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So I've officially survived the first two days of school, except for the fact that yesterday we didn't even have any classes until noon. We got enough snow that they "delayed opening the school for four hours", which means that instead of having an 8:30, I had a 1 pm. Tomorrow I have an 8:30, and it'll be my really really long day. But Thursday won't be bad (I'm supposed to see Sarah -and- Mike) and then on Friday, I believe that I get to find out what my placement is for TE100. I'm really excited about that, especially since I need to get started soon so that I can get all of my 80 hours in without having to miss going home for spring break.
Speaking of spring break... it's not -officially- my spring break, but I do get to go to Florida in May! Mom's going to a conference, and Jenn's going down for a bit, and I'm going down... because it'll be the first real vacation that I've had in a long time. We're staying at one of the Disney resorts, and so I'm pretty excited about it. I'm kind of thinking of it as my reward for surviving this semester.
I'm still not completely sure what to think of all of my classes. I'm taking Secondary Ensembles and Middle School Music (which pretty much go together), Keyboard Harmony (not forseeing lots of problems), Musical Analysis (it's been a semester since I did any analysis, but this should be fun), Music History II (covering Baroque/Classical/Romantic, so I get to do Bach and Beethoven and the like), Percussion Ensemble/Percussion Lessons (had a bad lesson today, sorry, when you say SIGHT reading, I think that you're not going to interrupt me all the time), Psych of Learning (which is only slightly different than Ed Psych), Concert Band (easy), and Exploration in Teaching, or whatever they call TE100. Work might be a little crazy, but that just means that I have to work better on budgeting my time and making sure that I get the things that need to be done... done. But that'll be good for me. And Joe and I are going to start working on a new piece, it's called Qing Feng, and it's for soprano saxophone and marimba. It's four different movements, and it sounds really cool. He said he was going to buy it today, and we're going to work on putting it together for the student recital next year. From the descriptions, it sounds like it'll be really cool, I hope that it's just not lame marimba parts with awesome saxophone parts, there's always that possibility. :P
I'm still working on trying to get my room set up exactly how I want it. I brought a bunch of stuff home, and then brought more back with me. I need to find a place for my new cooking stuff to go, and then that pile will get out of my room. Then I just have to find the box to put all my yarn back in, and finish going through all my clothes and organizing them. The problem is that I get to the point where I'm almost done, then I get distracted, and then I don't get it done before I go to bed and just dump stuff everywhere.
So I'm watching Gilmore GIrls/American Idol tonight. The only reason that I'm watching Idol is because it's the first week, which means that we get to see all the people who are absolutely horrible and should never be allowed to sing... belting their hearts out on national TV. It's kind of a kick. If I can find a tape, I shall attempt to record it for Sarah, if I can figure out how to program it without just recording whatever I have on the TV... if that's possible, I don't know if it is or not. Well, I'll try at least. :) Maybe I just won't watch Gilmore Girls. *shrugs* I shall figure something out, fo sho.
Anyway, time to go find food/finish cleaning my room. Later :)
Speaking of spring break... it's not -officially- my spring break, but I do get to go to Florida in May! Mom's going to a conference, and Jenn's going down for a bit, and I'm going down... because it'll be the first real vacation that I've had in a long time. We're staying at one of the Disney resorts, and so I'm pretty excited about it. I'm kind of thinking of it as my reward for surviving this semester.
I'm still not completely sure what to think of all of my classes. I'm taking Secondary Ensembles and Middle School Music (which pretty much go together), Keyboard Harmony (not forseeing lots of problems), Musical Analysis (it's been a semester since I did any analysis, but this should be fun), Music History II (covering Baroque/Classical/Romantic, so I get to do Bach and Beethoven and the like), Percussion Ensemble/Percussion Lessons (had a bad lesson today, sorry, when you say SIGHT reading, I think that you're not going to interrupt me all the time), Psych of Learning (which is only slightly different than Ed Psych), Concert Band (easy), and Exploration in Teaching, or whatever they call TE100. Work might be a little crazy, but that just means that I have to work better on budgeting my time and making sure that I get the things that need to be done... done. But that'll be good for me. And Joe and I are going to start working on a new piece, it's called Qing Feng, and it's for soprano saxophone and marimba. It's four different movements, and it sounds really cool. He said he was going to buy it today, and we're going to work on putting it together for the student recital next year. From the descriptions, it sounds like it'll be really cool, I hope that it's just not lame marimba parts with awesome saxophone parts, there's always that possibility. :P
I'm still working on trying to get my room set up exactly how I want it. I brought a bunch of stuff home, and then brought more back with me. I need to find a place for my new cooking stuff to go, and then that pile will get out of my room. Then I just have to find the box to put all my yarn back in, and finish going through all my clothes and organizing them. The problem is that I get to the point where I'm almost done, then I get distracted, and then I don't get it done before I go to bed and just dump stuff everywhere.
So I'm watching Gilmore GIrls/American Idol tonight. The only reason that I'm watching Idol is because it's the first week, which means that we get to see all the people who are absolutely horrible and should never be allowed to sing... belting their hearts out on national TV. It's kind of a kick. If I can find a tape, I shall attempt to record it for Sarah, if I can figure out how to program it without just recording whatever I have on the TV... if that's possible, I don't know if it is or not. Well, I'll try at least. :) Maybe I just won't watch Gilmore Girls. *shrugs* I shall figure something out, fo sho.
Anyway, time to go find food/finish cleaning my room. Later :)