Wendy Darling

Wow, two posts in one day. I guess I have a lot of pent up creative/journalling juices inside. So I just came inside from sitting on the trampoline with my little sisters and brother and it kind of felt weird. I found myself almost scolding them for bouncing too much and I wasn't really enjoying being out there. After a while, I started to get up to leave. Christine, number 4 in the lineup, looked up at me and asked me, shocked, where I was going. I told her simply, I was going inside, jumped off the trampoline and walked away. As I looked back, she looked confused and disappointed. I don't know why, but I felt really old just then. I feel like Wendy when Peter Pan came back for her years after their original adventure. When Wendy told Peter that she couldn't come with him because she was too old. I imagine Peter looked confused and sad like my sister did.
I don't know why this popped into my head, but it did. I think I'm being torn between being a kid at home and college student - an adult. I kind of want to be both, but I guess I'm just growing up. Wow, never thought that would happen. That's kind of a bummer.

So that was a really depressing post. Hopefully I'll think of something happy soon and post that.

Home

So I'm back in Oregon and my allergies are freaking out. Things actually grow here in Oregon so I've been sneezing more now than I have my entire life. Other than that, though, life is alright. I have drama camp starting tomorrow (PS I'm teaching drama camp this summer) and I haven't exactly finished the script for it. I'm not going to lie, I'm not really looking forward to drama camp. It is so stressful and exhausting. But the kids are fun to watch and it is kind of rewarding watching them put on their little play for their parents. Darn those happy, warm feelings.

One reason I really really really like being home is that church is at 11:30. WONDERFUL!!!! That 8:30 stuff at school was taking a toll on me. I never got a day to sleep in.

It's weird being home. Am I a child? Am I an adult? Am I a visitor? Do my parents have jurisdiction over me still? (I think the answers are: yes, yes, maybe, YES) It's just a different dynamic.

Anyways, I should probably go start getting ready for church. Haha, you Monticello kids are just starting Relief Society and stuff right now.







PS I really like this.

I love this ward!!!!

So here I am just sitting outside on the steps writing my paper and appreciating the beauty of the world and everyone in the ward just comes alive. It is so neat to watch the dynamics in this ward. Everyone loves each other and everyone is just so fun. I'm really glad I'm staying.

General Conference

I GOT TO SING IN GENERAL CONFERENCE ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON!!!!!

so, yeah, it was pretty cool...:)

Okay, it was awesome! it was just so neat to see ALL the people all filling in all those 21,000 seats. and the prophet was there, and all the members of the seventy that were in the upper seats gave up all thumbs up after we sang, and I met Elaine S. Dalton and she gave me a big hug. It was just a really neat experience. oh! and I guess I was on tv too. that's always cool.

I should be really tired, and I should go to bed - I have an early class tomorrow, but I'm not that tired.

PS happy birthday church!

PPS I never know what to write on my blog, so usually I don't. Is it a journal? is it an outlet for all the philosophical ideas I always have floating around in my brain? (oh wait...) no one probably reads this, so it probably doesn't even matter.

Elise is Here!

So Elise got here yesterday and she's going to be staying until Monday. She's just hanging out and seeing what it's like to be a college student. I'm really excited for her to actually get here to go to school. She's going to have the hardest time. She has been sleeping so much. Right now I'm sitting in the library with her sitting next to me sound asleep. :)

I'm really stressed about this paper I have to write for my child development class. It's due on Tuesday and I haven't started it yet. I just don't know how to write it. I guess I just better buckle down and do it.

A Lazy, Sunny, Saturday

So today I got up and went to an extra choir practice we had for a couple hours, practiced for about 15 minutes before I gave up, went to the library and worked on some homework - ran into Teri Ann Bennett - and went home. Then Brittni, Courtney and I went to the creamery for lunch and the ice cream scooper guy that was obviously a freshman hit on Courtney (funny). Then we came home and have just been hanging out, singing and dancing to the Enchanted soundtrack (SO GOOD!!!) and stuff. It's kind of a bummer that we haven't done really anything this weekend. We're quickly running out of weekends to do anything before finals.

Ooh! After finals and before spring term starts we are going to go to Portland!!! We as in me and Brittni! I am so excited we are going to have so much fun and it will be so cool to be able to show her around my home and where I grew up and stuff. My family is also really excited for me to come home, even just for a weekend.

So I'm really bad at keeping up at this. I'm back at school. We (the whole family) drove to Utah. We stopped in Hyde Park (near Logan) for a couple of days to visit with our friends the Bennetts. That was really neat. Kevin just got home from his mission a few months ago and so he told us about his mission - he went to Costa Rica. It was really fun to get to hang out with Teri Ann too. She is down at BYU now too as a freshman. The next Monday we drove down to Provo and got me all moved in. Brittni and I are living together again with two other girls in an apartment complex called Monticello (everyone here insists that it is pronounced "montiSello" but it just sounds wrong to me) I really like it here. The ward is very friendly. Our other two roommates are alright. One is really nice, and the other is just kind of spoiled - the youngest child syndrome. Anyway, I really like living here and I'm not afraid of RM's anymore. I don't really know why, but last year they seemed so old but now the Premees seems SO young (the pre-missionaries).

So I started my classes last Tuesday. I like most of them I think. Here they are:

• Music 201 - Civilization of music until 1860 or some date like that. I took the second half of this class last winter and although it was pretty hard, I liked it. So I'm taking the first half. That and I think I have to for my major. The professor is really neat. Dr. Howard. He is from Australia so it's really fun to listen to him, unless he is talking about Monet and Manet like last semester. I couldn't tell the difference when he said them.
• Music 271 - Music in Elementary Schools. I think this might quickly become my favorite class. the only bad things about this class is that it has a lot of homework (I have a paper due for it tomorrow) and we have class on Saturdays, but it's not really going to be class because we get to run/work at/play in BYU's music preschool. I'm pretty excited to see what that's about. We get to learn little songs and dance around to them. YES!
• Music 193 - Dictation. I think this class is going to be really easy. The teacher is kind of boring and has a really low and slow voice so it might put me to sleep. Also it is right before I plan to have lunch everyday so I'll be really hungry too. But I think I like the class. We never have homework, we just practice in class and stuff. The point of the class is to teach us how to hear something and be able to write it out on the staff. I've kind of been doing this for a while so I know kind of the basics.
  
• Music 195 - Music Theory. This is a little harder than the other two theory core classes (193 and 197) just because I've never really studied theory. I've played piano and sung for years, but I always skated through Syllabus in piano and the scales just with short term memory. So I don't really know what I'm doing, but I'm learning pretty well.
  
• Music 197 - Sight Singing. I like this class. I like the teacher, he's pretty neat. Also this is another part of music that I think I know a little bit about. I've been sight singing in choir for a long time and the stuff we do is pretty simple, but the hard part about it is that we have to do it in solfeg (do-re-mi) and with the hand signals that go with it.that's pretty hard.
  
• Women's Chorus. I'm really excited for this one. I went through a long audition process and finally made it into the choir. I sing Alto 2 so I am the lowest part in the choir. That's not exactly really exciting, I'd rather be an Alto 1 so I can at least get above middle c sometimes, but I'm just really happy to be in the choir. I really like the director. She seems very personable and very talented and very skilled at directing. Apparently she studied specifically women's voices so she knows what she's doing.
  
• Voice Lessons. I've never taken voice lessons ever so this will be interesting. My teacher is Dr. Allan Ord. He seems nice and is new to BYU this year. I really have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to singing classically and this year I'll be learning how to sing in Italian. That's kind of exciting since I am Italian. We'll see how it goes.
  
• Rel C 333 - Living Prophets. My only non-music class. I like it so far, the teacher is kind of intense, but she's alright. We get to learn about the lives and teachings of the 15 current prophets and apostles and study their last general conference addresses. I'm excited because my friend from Freshman Academy last year, Elisa, and I are taking the class together. It's really good to see her after all summer.
  

I also got a job a couple weeks ago when I got here. I work for BYU Catering. We basically cater a bunch of banquets, barbeques, football games, and pretty much any other activity on campus that uses food (besides the cafeteria stuff, we don't do that - just real food:)) I pretty much do everything from setting up places, plating food (putting it on the plate), waiting on tables, cleaning up afterwards and doing dishes. Yep, that pretty much sums it up. It's kind of funny because I told myself that I would not work in the food industry, and here I am! But I like it. It's really social and I walk A LOT which is good for me. The day of the last football game I walked almost 24,000 steps - that's almost 12 miles in one day.

OH! I almost forgot. Last night I went to see You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. It was really really good. I went with William Farnbach, a kid from home. It was really fun to go with him. He was pretty much my best friend through high school, even though it is a year younger than me in school and two years younger than me for reals (he skipped a grade). ANYWAY, it was a fun night.

Well, this has been a very long entry. I hope someday I read it again, or maybe my posterity...