3 months of summer

and it was a summer of firsts

1st long distance relationship (we knew it'd only be for summer)
1st complete SNL episode watched
1st consumption of honey mustard
1st viewing of lord of the rings
1st time touching a cow
1st time taking a nap at a professor's house
1st time driving a four wheeler
1st time getting legitimately lost on my own (what do you mean i took the wrong highway for over an hour!?)
and it was the first time in a long while that i've honestly felt GOOD about being a music teacher. often I have just felt it my destiny. not forced upon me by peers, parents, or teachers. just... what i was supposed to do. it was this summer that i felt, once again, that ache to connect and create with people.

so, i also watched the weston noble documentary for the first time this summer (just tonight, actually) and in it he said "we forget how dreadfully students need love, how terribly they need affirmation, and that they need to know that where they are is OK"

okay so those aren't the exact words, but most of them are right! so.... there you go. this is me saying, if you are a student, have a student, or somehow relate to students - keep that in your brain.

on another thought, things are changing relating to my choir/orchestra dilema.
(not really cryptic, but not really citing any details. mwahahahaha)

anyway, i'm going to pack now. i'm leaving tomorrow for the local foods tour first year immersion program trip! me, two alumni, and 6 or 7 incoming first years, eating, talking about food, working, cooking, camping, all kinds of good stuff.

SEE YOU AT SCHOOL, SUCKAS