when life was simple, without much homework...
Jeeze. Sophomore year - everything picks up in the first week! This past week was the first full one of the year and man was it took forever to end! But here we are on Saturday night, and everything is okay.
I guess an alternate title for the post would be "Keep Calm and Carry On". I had my OH MY GOSH AM I DOING THE RIGHT MAJOR crisis this past weekend. At least, it started - we'll see if it comes back up again over the course of the semester/year... *sigh* Lots of tears and worry, but also lots of hugs and supportive words from friends and my parents. Thanks to everybody who listened and gave me advice; it's nice to know that people care. The plan for now is to stay in my Music Ed. class for the semester. I had been thinking for most of this week that I'll probably switch to Vocal Performance at the end of the semester, but I'm not sure again. I've just got to talk to teachers, my peers, and give myself time to experience and give my heart time to decide. That's my problem, really - I'm not sure what's on my heart in terms of what I want in my future. I want bits of it all, but what is the best path for me to take to get there??
But everything is okay for now. I'm feeling peaceful again. I'm still busy though, of course. Between my classes and work, I hardly have time to practice piano, voice, and choir music! I'm still working on a solid schedule for my music practicing, but it'll happen. For now, I've had to sneak them in whenever I can. Everything is going well though. I'm excited for our plans for voice this year - lots of music to find. Advanced Keyboarding is going to be great and really practical. My instructor, Amy Grinsteiner, is pretty awesome. :) And, last but not least, I made it into Choir of the West this year! It is considered PLU's premiere choir, based on the intense musicality of the members. And, let me tell you, it is intense! In the past four days of rehersal this week we have learned the majority of 5 songs (maybe one or two more?). In just our first week of class! I'm sooo thrilled to be a part of it! And the cherry on top is that I get to go on the international tour to Germany and France at the end of May/beginning of June in 2011! WOOO EUROPE!!! hahaha.
In other news, I'm loving my other classes. Especially English 232 - Women's Literature. We're studying graphic novels and our first one was Wonder Woman: Rise of the Olympian. It was crazy! A lot of heavy themes, especially revolving around genocide. Not what you'd expect in a comic book whose main audience is teenage boys... I'm hoping that this class will also cover my 4 hours of literature requirement for my writing minor. It would make things so much easier!
Oh! An exciting thing about this weekend! I auditioned for PLU's Night of Musical Theatre last night and tonight. The singing auditions yesterday went peachy keen, but the dance auditions tonight went really great for me as well! I even got asked to stay to learn the "advanced" lyrical audition dance. I never would have expected that in a million years... really. But it wasn't that hard. I consider my dance skills about the same as my piano skills - I can, but not often and not that well... but apparently I'm at least okay. I think I need to start having a little more confidence in myself about those things. :) But it's been a while since I've danced and I'm already feeling the soreness. If I can get out of bed without falling over tomorrow, it will be a bit of a miracle. haha.
That's all I can think of for now! Maybe there will be another blog before the end of this month! hah. If not, talk to you in October! :)
Peace, love, & harmony,
<3 Erin
