Love Bug

Time is always moving. Sometimes we absorb or utilize some of it through sleep, meditation, studying or things like that. And other times time moves past us with or without us knowing. Sometimes I wonder… where does time go? When it is not converted into memories or recorded through song, word or some type of media. This last week I am wondering where a majority of my time has went to. ¾ of my last week has nothing to show for it. I received homework, I turned homework, I did sufficient on my homework and by the end of the term when I no longer have to retain any of the knowledge relating to Medieval to Modern World History or Housing and Interior Designs, the knowledge will slowly slip from my head. I want retainable usable knowledge.

Don’t get me wrong I love learning. But I just seem to have a problem with our school system as well. So I was on my thirty five minute lunch “break” at school, standing in line with and endless line of other students in front and behind me. As I am waiting for our very simple school lunch I wonder, how long have I actually been standing in this line of people with same intent as me? You see the only clock semi visible to me is one directly behind me and of course I cannot view this so said clock because there is a line of people blocking my view of the only clock around. Frustrating, right? Well another thing you must know to understand this story is from 9:00 to 3:30 at our HS you are unable to use your cell phone, no matter what the circumstances are. Aware of this rule I bring out my cell phone which is in my front jean pockets, merely to check the time. As soon as I have it fully out of my pocket a “Safety Specialist” jogs towards me, somehow spotting my phone and confiscates it from me. Really!?!?! I was just checking the time and really, this man “Joe” has nothing better to be doing with his time then scanning the lunch lines for people pulling out their cell phones to check the time.

This whole ordeal wasn’t that horrendous because I received my phone at the end of the school day from the office. I guess I just feel that when I am at lunch, the time of the day that I am really not disturbing anyone, I should be able to check my phone for the time.

I want to be apart of something amazing, that treats me like a young adult with personal opinions and views as a human being.


“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death” – Albert Einstein

Small World

I work hard in the things that I enjoy because they are things I take pride in. I need to learn that some people are just not into it as much as me and that is okay. I will work as hard as I possibly can because it is something I must do to improve, whether it is in singing, playing piano, taking photos, studying, playing the euphonium, studying or analyzing music scores.


"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." - Aristotle

Hobbies

I am so, so, soooo busy. So busy with things that I enjoy like studying music scores, singing with people, band rehearsals and stuff, that I have no time to actually make detailed posts. But I am trying to at least post a photo that i have taken every day to post at least something for you, my brilliant readers!

But I am delving deep into my like sixth day of school and it already feels like three weeks back. I have already had a fair amount of homework and two quizzes. I survive, at least so far I have survived.


"Only the educated are free." - Epictetus

To Lounge Upon

"Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain." Till Lindemann

Night Life

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." -Emerson

Flower Picking

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." - Albert Einstein

Far Away From Close

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Theodor Seuss Geisel

Starting School: Junior Year

Yesterday was my first day of school.. ugghhh. Well here is the gist of it all, day one = pretty lame. Day two = evened itself out and turned out to be an okay day. With the start of a new school year comes the addition of new projects on to my course load including a visual documentation of a friend and my outfits every day at school through photography. So I will post most of my school day outfits on here starting with my first two days, in this post.

Day One.. 9/8/10:

Day Dos.. 9/9/10:

"I'ts all about believing and if we believe in something. then that's real, isn't it?" - Anonymous

Shoelaces, Vacations, SPAM Curds and a Car Full of Purchases

So, if there is one thing that you have not picked up from my past blog posts then you must be oblivious/spell check/grammar handicapped as me. And you may not think so but I feel like I have swell ideas things like that, but when it comes to the correct composition of my sentences I am literally always way in left field. So, in the course of this blog I hope to slightly improve but if you could grant me one wish be open minded to my spelling and grammar mistakes.

I know I said that I was gonna document my four days on vacation and everything but I have found while composing multiple rough drafts of this post, that it is hard to blog about vacation because every single thing you do is different from your every day routine. So in small I could blog every singly minute of my vacation, but I won’t because I care for your sanity. So instead at the end of this post are some photos. I will include some stories, here and there about events though.

I had my chair placement audition for St. Mary’s Concert band on Friday and it went pretty well, surprisingly. I was a little tripped up when I came with two, two octave scales that I believed I had the choice of picking which major and minor scales I perform. Turns out my conductor, Dr. Janet Heukeshoven who is simply excellent, got the final say on the spot. I survived though and I guess that is all that really matters…?

To sum up my vacation with my very close friends the Matthees, I would just have to say that it was relieving and just a change in pace (which was much needed). My days were full of new memories, eating great food, adventuring, taking risks and just enjoying ourselves.

Till next time, my lovelies!

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein