time in my ESL teaching class, b/c i have a lot to offer (realized that mr kim's horrible teaching antics still have a negative effect on me... i found myself trembling after sharing some stories about bad teaching practices in class)...
icantori's rehearsal was a bit on the edgy side today... if only rasmussen would understand sometimes that icantori needs to be a positive environment for the members in order for us to want to continue to remain members... the moment it is not fun, the level of dedication seems to diminish... maybe i'll tell him that sometime... we're not talking to be purposefully disruptive; we talk and laugh to have fun, which is what being in ensembles should be about...
talked with chris kam on the way down from ESL teaching about what teaching should be about, since we have contact with people that aren't gonna be effective teachers in our class... in comp tech, we made gradebooks on excel... who would've thought that it would've been an amazingly fun process! i could spend my free time making gradebooks! our class seemed to be on the fun side today, and i love the people in that class, all 6 of them... brittany even brought ice cream to share with everyone...
mrs rasmussen also planned an ice cream party for bells, and when we were eating, we all shared sibling stories... it was nice to hear some of mrs rasmussen's childhood stories; i love mrs rasmussen, and am glad that she's a teacher here at PUC... she told us after we rehearsed for a couple of minutes that she sincerely enjoyed our group, and how we play... apparently, we moved her through our playing this past weekend, and when we rehearsed the piece, it brought back the flood of emotions she felt that sabbath... wow, she must be going through some hard thought processes right now... i know that when i'm struggling, little things tend to set me off emotionally...
decided not to go on the wind ensemble tour this weekend, which resulted in an email chain from corzie, wishing that i went... if i knew that he was going, i would've went in a heartbeat! oh well...
so i'm really on top of things this quarter... i'm ahead on my papers, ordered books for my music history research topic (the film composing process), and seem to be learning my music at a good pace... awesome sauce! hopefully my scholastic life continues to be on track, haha! so i registered for my final year at PUC:
*student teaching in the fall...
*stats/great books/us history/geometries in the winter...
*acts & general epistles/us history/geometries/music ed III/senior recital/senior seminar in the spring...
wow... i'm graduating next year... i know it's an entire year away, but it's so surreal... i'd hate to imagine what it'd feel like if i were graduating in 6 weeks...