1) Classes
I am taking Music History: Beethoven through the Present, Music Theories IV (last semester of these, yay!), Intercultural Communication, and the usual hodgepodge of lessons and ensembles. I am also a peer tutor for a seminar called "Music and Identity in America." A peer tutor is just like a TA except I don't give grades, and only occasionally lead discussions. I do have office hours, though, which has been an experience.
2) Projects/Traveling
I will have two big projects this semester. The huge music history research paper hasn't been brought up yet in class, but the project/paper for Intercultural Communication (ICC) is shaping up to be really exciting. As you might already know, I am going to China with my voice prof. (Chia-Wei Lee) this spring break. We will be in Beijing and Kunming (yes, I'll be visiting the Shoreys), so I asked Dr. Hill if I could somehow work that into my final project. I haven't worked out the details yet, but while I'm over there I will hopefully be doing a little bit of research on Dongjing music, which is the native music of the Yunnan Province (which Kunming is the capitol of), and somehow tying it into ICC.
3) Pepper
Pepper is about 9lbs. now, and almost a year old. She recently had an outside experience that involved hanging out under Nik's house for a little while. That resulted in fleas which resulted in tapeworms (gross). She is alright now, though. The vet gave me some flea medication that cleared those right up, and her last round of medicine for the worms is tomorrow.
4) Dancing
Haven't been doing nearly enough this semester. As I said, I went to Semeneya (now Amora) ballroom last night. I was a little confused. The same owners were there, but the name and the procedures were different. I can't tell whether it's new management or just a new business model. Anyway, the cover price for dancing doubled, which I am not happy about. If I join the SASDS I can get in for $4 instead of $6, but I'm already a member of the Austin syndicate. It's kind of silly that I would have to pay for membership in both... Anyway, something exciting next weekend. I will be coming into Austin for a blues dancing workshop and outing. We'll be learning how to really effectively dance to specifically Seth Walker's music. If you haven't heard Seth Walker, you need to. Also, there's a portion on incorporating cha-cha into blues. We'll see how that goes...
5) CTME
At this point we're all pretty tired from TMEA. Nobody showed up to our meeting this Tuesday. We were going to finally have Mr. Gabrillo in to talk to us, but his mother was diagnosed with cancer, so he went to Dallas to be wither her. He said that they caught it early, so hopefully she will be able to come through it, but still, what a terrible thing. I kind of feel bad, because every time Mr. Gabrillo has set a date to come talk to us, either his son gets sick, or he gets swine flu, or his mother has cancer. It's kind of the the Spokane Indians. Every time they set up a meeting with the government to talk about the dam, things like Pearl Harbor or 9/11 happened.
Anyway, I'm also working on a big project that will happen in March. I filmed a lot of professors answering the question, "what is the importance of the arts in a liberal arts education?" Then in March, I'll show the video and have Dr. Hill respond to it, and have a group discussion with whoever shows up.
Time for theory class, bye!
- Christina
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