So...

Christmas with Wartburg is done and finals are a-comin'.  I'm kind of glad in a way that CWW is over, because my friends are around again.  It was weird when a majority of the music department was gone on Friday!  Of course, now everyone is going to be busy studying for finals, so I probably won't see much of them anyway.

I got to see CWW this weekend.  I went to the 3:00 show on Saturday.  It was really good.  It reminded me a lot of something my high school did, except a little bigger.  My high school would put on a choir concert every winter.  They called it Festival of Choirs.  We all shortened it to FOC (partially because it is shorter and partially because it is funny to say).  It was the same basic thing though, just not as religious.  Instead of having one of the high school bands play, we hired an orchestra to come and play. (No, Ankeny does not have an orchestra.  It makes me mad, but what can I do.)  All of the choirs would sing separate songs and there were also group songs too.  We had people in the isles singing, like CWW, and we even did a song where the choir members held candles.  Actually, FOC was this past weekend too.  It would have been nice to see; my brother was in it this year.  Anyway, watching CWW brought back some good memories from high school.  It made me want to be a part of it!  Maybe next year...

The positive side of not being in CWW is that I have gotten to know some people from my band better, specifically those who were in the small ensemble that we set up to play before the concerts.  One of the girls lives on my floor.  We just hadn't really gotten a chance to talk a lot until now.  It was nice.

Well, this week is going to bring lots of homework and practicing. Yippee.  I'm just thankful that I don't have a bunch of tests to study for.  Most of my finals are either papers or something I have to play music for.  I just have one test type final in music theory.  Hopefully the fact that that class builds on itself will make it easier!