So the count-down to the end of the school year has officially begun. There are five weeks left of my Freshman year.
I guess I have mixed feeling about this. I'm glad that there won't be school for three months, but at the same time, I'll be away from all of my good friends here for three months and I'll be working (and possibly taking a summer class). Also, we're moving. My mom, my sister, and I, I mean. Come August, the van will be stuffed full of boxes and we'll be driving across Kansas, Missouri, Southern Illinois, and Souther Indiana to make a new home in Lexington, Kentucky. I'm not so sure I like this. Yes, I'll be closer to school and to many of my new-found friends, but I'll have to leave my beloved mountains behind, not to mention friends I've had since kindergarten and my two beautiful dogs. I guess that's an idicator that I don't really want my life to change. However, change is inevitable. In fact, that was one of the reason why I chose UE. I wanted something new. I wanted new faces and a chance to be a new me. But I still wanted to have my "base of operations" in Colorado. Besides, Kentucky will never really be home to me. I spent my formative years in Boulder, not Lexington.
I detest the violin because, in my opinion, it, as well as other stringed instruments (witht he exception of the harp and its family members), is one of the most difficult instructments to play when it come to the technical stuff. Pianists have it easy: the notes are all layed out right there; no guess work involved in that one! Just plunk down your finger and....GASP! It's a miracle! I played a perfectly in tune fourth octave C!!!!! (If any of you who read this are pianists, please don't take this personally). I understand that wind and brass instruments are hard because you have to breathe in order to make a sound and if you don't breathe in the right way then you only receive a considerably awful sounding squak for your efforts, but you still only have to press down a bunch of keys inorder to get the correct notes (I know it's different for brass, but, frankly, this is my rant so I'm not going to acknowledge that. No offense meant). With us wonderful stringed instruments there's so many things you can do in order to sound like a dying cat. If you play too far over the fingerboard, if your finger doesn't have enough pressure on the string, if your peg slips (and that, by the way, is one of the most annoying things to happen), if you play too close to the bridge, if you apply too much pressure on the bow, if there's not enough pressure on the bow, if you don't use enough bow, if you use too little bow, if our fingering isn't correct, I could on and on and on and on. So that is why I detest the violin, especially when I have to play fast extremely high notes.
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So there is officially one and a half months left in the school year. Spring Break has been over for a week. Easter Break is next weekend. It's amazing how time flies, huh?
I've signed up for my room next year with a Korean girl from Schraeder. We'll be on the GLC! Yeah! It should be a blast as a lot of my friends are going to be on the GLC too! (GLC stands for Global Living Community).
I've also registered for classes. I'll be taking Introduction to Schools, Teachers and Learners; Teaching Strategies in K-12 Schools; French Civilization; Adult Health and Wellness; Intermediate Japanese I; Child and Adolescent Psychology; and Intoduction to Sociology. This makes a total of 19 credits. It will be a busy semester, but much of what I'm will be taking I need to take.
And with all of this comes the added pressure of a ton of homework. With six weeks left I have a test nearly every week, and at least one paper due every week as well. Joy? I think not.