As requested....
I haven't updated in a long while, and I've been requested to do so by alicetotle.
Since February, my emotions have run the gamut. I've been delirioursly happy, insanely excited, and have also been in the dumps.
I completed all my courses, and I did alright in the end. I had a crazy april exam schedule, but I guess it was just so that I could leave Western with one more interesting tale to tell.
By mid-May, I got exciting news - I got the job that I wanted!! I was going back to Western to be a staff member with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada (NYOC). We'd be at Western from June 20-July 25, and then go on a 2-week tour of Ontario and Quebec, finishing off August 8th at Roy Thompson Hall here in Toronto.
I had my convocation on June 13th; click here for pictures. I couldn't believe that my ceremony was done after only one hour. It was a nice, intimate ceremony. Everyone could have sat in the lower section of Alumni Hall; or we could have all brought 10 guests per graduand! The only thing that was frustrating was that my closest friends were all graduating on a different day than me, or still had another year left at Western, etc. Oh, and I wasn't even in the program due to a stupid rule that if you write your last exam on or beyond May 1st, you're not included. And I wrote my last exam on May 1 because an absent-minded professor of mine (though he was a good prof, and gave me a good reference to help me get the NYOC job) FORGOT about my exam on April 30th!
Anyhow.... the rest of my summer was largely taken up by NYOC. It was great to be back at Western for a time, and campus is gorgeous during the summer. Lots of wildlife!! It's more relaxed, and it was nice to enjoy campus instead of having to run around to various lectures, labs, libraries... (ooh, an alliteration! LOL)
NYOC is made up of 92 musicians from across Canada (we had 7 provinces represented) who ranged from 15-28 years old. I got to meet some very talented, and really nice people. The whole experience was just amazing. It was a lot of work, and I had a lot to learn, but it was good!
And now.... I've been back in Toronto for about two weeks. I took the whole first week off. Didn't want to do anything about anything. But now, I need to face reality - I need to pay some bills, apply for jobs, and basically figure out what I'm going to do with my life now. I don't know whether I should go back to school or not - by this I mean pick up an english and a french course (so that down the line, I could go to teacher's college, and so I could teach in a french-language school). In some ways, I just want to take a break from school. But on the other hand, it would probably make sense to just get those 2 courses done and done, and then I don't have to do them at some point in the future.
The other thing that's on my mind is that I need to find a place that is uncluttered and not chaotic. My room is in shambles. I've lived in this house since I was 18 months old, and I have only ever moved to and from Western. A lot of my things are in boxes, and piled up on top of one another, and I don't really know where to start. I cannot sleep in my room right now, unless I were to sleep standing up.... which is becoming a problem.
In essence... I am in a place where I don't know what I want to do, and I am not sure which direction I should move in.
Any thoughts?
Since February, my emotions have run the gamut. I've been delirioursly happy, insanely excited, and have also been in the dumps.
I completed all my courses, and I did alright in the end. I had a crazy april exam schedule, but I guess it was just so that I could leave Western with one more interesting tale to tell.
By mid-May, I got exciting news - I got the job that I wanted!! I was going back to Western to be a staff member with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada (NYOC). We'd be at Western from June 20-July 25, and then go on a 2-week tour of Ontario and Quebec, finishing off August 8th at Roy Thompson Hall here in Toronto.
I had my convocation on June 13th; click here for pictures. I couldn't believe that my ceremony was done after only one hour. It was a nice, intimate ceremony. Everyone could have sat in the lower section of Alumni Hall; or we could have all brought 10 guests per graduand! The only thing that was frustrating was that my closest friends were all graduating on a different day than me, or still had another year left at Western, etc. Oh, and I wasn't even in the program due to a stupid rule that if you write your last exam on or beyond May 1st, you're not included. And I wrote my last exam on May 1 because an absent-minded professor of mine (though he was a good prof, and gave me a good reference to help me get the NYOC job) FORGOT about my exam on April 30th!
Anyhow.... the rest of my summer was largely taken up by NYOC. It was great to be back at Western for a time, and campus is gorgeous during the summer. Lots of wildlife!! It's more relaxed, and it was nice to enjoy campus instead of having to run around to various lectures, labs, libraries... (ooh, an alliteration! LOL)
NYOC is made up of 92 musicians from across Canada (we had 7 provinces represented) who ranged from 15-28 years old. I got to meet some very talented, and really nice people. The whole experience was just amazing. It was a lot of work, and I had a lot to learn, but it was good!
And now.... I've been back in Toronto for about two weeks. I took the whole first week off. Didn't want to do anything about anything. But now, I need to face reality - I need to pay some bills, apply for jobs, and basically figure out what I'm going to do with my life now. I don't know whether I should go back to school or not - by this I mean pick up an english and a french course (so that down the line, I could go to teacher's college, and so I could teach in a french-language school). In some ways, I just want to take a break from school. But on the other hand, it would probably make sense to just get those 2 courses done and done, and then I don't have to do them at some point in the future.
The other thing that's on my mind is that I need to find a place that is uncluttered and not chaotic. My room is in shambles. I've lived in this house since I was 18 months old, and I have only ever moved to and from Western. A lot of my things are in boxes, and piled up on top of one another, and I don't really know where to start. I cannot sleep in my room right now, unless I were to sleep standing up.... which is becoming a problem.
In essence... I am in a place where I don't know what I want to do, and I am not sure which direction I should move in.
Any thoughts?