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Recital and future

March 30, 2006 at 3:07 PM

On wednesday I found out when my graduation recital will be. November 17th, at 4pm. A much nicer time than the one I feared I would get. Last year they had recitals starting from 10am. I didn't want to be the one that had the 10am recital. Very difficult to get people to come in at 10am. Worse would've been something like 11am on a wednesday, when people are less likely to get time off work. At least with this time, People can get off work a bit early and come watch me perform. That's got to be an incentive :>

During the meeting where we were assigned Recital times, we were also told that the staff at WAAPA are implementing a graduate placement program, where they will meet with all of us, find out what our goals and aspirations are, and try and place us into further study or the workforce. Now I've got to do a bit of thinking before the meeting in May, but I think it's a really good idea. I'm pretty sure that I'll stay at waapa and do the bridging course, but I would like to see about international study after that.

We also had a session of Performance Fear and Sports Psychology. It was really interesting, and gave us tips for not only allaying performance fear, but also improving preperation. I think that even if performance fear wasn't a problem for some of the people in there, I'm sure the preperation advice that we received will be used very well.

So although the graduation recital sounds very scary, I'm actually looking forward to it, and am hoping I have a good time.

I'm looking forward to your graduation recital, too, Ben. I'm starting to send you good vibes now, and I'll continue to do so until your recital and beyond. I'm glad that you will get some assistance in planning for your career in music soon. Whatever you do, I will always wish you the best.