Today is our 7th snow day of the year.  It's weird because snow days in Avon only really happened around 30% of the time you thought they might.  I think it is close to any time we get snow = snow day here.  It is fun, but I think we are currently going to be going to school through June 2nd ( Read more... )

After Spring Break, I will only have 5 weeks left until college graduation.  All in all, student teaching hasn't been NEARLY as bad as I had prepared for.  My middle school placement was awesome.  I'm at Warren Central right now and it's going pretty well.  The only downside there is that there is not a lot of stuff for me to actually do, so I am ( Read more... )

 So, most of you guys already know, but my car is more than likely totaled.  The funny thing is that I wasn't even in it and it didn't get hit by a car.  Here's what happened: I took it in to get the coolant system flushed and to check out my struts and when they put it on the lift, they dropped it.  So yeah, my car fell off the lift at the shop.  ( Read more... )

Junior year was weird as far as being a teacher goes.  It was kind of a transitional year where you are no longer focusing so much on what you need to do to be a good student and more on what it takes to be a great teacher.  It all kind of caught be off guard at first.  I remember my first lesson I taught in Cheryl West's General Music class, about ( Read more... )

Things are getting interesting.  My recital is March 25 and I am getting all of that stuff ready.  Spring Break is just 2 weeks away!  I have a Crown camp on the weekend before that.  Totally not ready for that yet.  Apparently I am going camping with Becca over break.  Still gotta get that finalized.  I am the FEO for my fraternity and we are ( Read more... )

I have had finals this week, continuing into next week.  How, you ask?  Because I am in the Jordan College of Fine Arts and they are kick ass like that.  It's cool though.  I have dominated thus far.  Today I chilled for a couple hours, after I took my Strings Methods final, turned in my Concepts of Education 7 page paper, and then turned in my ( Read more... )

Life here in the 4240 Sunset is pretty sweet.  We are once again going to battle against SAI in capture the flag next friday.  We wrote out this big ridiculous declaration of war against them.  Yesterday we were playing "Artificial Bebop" in Jazz Ensemble and I got moved up to lead trumpet for that, which was kind of weird.  Just out of the blue ( Read more... )

This summer went pretty well.  I learned a lot about myself, music, relationships, leadership, and frustration.  We ended in 8th place, but the crowd response we got at awards was probably the coolest thing of my life.  I am really happy I have one more year left as horn segeant.  I think I know what kind of leader I want to be next year.  ( Read more... )

Well, I am heading on out Thursday morning.  I'll be back August 13.  These summers seem like they get longer and longer every year.  This is my 3rd of 4 years doing the drum corps thing.  Hard to believe.  It feels like I'm getting there so much earlier than Evan, Dan and the rest of the Avon crew.  Sorry again to all the seniors parties I can't ( Read more... )

This weekend ruled. I went to my 4th and final prom. It was awesome to just go nuts and be ridiculous, not caring because I don't go to Avon anymore. The Murat was kind of weird, but still cool in its own self. Becca looked absolutely gorgeous. I really can't think of anything that didn't go extremely well and wasn't freaking awesome except ( Read more... )