goodbye summer - hello the rest of my life!

August 30, 2006 at 12:24 AM

September is just around the corner. I can hardly believe it! I'm excited to see all my students again, and some new ones. I'm also excited to say goodbye to the summer heat that I loathe about this area but that's beside the point. I'll once again become the "only child" as my sister and brother go back to their respective places of education. One of the things that excites me the most about this fall though is I'm going back to school! Dance school, that is. That's right. I'm going to see if I still have what it takes to make sense of music and rhythm in my feet again. I did ballet and tap for many many years when I was younger as well as I've dabbled in jazz and I even took modern dance for a few years as well which I really enjoyed but for a variety of reasons I said goodbye to part of my life. I've really missed dancing these past few years though and talking to a former fellow dancer friend of mine who is now a respected teacher in the area, there is apparently the perfect class for me to sign up for and she's in it! It's supposed to be just fun and it's a combination of experienced and inexperienced dancers but it doesn't have the same end focus that the regular classes I used to take did. It's supposed to be fun and get you moving. It's going to be kind of deja vu too as not only is my dear friend from my dancing days who now teaches is in it but come the spring when another friend of mine comes back after his work contract runs out, he'll be joining in as well and I've known the dance teacher who's teaching the class for some time as well so it should be a ton of fun!

This fall my focus shifts from school back to music. I'm taking two courses in school first semester to upgrade in a couple of courses but that's just two courses in first semester so I should hopefully have time to practice lots still. Last year was such a frustration in regards to my violin. I felt like I had accomplished a lot on the days I muster up enough energy and time to practice for even just a single hour in a day. School just consumed me. So I'm excited about being able to practice more this year! This past week or so have been luxury because I've been doing 3-4 hours a day! I feel like I'm actually accomplishing something and it feels good. It's going to be an interesting year preparing for those dreaded and yet somehow exciting university auditions (I'm sure if you ask me around christmas time the auditions will no longer be exciting, only dreaded).

I really am sad to see summer go, especially since I had such an awesome time in Vancouver but I guess that all good things come to an end at some point and our focuses switch from one area to another. One of my roommates sent me her pictures from YAE last night so I'll include a couple more shots from my Vancouver adventures at the bottom of this entry.

Goodbye summer, hello fall! What will the future hold?

TA - Kevin has fun in clowning class