College Update.

The daily life of a college student is pretty boring, there's not much to report. I go to class every day, and do homework at night. Nothing extraordinary has happened this week.

Midterms are over, which I guess is a relief. I didn't really have any intense, normal people midterms because most of my classes are music related. I'm doing well though, across the board. All of my teachers are pretty happy with my work so far.

Tomorrow is Halloween, which I guess is a pretty big thing in the city. Apparently there's some big Halloween parade on 6th Ave but I was just planning on staying in and watching tv. I've never been a huge fan of Halloween.

This weekend I'm going home with my roommate Caroline, she lives just outside of Lancaster, PA. I'm pretty excited because on Friday we're leaving around 2 and then when we get off the train we're going to their town's First Friday, which should be pretty interesting to check out. Then on Saturday we're doing yoga and checking out something called Central Market, which is apparently one of the oldest markets in the US. And there's lots of Amish people there. Caroline's excited for me to see an Amish person for the first time. Also, her parents are treating us to a trip to Hershey Park which I'm soooo looking forward to. I'm not sure if we're going to the amusement park area of it but I know we're going to Chocolate World which sounds amazing. This weekend should be a lot of fun. I'm actually even looking forward to the train rides, because I love the train. We'll get back in late Sunday night around 11, so I'll be in PA all weekend.

Not this weekend but next weekend, we start rehearsals for New Student Cabaret. I think we're going to have rehearsal every night from 7-10, in addition to the hour we have on Wednesdays in New Student Seminar. I'm really looking forward to this, I've missed rehearsing for a show. And I'm also looking forward to finding out what group songs we're doing and to hear everyone sing. I don't think I've heard everyone sing yet, just some people here and there. In my English Diction class we've started performances, where everyone brings in an English art song and performs it in front of the class, and then we critique their diction based on what we've learned so far. We had our first day of performances today and I'm somewhat impressed by the talent level. Well, I'd say I'm neutral. We had one girl perform for whom English is her second language, so we spent a lot of time with her on her diction. I didn't realize until now how difficult some words are to pronounce properly.