Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Whew

Wow - I finally have a minute to breathe! The past month and a half has been quite possibly some of the busiest days in my life. Lots of endings, a few new beginnings. So I will try to give a quick summary of what happened.

Winter guard ended - Eklipse performed its last performance of "Can I Have Another" at prelims in Dayton, Ohio. While we had a solid run, our performance solid was difficult, so we didn't make finals. Tough, but we spent the following days hanging out and watching some great color guards. I took a dance class from Mia Michaels, and that was an incredible experience! The way she explores movement is so innovative.

Eklipse 2009

Drum corps started! I auditioned and earned at spot at my mother's newest baby (haha), Music City Drum Corps. Since it is a new corps, we will be Open class this year. We are taking a new approach to the activity and doing a shortened tour schedule with everydays in July and weekend camps until then. I know quite a few people in the guard and my brother is marching there as well, so I'm very excited for it to get completely under way.

I went home for Easter! I saw some good friends, had some good meals, and wrote a large majority of my term paper. It was nice to have a normal, relaxing weekend at home.

My friend Kaitlin celebrated her 20th birthday, and it was an epic weekend all around. Several friends came in town, Secondhand Serenade headlined the annual free concert at UE, and we spent the weekend frolicking in the sun.

The general fun that occurred that weekend.

Also, that weekend, I started dating a boy named Ray. We have quite a lot in common.

Between all the fun weekends were days filled with classes, papers, quizzes, tests, workouts, and some fun thrown in. Today was the last day of class, and I have two exams next week. Tomorrow, I'm heading home to take some of my dorm stuff home and then heading to New Jersey with my father to help photograph a giant indoor percussion/guard/dance/baton competition. It's gonna be some work, but it will be nice to see that part of the country!

I have an hour of work left, so I'm off to do that! I'm loving this weather.