HOORAY!!! SPRING!!!
the vernal equinox has come and gone, and what is left is longer days, warmer weather, and general better moods. i noticed a change on campus as soon as we got back from break... everyone was nicer to each other, people were out jogging, relaxing, playing, frolicking... :D
the past week has been kind of stressful getting back into the swing of things. my sleep schedule has taken some time to readjust. have had to do some work just to generally catch up, but that's okay.
we had two concerts this past week, and i got to be at both of them. the first was a performance by one of the voice teachers, and i flipped pages for the amazing organist extraordinare, trudy faber, esq. it was quite a different experience being up there rather than in the audience. it felt like the organ was coming from all around me, not at me. wild.
the second concert was quite an emotional one - it was dr. busarow's last home concert of a 28 year reign. they had almost two hundred alumni return to campus for this. i think the choir put on the best concert of their lives. there are two songs that are sung at the end of every concert - when i surveyed the wondrous cross and the benediction. and to see all the alumni join the choir at the front of the church, and then surround the entire audience for the benediction... so powerful. we gave them a silent ovation; after the benediction, no one clapped, no one cheered, no one moved. dr. busarow left his podium and walked down the center aisle of the chapel in complete silence. i wasn't even in choir and i was crying. afterwards, there was a reception in the cdr which was pretty fun. alumni told a bunch of stories from their experiences and from choir tour (the choir takes a trip every spring break and sings at churches - this year they went to the east coast). it was a great time, and i could tell that even though dr. b was pretty emotional (who wouldn't be, after 28 years and interacting with almost 500 choir members?) he held things together quite gracefully. i know it will be hard for him to leave the choir and have someone else directing, because that choir is very much his identity. but - with time, things will be well.
that was friday night. friday morning i had to wake up ungodly early to go to a local middle school to observe some bands. i got to see fifth grade and up. i was impressed at the sheer number of kids involved in music at that school! it gives me hope.
yesterday sav and i took a trip out to dr. w's place. he has a pond, so we went fishing. didn't catch anything, unfortunately. the wind kept blowing our boat to the far shore. but it was really nice to relax and soak in some sun and spend time with w and sav outside the college world. i feel so refreshed after communing with nature.
today has been busy; we had housing tours for a place to live next year. sav and i found two houses and faculty court apartments. i would be happy living in any of those, honestly. i just really hope things are worked out... our lottery number isn't the greatest, but maybe there'll be a miracle and we'll be able to live somewhere NOT in the dorms...
we also had our budget hearing today for fishing club. basically, we have to go in front of student senate and had to justify them giving us almost a thousand dollars over the course of next year for the club. i thought it went really well, our budget was consise and laid out well. hopefully we'll get most of the money we asked for.
so now i am going to spend the rest of the day doing homework. yayyy. i have some projects coming up, so my time is going to be cut even shorter. oh well.
adios muchachos!
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