First Week of School

So, this past week has been my first week of second semester classes.   My schedule this semester is going to be sooooo busy.... but I think it'll ok.  

In RA life,  all my residents are back.  I'm keeping my door open as much as possible so that my residents can get to know me.  They seem really sweet.  We had our first floor meeting which was kinda nerve racking, being introduced to 50 people at once, but it still went well.  I'm staying very organized with my palm pilot, as long as I have that I'll be fine. 

 Theory will be, well theory, but I'm not lost yet so that's good.  

Women's chorus is the same as usual, we have a concert in a little over a month.  

 American Education is a little boring, but actually really interesting.  I learned that the starting rate for teachers in Illinios is $43,000.  And then after five years you get an automatic $10,000 raise....so I'm looking at about $53,000 eventually.  Which isn't bad... I thought I was going to get like.....30 grad tops.  lol.  So that is really good.   

Music History is a lot better.  He changed the format of the tests to all multiple choice cause so many people were doing bad.  And plus it is folk music and stuff (maple leaf rag, pop music).... stuff I can actually distinct from one another and interests me.   

Italian will be good, I love my teacher and taking that class already has helped me in choir and voice lesson (good idea on my part).

I had my first voice lesson today,  it went amazing.  She gave me this Italian Aria that I TOTALLY LOVE and relate to!   It goes up to high A's, all over the place...and today for some reason I was ON!  BOOYAH!  I was hitting those A's like nothing,  I got up to a D!  A high D!  That's insane!  But yea the last time we sang through it my teacher goes "Brava!"  and claps and that was the best moment ever!  We talked about my jury and what happened and she was upset with a bunch of things and she is emailing someone about it I guess... I said it was fine since I got an A, 94.8 a little low but I'll take it, anyway.  But she wants to.

Tomorrow I head for Peoria Il. for IMEA (Illinois Music Educator Association) conference.  It's always a lot of fun and I'm excited to see all the different workshops.  Should be back late Friday night!