November 16, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized —   299 words

So guys, I finally did it. I have decided to stop the piano lessons. I know, that was completely anticlimactic. But, anyway. I have been taking for years and and I’ve been through three different piano teachers (that sounds really bad but I’ll explain in a minute) and I was honestly just not getting any better. See, my first teacher gave me a choice, after having taken for a full year, weather I wanted to take lessons during the summer and I opted not to. But, when I wanted to start back in the fall, she had stopped teaching. And then I never really liked my second teacher, he wasn’t very good and ended up moving away. But my most recent techer, I had known all my life and she was great. But then my sister started to take this year and she got up to where it took me almost two and a half years to get to in just about nine weeks. So I decided to really think about it and I realized that I didn’t have a real passion for it the way my piano playing friends do, so I decided to step back and let someone on the waiting list who sincerely wanted to take, do so.I feel reallly good about this decision.

In other news, we did not place in the top five at one act, but I did however get to see my friend which was a great surprise. His school one first place so congradulations to them. Theirs was amazing. Oh, and on a completely unrelated note, does anyone know a good spam filter for wordpress? I’ve been using math comment spam protection but it does not seem to be working at all anymore. I’d really appreciate any kind of help.

November 1, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized —   146 words

Oh My God, it has been sooooooo long since my last blog. I cannot believe it, it’s been four whole months!! I’m back now though, I promise. I was just so busy the rest of the summer and barely home and then when I started school I was even busier. But things have kind of died down a bit. So, enough with the excuses. Let’s get on with it.

I have gone youtube crazy. I love watching videos and making videos and I want to share that with you. My account is http://youtube.com/user/jadedsmiles so please check it out. If you love makeup and fashion then you should definately check out juicystar07, AllThatGlitters21, and fafinettx3. If you love hilarious videos then check out communitychannel.

Well, so that’s about it. Oh, also, I have my One Act Competition on Thursday, so wish me luck!

June 21, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized —   675 words

I mean what I say, and I say what I mean. I’ve been gone without a computer for  two weeks now. The first I was at my uncle’s, bored out of my mind. Then last week I was at music camp…soooooo much fun!!!!!!! I love music camp as you can probably tell. But now, if you’re thinking its like that music camp in Raise Your Voice, its not. Its more like choir camp. We get all this music and we have a week to perfect it. We have choir rehearsal three times a day, a music theory class, an instrumental class (Piano II), and an elective (Songwriting/Music Tech). It’s basically like a week in the life of a music major, sort of. Here’s the line up of songs we did this year:

Worthy to Be Praised
Hear My Prayer
How Can I Keep from Singing
Psalm 23 (from “Songs of Faith”)
Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)
The Mind of Christ
My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord
Betelehemu

The last one’s a Nigerian Christmas song. In Nigerian!!! How cool is that?! About ten times cooler than when we learned the one in Latin two years ago. We actually didn’t sing any of the songs the same way as the videos above, but that’s one thing you’ll know if you’re a choir singer. They record the concert and I ordered a CD, so I’ll post the songs when I get that, and you can hear how sang them. The concert was wonderful and had the most amazing soloists. We didn’t sing them at the concert, but some other good praise & worship songs we sang during the worship services were The Heart of Worship, Days of Elijah, Sweeter (our choir sings that!), and You are my All in All.

One thing about music camp is that its been going on for about fifty or so years and their are a lot of traditions such as the Serenade. Basically, all the girls get dressed up and the guys escort us to dinner. They serve us our food and everything. And they have to do WHATEVER we ask them to. They sang Hannah Montana and Spice Girls to me and my friends because we thought it would be funny. And it so was! We have it on video and I’ll post that soon. My friend got pretty devious and asked a guy friend of ours to get some ice, but every time ice started to pour down, he had to stop and spin around. And then we made another guy friend of ours play patty cake with the choir director. After all that, later at night after worship, we go out to the park lot and they gus sing to the girls and the girls sing to the guys. We had five songs ready but because it was so late, we only had time for three each. We sang Love is a Battlefield, Bye Bye Bye, and Love Story. They sang I’m Yours and two other really sweet songs to us that I can’t remember. The guys were so sweet to us all night. And if it had been a contest, they would have definitely won, because our songs were on a computer and Hannah’s dad forgot to bring the speakers so we didn’t have good music. They had a guitar though, which was smart. It was all so much fun.