It was Time to Go Back

On Friday I went back to Walter Johnson after being away from there for almost a year. What a good decision I made. It was a great way to spend my afternoon.

So after I came home from classes for a little bit, I ate lunch at MC with my buddies. Then I proceeded home and practiced on guitar a little bit. Following that I walked up to Walter Johnson my old high school.

As soon as I arrived inside of the school I bumped into Ms. Parker. I talked to her about how college was going and that I found what I was interested in. I told her and she summed it up perfectly well when she said I was a humanities person. Yep someone who is interested in music, writing, history, and politics is definitely a humanities person and that both those interests all "hit sour notes at times." In addition, she also remembered where I sat last year in AP Euro and the year before that in Honors Modern World.

Following the chat with Ms. Parker, I proceeded to stop by and visit Ms. Donohoe. I explained to her where I go to college, and what my interests are now, and that I’m going to be doing an internship with the government over the summer. Her response was that that was something that I would love. Personally I’m looking forward to it. In addition, we had a chat about politics, specifically the election. She also explained how MC is a great school for a lot of people, because some people go to college and crash and burn, while others can go 2 MC and get themselves ready for college. Furthermore, she said it was a pleasure to have me in class last year and that I always contributed something good when we shared current events. Hey it was fun keeping up to date on issues.

Following my chat with Ms. Donohoe I proceeded to visit the cast of Gypsy. It had been a long time since I had been in the choral room. As I walked towards the choral room, flashbacks came and went from my brain, most of them were good.

So I finally arrived in the choral room and as soon as I walked in, I heard cast members whisper "it’s Berdak." It felt great, I felt like royalty. Then unexpectedly Aaron P. rushes up to me and hugs me and I almost fall to my feet. Then Ms. Mac was like, "aren’t you going to let me have a turn?" And she too gave me a hug. Sara and some others gave me a hug too. It was great.

Following my initial entrance, I stayed at the rehearsal for almost 2 hours. I caught up with everyone and saw how he or she was doing. Many people’s response’s when I asked them how they were doing was "A lot of stress" but that’s typical since being in a show is a lot of work.

After I had caught up with everyone and saw a little of the show’s numbers, I left. As I walked out it felt different, a lot had changed. That’s’ because you grow up a lot during the summer between college and high school. I had a great time visiting WJ and it was fun to walk in there as an alumnus and not a student.

Ahh it feels great knowing that you finished exams yesterday.  I feel soo relaxed now that they're finished.  All that hard work and studying paid off, especially when the MA100 Exam was a synch. In addition, History of American Popular Music was even easier than that, I killed that exam! That was right up my alley.

Furthermore in response to those I've talked to about starting on guitar or bass. I've decided I'm going to do both. Yeah I understand learning 4 instruments (voice, piano, guitar, bass) at a time is going to be really hard, but I'm used to all the hard work. Since coming to college and learning voice hard work is pretty much in my veins now. So its not like its a big deal.  My friend who plays guitar is going to teach me the guitar and then I'm going to apply what I learned about guitar to bass.

In addition, another thing I have noticed recently is that those who go to musical theater or classical music usually have someone in their family who plays an instrument.  While those who go to rock music (like me) don't have anyone in their family who plays an instrument. I mean yeah there's exceptions like my cousin and one of my friends who plays guitar, but thats a statement made from what I've noticed.

Woah! It's been awhile since I last updated! Wow time flies by when you're having fun! Well tomorrow is thanksgiving break and I'm looking forward to that!

Lots has been going on with me. First off I've been taking a course called History of American Popular Music at Montgomery College. It is a class that is both easy and fun taking. Because of this class I am able to learn about Rock music through the ages. We covered bands I like such as the Doors and the Who. In addition, we're getting very close to my favorite time period in music. None other than the early 90s. That was when Nirvana created a revolution in the music industry and laid the groundwork for modern rock as we know it today. I can't wait until we get there!

Also, I've formed a rock band with some friends. In the band I'm the lead singer, keyboardist, and lyricist. Fun fun! Good times!

Currently Playing We Are Not Alone By Breaking Benjamin see related

- So Cold

This summer has been great so far. 

On Monday night I went to help a friend out with their service project. While I was there I talked with some of the people we were serving food to, and I saw some of my other friends.  The whole night was a lot of fun, because we were all dressed up from different decades. I was the 70s, and I was trying to look like Shaggy from Scooby Doo.

On Tues, I rode with my brother to Best Buy, Circuit City and Wheaton Plaza.  I purchased the Gattaca and Tomb Raider DVDs at Best Buy.

Yesterday however, was the best of the days of this week. I hung out with Robert and Chester, and then had vocal lessons at night. At vocal lessons I confirmed I found my head voice! 

For those of you who don't know what head voice is another name for it is falsetto.  There's two types of voices a singer has chest and head voice. Chest voice is where the low notes come from, head voice is where the high notes come from.  I finally found my high notes!

Currently Playing Start Something By Lostprophets see related

Well, today is the first post in my xanga entry. Well not much has been going on except I've been using my digital camera a lot lately. Love digital cameras, they're are so neat! Saw Return of the King for a third time three days in a row. It's just one movie that is just great.