Happy Hollidays

I just realized that I only have one week left of classes before my exams begin. And that's a VERY GOOD thing!! My exams won't be hard at all, I am just SOO ready for this semester to be OVER!!

This past weekend I was in "Holiday in the Pines" with Moore OnStage and Taylor Dance Company, and it was FANTASTIC!! Well, not my singing because I was deathly ill, haha, but it was still so much fun. I so can't wait to do "Oklahoma!" in February. I'm also starting dance classes at Taylor Dance tonight, which I am absolutely stoked about, and I plan to be in their Spring show.

This Sunday I am going to be in a Student Showcase for the studio I am a student of, with KC Holliday. If my voice has improved...right now I'm still pretty sick :(  BUT, KC gave me four new pieces for all of my auditions in January and March for colleges and Schools of Music. And they are amazing pieces: "Angels Ever Bright and Fair", "Must the Winter Come So Soon?", "Laurie's Song" (from Copland's "The Tender Land"), and one other that I can't remember right now. They're tough, but they're beautiful.  I need to work out which ones (among these and my entire repertoire) I will use for my auditions.

Geez....the main reason for today's blog is to publicly announce that I have officially gone back to Plan A, a.k.a. Operation Achieve My Dreams :D  I am a double music major again, in Vocal Performance and Music Education, which is where I should have stayed all along.  I get excited just thinking about it, and I haven't even auditioned for any schools again, yet.

Right now, it's a toss-up between East Carolina University (again) and Appalachian State University.  Others on my list include Western Carolina University, UNC Chapel Hill, and NC State University. (But I can't go there because they don't even offer a music degree...I'm just awaiting the decision of the scholarship I applied for at NC State...but even if I get it, I'm not going to take it.)

Oh, and one other thing I'd like to clarify: When I switched my major from music to business, that was not my dad's decision, and he did not make me do it.  It was my decision because I couldn't afford ECU at the time, and I doubted whether I'd be successful enough in music to make a living.  I just meant that after I switched, with me not knowing WHAT to major in, he advised me to major in business.

But those worries are gone now anyways.  I will always be able to get a job with my education degree (if I need to), OR I could give voice lessons, like my voice teacher.  THAT'S actually where the money is. And some serious money, too. Plus performing, which is my main goal right now, and first objective after I graduate from college.

Anyhoo, I am supposed to be working right now. Or at least beginning my biography on Sir Isaac Newton that I've known about since the beginning of the semester, and that is due on Friday. You know, something of the sort.

Peace out, homies.