Well school begins Monday. I am excited about all the new things that will come of this semester and nervous for them at the same time. Two weeks ago I started back working with the Albuquerque High School marching band...they are doing great for a late band camp start and getting another new director. It will be an interesting yet amazing season. The kids are doing great and I love working with them. I feel weird not being at UNM marching band camp this week but my time marching is over. Seven years was quite enough. I am now just teaching marching band, which fills the desire to march quite well, without the pain in my knee. I look forward to Pageant and Zia, to see where the hard work will pay off...best woodwinds anyone?
I spent the say cleaning...yes that is what I find myself doing the last Friday before school starts. I needed to get everything organized so I can be sane during the semester. Got the bathroom all nice and sparkly...doesn't happen often. I look forward to being organized again.
School...well I am starting many new things. Starting as an elementary education major, finishing up my music education minor this school year and doing college choir for the first time. Choir should be lots of fun and a great learning experience. I have seven private music students, on flute, piano and basic voice and will be starting a home school choir in September. I can't wait to see where these new adventures take me. I look forward to new friends and hopefully some new outlooks on college through the education department. I know that all will be fine, once I get going. Can't wait.
This week I was also thinking about Pop-Pop. Last night especially. I was thinking about the many conversations I had with him about school and music. As a fellow musician, a great bass singer in his church choir and a one point doing an Elvis impersonation, he understood my desire to spread music in a way that many don't. He was always encouraging me to push to greater musical heights and knew that if I put my mind to it, I would indeed succeed. When it came to academics, Pop-Pop wanted his grandchildren to be very successful and full of knowledge. I remember in high school having to ask for help on math on occasion from him, knowing that he would try to teach me the skills I needed to pass the test with flying colors. I am taking elementary math this semester, which shouldn't be too difficult after pre-calculus, but I was just remembering those math tutoring sessions and how my brain felt like it would explode from the information being fed to it by my nuclear engineer grandpa. It's memories like that that will stay with me for my entire life. I keep wondering how September will be for all members of the family and Thanksgiving and Christmas. It will be hard, but we will have each other. I know he would be proud of all of us grand kids and our many endeavors. He would want us to never lack in zeal. I love my Pop-Pop. I am so glad that I still have my Grandma because she is one amazing woman and I am so grateful for the many things she does for me.
School here I come!
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