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December 30, 2005 at 4:18 AM

Hello everyone, I meant to update but I've let break run away with me. I have course been reading your blogs but I have felt lazy with mine. Last week I went over to my former orchestra directors house and I played some violin for him and then talked about music. He said that I have improved a lot from last he heard me. He said my tone was huge and my intonation was the best he had ever heard from me. I played the Bruch, which I had only been working on for only a week at that point. He said it was pretty well in tune and it was already musical so I was pretty pleased. Then we procedded to talk about my plans to do music education as a major. We also talked some about grad school. He attended grad school for conducting. I think he has me convinced to do that too as well as get my masters in violin performance at the same time. He said it would probably take 3 years if I do that but I think it's better than spending 5 years in undergrad to try to double major in Music Ed and Violin Performance which is practically like having 3 majors rather than 2 with a minor.

I managed to survive my first semester at college and achieved a 3.527 GPA which in college is an A- average. I got an A in Paideia (English Class) and Spanish, an A- in Music Theory and Violin Lessons, a B- in Class Piano, a C in Ear Training and a C- in Viola lessons. Opps about the viola and the class piano but the piano will be better and I wont have viola next semester, thank God, so that doesn't matter much. Since I recieved an A in Spanish I am contemplating making it a minor as well since I will only be 18 credit hourse away.

I am thinking that over the summer I will study with Dr. John Thomson if it's possible. He always has such good comments and he is a pedagougy genious so I hope I can. He teaches violin and viola at the University of South Dakota. With that I leave you, have a Happy New Year!!