Clarinet love.

Day 16: A picture of someone who inspires you

Time for me being cheesy. I've taken lessons with her for one school year, and Dr McCandless is AMAZING. I've never met anyone who inspired me more.  I may not be one of her students that she focuses on the most, seeing as I'm not performance major, and far from one of the talented ones, but every lesson I've had with her led to me learning an incredible amount.  I never WANTED to practice in high school, but here I do want to.  Her talent with the clarinet is an inspiration, as well as her passion for teaching all of us.  She's told me so many times that she loves teaching our studio, and that she looks forward to it (almost) every day. If I ever get half of her talent, I'll be good to go. 

Today is the last official day of my first year of college! WEIRD. I'm sooo ready to get back to Urbandale (to my puppiieees :]), but I'm sure I'll miss UNI at some point.  Right now, I'm convinced I wont, but that's because I'm stressed from finals and slightly sad about a few things. After a few weeks I'll be wanting to come back. 

I already have a job i guess, which is new for me. I'm gonna be a nanny.. :P big money, i know. But I dont plan on keeping it anyway, so it's fine.  Practicing my butt off to get to Italy is also another of my plans. I will cry if I dont get in wind symphony. Crying is not a big deal these days, I'm all too used to it.  But basically..I plan on spending some time doing new things this summer, not just sitting on my butt watching greys like last summer.. I dont want to sit and wait for people to contact me this summer. 

I will miss people though...contrary to what some may believe, I'm not only going to miss my boyfriend. God forbid I hang out with someone who I know likes me most of the time. (yes, most of the time.) These 5 months of the past year have been rough for a lot of reasons, one of which is the fact that I may not have hung out with friends as much as they would've liked. There are a lot of reasons why, most of them being that I dont exactly like what my friends choose to do some nights. And I have every capability of saying no, I know that. But it's complicated. I feel like I'm not as into the friends part of college as I was at one point, and I know i'm not using my time as well as I should all of the time, and it sucks. But I also know that it can be fixed, and I can come back from this. I've had the best 5 months of my life, despite all the times i've been upset about something, all the bad grades in music classes, all the friends I may not be as close to. Next year will be a new start, and I'll know how to handle things better. This year was amazing, but next year will be even better. New roommate, new classes, new year. 

Finals Overview:

Mucho A's. Or like, 3. I dont know though, I'm not concerned with those...

I got a B- in Aural Training!!! I think it's a miracle. Or Dr Washut taking pity on me.

A on Sight Singing!!

Who knows on Theory..Keyboard component is probz an F.

Math:??? DONT CARE.

Jury: A-! Hoorah. :)

Only ones left? Piano and Lit. 

Bring it, Dr Guy.