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Friday, 25 April 2008

Tuesday, 01 April 2008

  • So, I don't know what to do right now. i am probably failing theory, but Dr. Griffin will probably not mention anything and let me finish out the semester. I mean, I would, but there is no reason for me to believe that I am going to pass this class if I am not going to. It is really upsetting, especially now that I am supposed to be in the middle of choir tour, having fun and ministering through God's music. Well, no more fun to be had for me. I mean, when you think you are going to fail a class, there is no longer any joy in your life. Well, i am off to go do work for my other classes, and try to find a way to pay for school if I should lose my music scholarship. Bye.

Sunday, 23 March 2008

  • Easter

    Lost
    drowning
    suffocated by my pain

    abandoned
    forsaken
    you took it all away

    never complaining
    never asking for anything
    you took it all from me
    so that I could have hope

    With that hope comes a promise
    a promise of a new life
    a life spent with you
    A life of eternal bliss


Friday, 21 March 2008

  • Currently Listening
    Change Your World
    By Michael W. Smith
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    All is not lost

    It flows...
    It takes ...
    from me...
    from you...
    from all of us

    We are adrift......
    lost in our fractured reality
    with out a leg to stand on

    What are we doing
    Why are we here
    why do these things happen
    why can't nothing ever change

    It's not right
    It's not fair
    but since when does that matter
    it never has before

    There is no concern for us
    only in what the image must be
    but what of us
    we, the ones who feel
    the ones who are affected

    We have to go on,
    rebuild our lives,
    continue along our path,
    it's what they would want anyway

    It is hard...
    we want to run away scared,
    but we can't allow that to happen!
    that only allows them to win,
    and no one wants that

    We muscle up
    we try to go on.
    but we still weep
    we are so weary

    When will this end?
    we haven't a clue
    but we know we are to endure

    life moves on
    slowly, surely
    we will overcome
    and we will make it

    we must stay true to our faith
    we are all in this together
    we must never forget that we have friends
    and shoulders to lean on


Saturday, 15 March 2008

  • Constuctive competition

    Yesterday I went to my first ever voice competition at USC. It was for SCNATS. It was a very interesting experience for me considering I stopped singing when I was 12, and only got back into singing within the last year. This was my first year taking voice lessons of anykind, and I ended up 5.33 pts. away from qualifying to go onto regionals. I believe that I did an amazing job. the judges said some things, most of which I agree with, some which I don't. That's the problem you have when there is a jury or a competition: either they love you or don't like you, and in turn you either like their criticism or you take it with a grain of salt. I judge said that I needed to work on vibrato, when there was no vibrato in my entire performance. The other two judges said good things, comments on my breathing and my stage deportment. My German was torn apart; it was okay, because I was expecting it. So until the end of the semester, I am learning German from a singers perspective, which throws conversational German out of the window. Who knew. But still, it was a good experience, one which I would not trade for the world.