What to say? This weekend, I really got to rest and it has never felt better. I finished Friday, and I had nothing to worry about for the weekend. My work for this term isn't over yet, but the really big things aside from the finals are done. Dirt off my shoulders? I think so. So, I thought it'd be a good idea to reward and feel good about myself this weekend - just a little bit.
A few weeks ago, I was asked to join the Christmas choir at CCBC. I wasn't so fond of the idea at first, and I didn't even know if I'd still be here for that celebration. I turned down the offer with the reason that I wasn't sure if I would still be here, and that I wanted my Sunday afternoons to be at home doing nothing. But it was insisted that I should just join the practices anyway, in case I am here. I think the chances of me being gone are higher, but I thought, meh, whatever. So today, I went to the practice. It isn't exactly a full blown choir per se, but it's got a good amount of people. I said that I'm not a tenor, but the only choices were bass and tenor. And people know I complain about songs being too low, so I just chose to sing the tenor parts. After all, it's only the standard SATB parts, no such thing as baritone. So after trying to keep up for the first couple runs, I started to catch on. And because I am a baritone and not a tenor, some parts are too high for me. For the music people, I'll explain my range for you. I am comfortable up to an F; I wouldn't be able to hold that note or keep my range within that vicinity for an entire song, but if the melody gets up there for a few measures here and there, it's within my normal range. Most of the time, I am fine with the odd G or sometimes G#. And if I'm really ambitious, I'll try for the A. So the very ending of the second song we're singing, the tenor is to up to that G# and is to hold it for TWELVE beats (3 measures). I wanted to die. Another guy that's a bit older than me that was beside me, the whole time we're just laughing our face out because of some of the high parts. We just had pho like fifteen minutes before practice, so the food hasn't even settled in and we're singing consistently in the range of D to G. It was pretty cool to be going through puberty again. But practice was a lot of fun. I haven't done any of this group singing stuff since Splash Kingdom, and it was fun. I'm just so glad that I'm really getting to know some people here at the church; they're pretty awesome - a lot like NEAC, but maybe a bit less... secular? I'm not sure if that's the right word.
With school, I cannot believe I have a week and a half left - a total of six class days. After that, I'll have one full week of four exams and then I'll be comin' home man! I should really put an effort into doing well in my exams so I can go home without any worries or regrets. Man, that first semester went by so quickly. It is definitely a change from the UofA. The first semester just dragged on and on there; and don't even get me started on the second semester. All I have left is a group presentation, a short assignment, and a short paper on Christian spirituality. I think that handing the theology term paper had me at the tip of the mountain. So I've hit the plateau and waiting for the finals to get here. Now I've just got to take care of a few more things and it'll be all down hill from then on.
One thing I learned about myself is that I think I might be too honest. When it really comes down to it, I think I'm a really straight forward person. I'm gonna tell things like it is, and not shy away from trying to beat around the bush. I would like to think that I'm a pretty open person in the sense that I'll take criticism, I'll listen to things and look at them from every side that I can. For instance, my blog! Anyone that's been following me on here have probably read some of the thoughts that I have towards certain situations, and sometimes I get pretty blunt. What I am implying is that I hope that I don't have as many readers as I think I might have. There's nothing more to it than that. I obviously talk about people I come into regular contact with, so I just hope they don't take me the wrong way. That's what sh.... nah.
Well, November only has a couple days left! Enjoy it while it lasts because December is gonna be legen...
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