So it's late at night...I can never write at a decent hour....aaaand it's been close to a year since my last post. What happened you may ask? TEACHING happened!
Well since my last post, I had an AMAZING student teaching experience...moved ONCE AGAIN back home to Lake Norman and spent the summer reading books, checking ncdpi for teaching jobs, and wallowing about my used to be social life and unemployed self. Luckily, a job came along at my old elementary school where I'm teaching music now.
I'm doing well. I do miss my friends...the other singers and musicians that I lived with for 4 years. To be a musician is to almost have an extra emotion....Now that I'm teaching I don't get to sing like I used to. I'm not studying languages and interpreting text anymore....not singing my opera face off every single day...not experiencing the emotion involved in solo and choral singing. I miss orchestras and massive pipe organs. It's a deep subject for blog, but I handled and faced emotion through my music and now the only time I sing is in my house alone if I get home from teaching with enough energy to sing through some old recital stuff.
Christmas went well this year. It was the first year my friends and I hadn't gone caroling....everyone is so spread out now. My high school friends and I have been separated for a while....but it seems like as soon as I walked across the stage in the concert hall and graduated app that all of my music friends scattered....carolina coast....san fran....VA.....it's crazy. I dream of traveling. Maybe going to grad school somewhere.....singing different places....or studying something completely different just to see if I'm good at something else! Sometimes I wonder what it'd be like to be an executive in a business....or maybe a writer...I had a professor in college once ask me if I had thought about creative writing for a career.
Well, I'm not full of sarcasm and silly stories for this entry. I've been away for way too long! Maybe I'll do better....but don't hold your breath!
