Starting classes

College has officially started. I have now gone through my whole schedule with the exception of one class which is only on Wednesdays. I am proud to announce that I made it to all of my classes without getting lost or being late! I do have 8 and 8:30 morning classes so I'm very proud of that.

Yesterday my first class was history at 8 a.m. and can I say my teacher is very intense. He is a historian so he's very hardcore history...like Andrea. We started taking notes already and he told us that if we miss class we'll fail cause most of any test is based off his lectures, so miss a lecture fail the class. Exciting I know. Math was so easy after that, then i had a break before going to my first theory class, which gave me homework.

Then on to recital hour which is every Monday and I can't miss any of them because I'm a music major. Fun. Then I had harp ensemble which was much better. We didn't play yesterday because we had to work out private lesson schedules and then Peter Wiley (i don't know how to spell his last name) taught us how to change our base wires, which is really great cause I don't really ever change my own strings. I generally pay John to change them all every couple years, so it was completely new for me. He also taught me that to hear the very low base wire strings for tuning and things to pluck it up by the disks because you hear the actually pitch better up there. (For you non-harpists its ok if you don't care, it was just really exciting for me).

Today I had piano group at 8:30 in the morning. My professor is from Japan and has a really thick accent, but I needed my piano text book by thursday but lo and behold it was the one book on backorder. So, I had to go to the book store in the village to get a hold of the book and I then went back later today to get my english books. Moral of the story, I hate textbooks. Period.

I also had english today. That professor is really really informal, he swore a couple times in class but other than that I think I'm really going to enjoy his class. OH! The best news of the day was I didn't have to go to orchestra rehearsal!!!!! That saved me three hours today in which to begin homework, do this blog, practice more, (I've practiced twice today. Yes, be proud) and get more in control. So now I am much more relaxed. I hope high school is going well for those still in it, and that life is great for those who have graduated.

Love you all!
Valerie