Week 2, Still Not Dead...

But, man, I do not feel good.

The last few days, my throat's been hurting. And my head. It's been real fun.

Uni is still kicking my butt a little.

And I feel weird. I know this is where God wants me to be, but I feel very displaced here, not quite at home, like I don't really belong. But I guess I'll see what happens.

ANYHOW.

Time management was better this week. I also added vocal instruction into my life so I have to do that, along with bassoon. Go team me!

I need to sleep, so this'll be short, but I wanted to post.

Job is SWEET, more on that later.

I got to see SPO this weekend because TES was visiting the college where she goes, and also we hung out with Bon, which was AWESOME. I always adore spending time with Tes, and then I hadn't see Spo or Bon since June of 2015 (before Bon and I went on missions), so it was sweet to get back together with them. Also, watched MOANA (which I'm OBSESSED WITH) because Bon hadn't seen it yet, so that was fun. :)


And one last thing to close this off- we got assigned our ward FHE groups tonight and THERE ARE TWO GERMANS IN MINE and GOD LOVES ME. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

Also, I'm bakin' banana bread tomorrow. WOOT.

Bis naechstes mal!

Home, Sweet Home!

Orlando was a fantastic trip, everybody! Although, I've spent the last two days recuperating just a little bit... XD

Our men's, women's, and concert choirs received Silver awards, which means we scored between 80 and 89- very good.

And by some miracle, show choir received a Gold, a score between 90 and 100! We were thrilled!

And of course, we got to do a lot of cool things and generally just rock on.

A few of my favourite pictures and memories:

 

 Lee Chapel at Stetson University. The acoustics in here are AMAZING, and we got to sing here!

 

 The entryway into the Island of Adventure park at Universal Studios.

The Onceler's house and the Lorax, in Suess Landing!

A shot of Hogwarts, in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter!

 The inside of Honeyduke's, in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter!

The First United Methodist Church, where our competition was. Gorgeous! And the acoustics were stellar!

 

The "beautiful" sand mermaid we made at Cocoa Beach.

One of my friends, with a whole lot of sass.

This sign, in the line for the safari in the Animal Kingdom at Disneyworld. My friends and I laughed... And also ran away. ;)

Mickey, the Sorcerer's Apprentice, in Epcot! One of my favourite scenes from Fantasia.

Also, that song is a bassoon duet, so... :D

The Tower of Terror, one of my favourite rides. AWESOME.

I GOT TO BE IN TATOOINE. :D

Sorry, if this is any bigger, it looks awful... 

A shot of the castle during the light show.

The castle at the finale of the fireworks show.

Alice in Wonderland with the Cheshire cat during the light parade.

Rapunzel's tower in Fantasyland!

 And, finally, the castle during the daytime.

 This trip was AMAZING, and I made some FANTASTIC memories... And had a great time. But I'm happy to be back in Myneton. :]

This Is Going Well...

Today was... A day.

I'm in the big choir at my school, and we're leaving on Wednesday for a competition in Orlando, Florida. 

We'll also be doing an exchange concert at Stetson University, 

eating dinner at Medieval Times, 

going to Universal Studios with a parkhopper pass to include Islands of Adventure 

AND The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter, 

Kennedy Space Center,

Cocoa Beach and Ron Jon's, 

and Disneyworld, with parkhopper passes to include the Animal Kingdom 

and Epcot. It's gonna be pretty cool!

Also, Elsa and Anna will be in Switzerland every two hours... :D

However, as a choir, I don't feel like we're ready for this competition... It's gonna be sort of an adventure.

But this is about today in my choir class. My teacher basically lectured the alto section (my section) about the "power struggle" we're apparently having and over-singing and how no one person can carry the section and it has to be a team effort, and that we better figure ourselves out. She also said that she wouldn't single anyone out in front of the choir, but she WOULD set up a meeting at a later date with the offending student(s) and their parents.

 Pause.

 Maybe this doesn't seem like a big deal, but to me it was 

HUGE.

Music means more to me than almost anything in the world, and I take it very seriously. And my director's comments worry me because I am LOUD. And I know that. And I know that sometimes I have a problem with oversinging... But I work very hard not to, and I don't think I have been... But I can't always tell.

And according to our director, there's also animosity in the also section, and that shows in the way we sing... I guess we all secretly hate each other or something? I dunno... It bums me out, because I honestly like all the girls in my section- they're AWESOME.

But, the thing is, I've already had problems this year... Been called into the director's office once and lectured... I left in tears. It was pretty stupid actually, a misunderstanding with my section leaders that they felt they needed to talk to our director about instead of resolving it with me.

So I'm worried that our director thinks I want to be section leader, and I don't respect my section leaders, and that I oversing. I'm worried I'm one of the problems in my section. And that TERRIFIES me. And I left that class this afternoon almost in tears, because I'm that worried.

And this was all compounded by show choir rehearsal this afternoon. She was getting on a group of us for singing a note wrong, and the whole time she was staring directly at me, because I was wrong two weeks ago. But I've fixed it! And I know I'm singing it right!

So I think I'm on the Bad List this year, and I'm so worried... Because she's kicked people out of choir before... And it would absolutely devestate me if that happened. Eeek.

On the plus side, Florida! ... Ha. :/