Wow, it's been a while since my last post. I guess it's time for an update...as I'm procrastinating studying for my music history midterm, which is tomorrow. Ok, let's see...this past month has been quite eventful. I still don't have a job, so I'm freaking a little, but I'm hoping something will turn up soon, and I keep applying to job postings on Kajijii.
As for school, everything has been going really well. My voice lessons are going really awesome this year, so I'm really excited about that. I performed in Masterclass a week ago, the video is on facebook if you want to check it out. I'm getting more and more comfortable taking on the roles of the characters I am faced with in my songs. You can't see with this video, but the working video (that's too long to post on facebook) you can see me really getting into it and being the character, with encouragement from my audience and instructor.
I have only 2 midterms left, my aforementioned music history one tomorrow, and a conducting terminology one on Thursday. I'm not too worried about that one though. All it is is terms in French, German, and Italian and we have to translate them into English...and they're all music terms that we use on a regular basis, so it's pretty easy.
My social life has really taken off the past few weeks. I've gotten to know a bunch of new people and have been to many late-night parties and movie nights. We even held our own halloween party at our house this past Saturday and about 35 people showed up, so it was good! We had our friend DJ and everything so it was a lot of fun.
As for church, I got called 2 weeks ago as the choir director! I'm really excited this time around, since my conducting class is actually helping me learn things I need to in order to direct the choir properly. I expected maybe 10-12 people to show up yesterday for our first practice, but I was pleastantly surprised when about 25 people showed up! We even have 8 basses! It's totally awesome. I love it. I'm really looking forward to starting Christmas music for our program in December, so we'll see how it goes! Hopefully I can keep people motivated to come.
That's pretty much it for now. I'll try to give another update soon, but we'll see!
Until next time,
-J
