July 10, 2004 at 3:17 AM

Well an interesting week it's been!

On Monday I, for the first time ever, set foot inside a school building to actually go to school and be part of a classroom. I'm taking a math course this summer! I've pretty much taken the past year off of school to take advantage of some musical opportunities that were a once in a life time thing this year. I've been homeschooled up until now, and that has been a big blessing, but now I'm deciding that maybe I should at least do some stuff at school. So that's what I'm doing, found a scheduel that will work and get the school done, but not take away too much of my practicing time. This summer course is to prepare me for grade 11 math. Because I haven't done grade 10 math, or much of it, so this course is covering grade 10 and intro to grade 11 in 3 weeks. Not half bad....

I'm really enjoying my math class! It's starting to become quite challenging, as most all of the stuff we are working on I'm not very familiar with or have never done before now. The teacher is really awesome though, and his thing is that "music will be played during class time. If you don't like my music, bring your own!". We listened to an ecletic mix of 80's dance and rock stuff, I could have sworn that there was some Blondie in there. The second day I brought music, I subjected the class to Stravinsky. Another day it was some really rocky stuff, today a combination of heavy rock, Jamaican stuff (to encourage the appearance of the sun), and country. Hmm.... The class is great though! I love the bonus questions that are more like trick questions, that we get everyday!! Everyone knows that New Years Day is the week after Christmas in what year did they both happen in the same year? E-mail me if you are stumped. hehe

Musically, I've been working on as much as I can this week. I've been not feeling well on the days I've had lots of time to practice, so haven't done much, and then I've spent a couple of days after school with friends from out of town, so that cut into my practice time, but I've managed to keep a little bit of technique and studies going. Today I dug out the "Bach Preludio and worked on some of that a bit. And some other pieces I've dabbled on bits and pieces of. This weekend I hope to get some more serious practice time in and I look forward to re-aquainting myself with some of my pieces. *sigh* I should probably go and get back to work.

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