28/8:
-Motivation Essay due
-Post-natal pregnancy exercise presentation
30/8:
-Motivation Presentation
1/9:
-Aural transcription due
-Harmony analysis due
-I turn 20
3/9:
-Creative thinking report due
4/9:
-Concepts of physical fitness and health exam
-Keyboard journal due
5/9:
-Orchestra concert
8/9-10/9:
-Katoomba Women's Convention
11/9:
-Keyboard test
my last days of being a teenager... and I can't enjoy them. being 20 sounds drab.
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Thursday, August 24, 2006
Friday, August 18, 2006
Monday, July 31, 2006
myc'06 - irelate
Here is the long awaited recap of what I learned at myc:
The topic was relationships... and we pretty much covered all relationships you could think of - boy/girl, parents/kids, brothers and sisters in Christ (church), relationships with the world, relationship with God.
We learned that God is a relational person, and this is seen through his relationship with himself in the trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Since we are made in God's image, it is only natural that we are relational beings too. God wants us to relate to him and to others just as he relates to himself, in love. But these relationships are not just for our pleasure, in all our relationships we should seek to glorify God, as the trinity does as well. God seeks to have relationship with us, but we stuffed up big time. There is nothing we can do to enter into a relationship with God. Lucky for us... God loved us so much that he sent his Son to pay the price for our stuff up. Jesus came to Earth as a man, and was crucified. Our wrongs were paid for. But he didn't stay dead. He rose from the dead, overcoming death so that we could be raised to life with him. God is King. And he calls us to have relationship with him. For more info you may want to check out http://www.christianity.net.au/
The tough challenge now is to try and glorify God in all our relationships.
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The topic was relationships... and we pretty much covered all relationships you could think of - boy/girl, parents/kids, brothers and sisters in Christ (church), relationships with the world, relationship with God.
We learned that God is a relational person, and this is seen through his relationship with himself in the trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Since we are made in God's image, it is only natural that we are relational beings too. God wants us to relate to him and to others just as he relates to himself, in love. But these relationships are not just for our pleasure, in all our relationships we should seek to glorify God, as the trinity does as well. God seeks to have relationship with us, but we stuffed up big time. There is nothing we can do to enter into a relationship with God. Lucky for us... God loved us so much that he sent his Son to pay the price for our stuff up. Jesus came to Earth as a man, and was crucified. Our wrongs were paid for. But he didn't stay dead. He rose from the dead, overcoming death so that we could be raised to life with him. God is King. And he calls us to have relationship with him. For more info you may want to check out http://www.christianity.net.au/
The tough challenge now is to try and glorify God in all our relationships.
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Thursday, July 27, 2006
Saturday, July 22, 2006
brain overload
I've just come back from ISCF Conference and MYC (Mid Year Conferece). Both were awesomely cool for different reasons.
but for now... I need rest! I've had so much information going into my brain and I plan on using the next week to process it all. So be on the lookout for a "what I learned" blog next week.
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but for now... I need rest! I've had so much information going into my brain and I plan on using the next week to process it all. So be on the lookout for a "what I learned" blog next week.
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Saturday, July 08, 2006
the happy camper...
for my switch camp memoirs... check out http://juniorswitchgirls.blogspot.com
to see my face be critiqued... check out http://www.radiantvista.com/archive/daily_critique/260/
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to see my face be critiqued... check out http://www.radiantvista.com/archive/daily_critique/260/
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Sunday, June 25, 2006
prac over... stress continues
lol... so I didn't get to blog all the days of my prac. Here is the basic run-down:
-first week wasn't as good as I thought it would be. For starters... the school isn't all that crash hot. I didn't get to teach many junior classes... taught more senior classes.
-second week didn't get much better... heaps of excursions and stuff meant that classes were cancelled... so I didn't get much practice time.
-third week was surprisingly better. I was able to put into practice all the feedback that my supervisor gave me... and it felt good.
run down of the classes:
yr 7: sucked big time! they were so annoying and teaching keyboard isn't my specialty. So both teacher and students were unmotivated.
yr 8: They were doing group work for the whole time so I didn't get to teach them at all really. I just helped them out. They had to make up music to a television ad for a product of their own choice. We filmed them on the last day of school. Some of them had really good ideas. They are a funny bunch.
yr 9: they were doing group work for most of the time so I didn't formally teach them anything. I had one listening lesson with them... and that went okish. Their assignment was to perform a beatles song. They did really well. It was funny to watch.
yr 10: I probably got closest to this class. I did most of my lessons with them, and I also marked one of their assessments... so that helped in learning their names. At first there were trust issues between me and the students but towards the end we were all friendly and they learned stuff which is always good.
yr 11 music 1: I really liked this class too (all three of them that is). One poor girl was getting all stressed out on her assignment so I helped her nut it out (didn't do it for her... just nudged her along to get started on it). In the end her presentation was really good. I was so proud.
yr 11 music 2: This was a pretty cool class... very quiet though... didn't get to talk to them much because they were doing their compositions. They were so hard working... every free period that they had they were in the music room doing their compositions. At the end of the prac we listened to their compositions and they were so cool. I can still hear that really cool bass line and riff in one of the girl's composition.
yr 12 music 2: It was a bit awkward being in this class because I knew one of the girls from before and one of the other girls was the sister of a guy who is doing music with me at uni. So I just let them call me Caroline... and we talked about studying music in uni and what pieces they were going to play for hsc and my hsc experiences.
so yes... it all ended good.
yesterday I went to Sarah's house for her birthday. We watched the incredibles and the special anniversary performance of les miserables. I really love that musical... I've only seen it done at James Ruse High School... and it was quite well done there. I really wanna see a professional performance of it. That would be so cool. It was a fun night... I love my high school friends. We also played this game called hoopla which is a mix between charades and taboo and pictionary. Very very good!
Jen is going away soon... and I will miss her. She's always there to listen to me.
this week is one of only two weeks that I will have free... and I've already got something booked for every day this week. sigh... holidays too short. I've also got to do all my planning for camps and stuff. Switch camp this weekend and then iscf conference a week later... and I also need to write studies for switch next term. At least it reminds me to read my bible more often.
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-first week wasn't as good as I thought it would be. For starters... the school isn't all that crash hot. I didn't get to teach many junior classes... taught more senior classes.
-second week didn't get much better... heaps of excursions and stuff meant that classes were cancelled... so I didn't get much practice time.
-third week was surprisingly better. I was able to put into practice all the feedback that my supervisor gave me... and it felt good.
run down of the classes:
yr 7: sucked big time! they were so annoying and teaching keyboard isn't my specialty. So both teacher and students were unmotivated.
yr 8: They were doing group work for the whole time so I didn't get to teach them at all really. I just helped them out. They had to make up music to a television ad for a product of their own choice. We filmed them on the last day of school. Some of them had really good ideas. They are a funny bunch.
yr 9: they were doing group work for most of the time so I didn't formally teach them anything. I had one listening lesson with them... and that went okish. Their assignment was to perform a beatles song. They did really well. It was funny to watch.
yr 10: I probably got closest to this class. I did most of my lessons with them, and I also marked one of their assessments... so that helped in learning their names. At first there were trust issues between me and the students but towards the end we were all friendly and they learned stuff which is always good.
yr 11 music 1: I really liked this class too (all three of them that is). One poor girl was getting all stressed out on her assignment so I helped her nut it out (didn't do it for her... just nudged her along to get started on it). In the end her presentation was really good. I was so proud.
yr 11 music 2: This was a pretty cool class... very quiet though... didn't get to talk to them much because they were doing their compositions. They were so hard working... every free period that they had they were in the music room doing their compositions. At the end of the prac we listened to their compositions and they were so cool. I can still hear that really cool bass line and riff in one of the girl's composition.
yr 12 music 2: It was a bit awkward being in this class because I knew one of the girls from before and one of the other girls was the sister of a guy who is doing music with me at uni. So I just let them call me Caroline... and we talked about studying music in uni and what pieces they were going to play for hsc and my hsc experiences.
so yes... it all ended good.
yesterday I went to Sarah's house for her birthday. We watched the incredibles and the special anniversary performance of les miserables. I really love that musical... I've only seen it done at James Ruse High School... and it was quite well done there. I really wanna see a professional performance of it. That would be so cool. It was a fun night... I love my high school friends. We also played this game called hoopla which is a mix between charades and taboo and pictionary. Very very good!
Jen is going away soon... and I will miss her. She's always there to listen to me.
this week is one of only two weeks that I will have free... and I've already got something booked for every day this week. sigh... holidays too short. I've also got to do all my planning for camps and stuff. Switch camp this weekend and then iscf conference a week later... and I also need to write studies for switch next term. At least it reminds me to read my bible more often.
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Monday, June 05, 2006
Prac Day 1
Had my first full day of prac teaching today. I did visit the school for about an hour last friday.
The first part of the day was pretty boring. My supervising teacher was on exam supervision duty, so I followed her and we just walked up and down the aisles of the examination. So yeah... it gets really boring when you are doing it for like 4 hours. So I didn't stay there the whole time. I went to the staff room and looked at the music programmes. There is some good stuff in it. There are a lot of rock music topics as well as your classical/baroque/romantic music components. I copied all the good things that I thought I could use. My supervisor said that she would photocopy the whole programme (yr 7-12) for me.
Then after lunch I went and watched a yr 2 class. The girls were really cute. We sang this little song thing. OMGosh the girls there are so smart! Like they could do rhythmic dictation and sight-sing solfeggio stuff. Then I went and watched a yr 11 class, they were doing a listening task where they listened to a piece and discussed the duration and pitch in it. It was a small class of 3 people. They were good at identifying stuff. Sometimes some of the things they said I wouldn't have even been able to pick out by myself. So that was sorta interesting. My supervisor is really respected there so it's interesting to see how she acts around all the girls. It's a pretty casual feel... I can dig that.
Then we had rock band! It was really fun! There is a vocalist, drummer, violin, electric guitar, electric bass and keyboard. The piece they were doing was "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter. Basically what they do is have a jam session... and then they make suggestions and changes and improvements. It's really casual... and that makes it fun. Some of the girls weren't even music students but they were still really good. Next week I'm going to take the group. I'm trying to think of what song to do with them. I'll have to start listening to 2DAY FM again.
My supervisor was telling me something really funny. You see... she's getting married soon... and the girls at the school have been saying how they think that I am the person that will take over when my supervisor gets married... THEY ACTUALLY THINK I'M A REAL QUALIFIED TEACHER!!! I was quite flattered. So it will be fun teaching them. They think I'm old... yay!
I also found out that my supervisor's fiancee is Mr. Romeo... who did music prac teaching at penno high and taught my class. And he remembers me! How funny! Gosh so many connections.
So yes... I didn't do much... but I'm buggered... I'm going to sleep early. I have to go early tomorrow. Vocal group...
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The first part of the day was pretty boring. My supervising teacher was on exam supervision duty, so I followed her and we just walked up and down the aisles of the examination. So yeah... it gets really boring when you are doing it for like 4 hours. So I didn't stay there the whole time. I went to the staff room and looked at the music programmes. There is some good stuff in it. There are a lot of rock music topics as well as your classical/baroque/romantic music components. I copied all the good things that I thought I could use. My supervisor said that she would photocopy the whole programme (yr 7-12) for me.
Then after lunch I went and watched a yr 2 class. The girls were really cute. We sang this little song thing. OMGosh the girls there are so smart! Like they could do rhythmic dictation and sight-sing solfeggio stuff. Then I went and watched a yr 11 class, they were doing a listening task where they listened to a piece and discussed the duration and pitch in it. It was a small class of 3 people. They were good at identifying stuff. Sometimes some of the things they said I wouldn't have even been able to pick out by myself. So that was sorta interesting. My supervisor is really respected there so it's interesting to see how she acts around all the girls. It's a pretty casual feel... I can dig that.
Then we had rock band! It was really fun! There is a vocalist, drummer, violin, electric guitar, electric bass and keyboard. The piece they were doing was "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter. Basically what they do is have a jam session... and then they make suggestions and changes and improvements. It's really casual... and that makes it fun. Some of the girls weren't even music students but they were still really good. Next week I'm going to take the group. I'm trying to think of what song to do with them. I'll have to start listening to 2DAY FM again.
My supervisor was telling me something really funny. You see... she's getting married soon... and the girls at the school have been saying how they think that I am the person that will take over when my supervisor gets married... THEY ACTUALLY THINK I'M A REAL QUALIFIED TEACHER!!! I was quite flattered. So it will be fun teaching them. They think I'm old... yay!
I also found out that my supervisor's fiancee is Mr. Romeo... who did music prac teaching at penno high and taught my class. And he remembers me! How funny! Gosh so many connections.
So yes... I didn't do much... but I'm buggered... I'm going to sleep early. I have to go early tomorrow. Vocal group...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006
bumming = procrastinating
I'm at uni bumming/procrastinating (same thing). I should have brought my violin along so that I could do practice, I'll just practice when I get home. I have my violin prac test tomorrow morning... I hope I wake up in time. I'm feeling pretty good about my pieces, my dominant and diminished 7ths will be interesting. The other scales, I can just wing it. The other thing I should be doing is finalising my 18th - 19th Century music journal and photocopying my music scores. But photocopying costs money! And the my money is slipping through my fingers (note to self: stop complaining and get a job!).
So yes... I need to stop eating out, and need to pay my accompanist, and start saving for myc and conference.
CONFERENCE TIME UGH!!! I'm excited. (ooo jen if you are reading this... when can we meet up???)
www.jesusaintadirtyword.com - sounds interesting!
This week is my chocker week.... I had a really huge assignment due today... I was working on it steadily from 6-11.30pm last night. So that's one thing off my chest. Tomorrow is violin prac and 18-19C work, then thursday I meet my school... then friday is sight singing, harmony test and clarinet test.
So yeah... I wont be doing my prac at CTHS anymore. They pulled out because their head teacher left. So now I'm going to Tangara girls school. I heard that it's a good school and I spoke with the head teacher on the phone. She sounds nice. She did the same course as me and is in fact doing her masters at UNSW right now. So I am looking forward to teaching there. I'm a bit worried about what I'm going to teach though. I'll see what she says.
I still have an hour to waste until SOCM. That's it I'm turning on the laptop. I don't think there is much I have to do for 18-19C music... I've pretty much finished it... I'll just check now what I've done and what I need to do. (laptop taking it's sweet time to load).
Oh dang it... I actually need to write up one more journal entry... and I don't have the book/photocopied pages with me. It should be a quick thing though... so I'll just do it tonight... like while I'm waiting for dinner. Then will practice scales and study... then run through pieces... then tomorrow morning do scales and study... and run through pieces.
I'm feeling semi-hungry... am I going to do anything about it? Well I have a book so I could go get some food... and read a book... so I don't look like a total loner... then I will slowly walk up to library... photocopy music... then slowly walk down to SOCM. It sounds like a plan!
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So yes... I need to stop eating out, and need to pay my accompanist, and start saving for myc and conference.
CONFERENCE TIME UGH!!! I'm excited. (ooo jen if you are reading this... when can we meet up???)
www.jesusaintadirtyword.com - sounds interesting!
This week is my chocker week.... I had a really huge assignment due today... I was working on it steadily from 6-11.30pm last night. So that's one thing off my chest. Tomorrow is violin prac and 18-19C work, then thursday I meet my school... then friday is sight singing, harmony test and clarinet test.
So yeah... I wont be doing my prac at CTHS anymore. They pulled out because their head teacher left. So now I'm going to Tangara girls school. I heard that it's a good school and I spoke with the head teacher on the phone. She sounds nice. She did the same course as me and is in fact doing her masters at UNSW right now. So I am looking forward to teaching there. I'm a bit worried about what I'm going to teach though. I'll see what she says.
I still have an hour to waste until SOCM. That's it I'm turning on the laptop. I don't think there is much I have to do for 18-19C music... I've pretty much finished it... I'll just check now what I've done and what I need to do. (laptop taking it's sweet time to load).
Oh dang it... I actually need to write up one more journal entry... and I don't have the book/photocopied pages with me. It should be a quick thing though... so I'll just do it tonight... like while I'm waiting for dinner. Then will practice scales and study... then run through pieces... then tomorrow morning do scales and study... and run through pieces.
I'm feeling semi-hungry... am I going to do anything about it? Well I have a book so I could go get some food... and read a book... so I don't look like a total loner... then I will slowly walk up to library... photocopy music... then slowly walk down to SOCM. It sounds like a plan!
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Sunday, May 21, 2006
HIGH!!!
Yesterday was like one of the best days ever:
I walked to church in the morning for the maitland alive training day which went from 10-3. I met lots of people and got to catch up with sister susie, ivan and brother dan. I also decided to be part of the SOLID (searching out light in darkness) group. I'm excited about it.
Then after the meeting we just sat in the church for an hour and chatted and discussed the prospects of doing something.
so then at 4 we went to jonny's place and played card games and teken and talked and laughed till 6.30. Then me and cler came back to my place for dinner.
then at 8 Euge and Dan picked me and cler up and we went to coffee in beecroft. it was ok. We had a very funny conversation. poor dan... It was like 20 questions again. so much fun.
then we went to euges's house. me and cler semi-napped on the bed while euge and dan danced to classic 80s rock ballads. it was so funny!!! euge and dan together is a funny combination. me and cler laughed so much. the 4 of us made plans for future events... but we are gonna keep that secret for now.
then dan drove me and cler back to my place for my 11pm curfew. we got home on time so mum was very happy. so that means that next time i can come back later! :)
me and cler bagged out dan's bad driving and enjoyed his singing.
yeah... so i'm on a high. me and cler jumped into bed practically straight away and just chatted... and wrote in diaries... and chatted... and laughed... and giggled... and talked. everything is back to normal... and it feels good!
today was cool too. lots of church and a picnic and food... i should be sleeping now tho... i think i'm getting a cold.
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I walked to church in the morning for the maitland alive training day which went from 10-3. I met lots of people and got to catch up with sister susie, ivan and brother dan. I also decided to be part of the SOLID (searching out light in darkness) group. I'm excited about it.
Then after the meeting we just sat in the church for an hour and chatted and discussed the prospects of doing something.
so then at 4 we went to jonny's place and played card games and teken and talked and laughed till 6.30. Then me and cler came back to my place for dinner.
then at 8 Euge and Dan picked me and cler up and we went to coffee in beecroft. it was ok. We had a very funny conversation. poor dan... It was like 20 questions again. so much fun.
then we went to euges's house. me and cler semi-napped on the bed while euge and dan danced to classic 80s rock ballads. it was so funny!!! euge and dan together is a funny combination. me and cler laughed so much. the 4 of us made plans for future events... but we are gonna keep that secret for now.
then dan drove me and cler back to my place for my 11pm curfew. we got home on time so mum was very happy. so that means that next time i can come back later! :)
me and cler bagged out dan's bad driving and enjoyed his singing.
yeah... so i'm on a high. me and cler jumped into bed practically straight away and just chatted... and wrote in diaries... and chatted... and laughed... and giggled... and talked. everything is back to normal... and it feels good!
today was cool too. lots of church and a picnic and food... i should be sleeping now tho... i think i'm getting a cold.
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