so it's been an interesting week. had a really crappy day tuesday-not so bad until solfege. we were working on figured bass and i got called up to the board to realize the figured bass already written on the board. i had that deer in the headlights moment and froze. it all just looked like numbers to me and i couldn't think. o i ended up crying-i ( Read more... )

hah! it's been a pretty interesting couple of days. let's see...sunday, 20 of us from the institute went to a Mozart concert in Budapest. it was pretty great! no interpretive dancers, but it was still pretty darn good :) They sang the songs from Mozart's (formerly) unfinished opera, which Kati Sutrely's(choir director/gen music teacher) fiance ( Read more... )

ok, yesterday was pretty weird....Rachel and I traveled to Tesco(british wal-mart-ish store) to find ingredients to make popcorn balls for the halloween party. while we were waiting for the bus at the station, there was this "family" of homeless looking people on the other side of the street. and all of a sudden the lady starts yelling and pointing ( Read more... )

this week has gone by super fast! i can't believe there's only 5 weeks of class left before christmas break! i was thinking about that yesterday and i was like "bwah? but i just got here?! how can it be almost halfway through the school year?" it makes me sad b/c rachel(and steve and jenny) go home at christmas and don't come back in january :( it' ( Read more... )

ok, so here is my recap of the past week, abridged with all the sweet parts highlighted. Rachel and I bought rail passes for eastern europe, so we decided on Vienna, Prague, Bratislava, and Budapest and booked hostels in each city ( Read more... )

hey, don't have too much time to update now, but i thought i'd post the bazillion pictures i took over fall break last week. it was amazing! saw vienna, prague, and budapest-will post very interesting details later. miss you all ( Read more... )

today seemed like the longest day ever. actually the last 2 days seem like one long day. had my first solfege test today-i was all worried about it, and then kati kiss told us tuesday that she wasn't even going to give us a grade on it(just for shits and giggles, i guess). yeah, and the test wasn't too bad. it was just really long. i love kati kiss ( Read more... )

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so, yeah. i've been sick the past couple days. i woke up tuesday morning and had the lowest voice ever. my throat was all swollen and everything. i told kati sutrely that i wouldn't be able to sing in choir and she told me to go to bed and just miss classes, b/c i would just get everyone else sick, and i needed to rest and get better. so that's ( Read more... )

why is it that i never get a chance to say goodbye to the people that matter in my life? a close friend of my mom(who i have known forever) had a kidney transplant last week, and today she had a stroke, was put on life support, taken off life support, and passed away. i didn't get a chance to say goodbye to her, or to tell her that she meant so ( Read more... )