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July 27, 2004 at 7:32 AM

Great news: I've been accepted into the next round of the Faith Court Scholarship for commencing string students at WAAPA. There's a bit of a story behind this.

I applied, but didn't tell any other string players about it (such as the cellists or double bassist) until after the entries had finished. Why inform them about it when I could have less competiton? Ended up that none of the people I thought were eligble applied so I needn't have bothered.

Anyway, I figured that I was a fairly sure bet to get the scholarship seeing as (in my opinion) I was the only commencing student playing strings that applied. However when the names went up for the next round, mine wasn't on there, but there was a second year student, and a final year student. I was amazed and angry and dissapointed, so I shot off a quick e-mail to one of my lecturers.

He replied that the second year student was atually considered in the rules a first year student because she had actually done a different course last year so was technically a commencing student. He didn't mention anything about the final year student.

I replied this morning that I was still confused at why the final year student could get through as a commencing student, but didn't get a reply before I had to head off to uni.

Before my last class, I was scanning cards (to check attendance) outside class. One of my lecturers comes up to me and says to me "Ben, are you ok to play on thursday?" I say "yea I can be" and he says "You're on. That final year shouldn't have applied for that scholarship so You're up"

I was so excited that I couldn't really relax and enjoy the concert that I had (One of the Bach Cello suites and a Duo by Kreisler i think).

Well, I best go as I need to practice. I don't think that I will get the scholarship, as the other person going for it has had a year of training before me so you'd assume that she'd be better than me, but I'm going to give it my best shot and hopefully give her a good run for the money.