Monday is voice lesson and radio show day, as you might have noticed from previous posts. Before voice lessons, I always wish I had practiced more. Last week, I didn't practice singing much outside of the usual Messiah and choir rehearsals, so I prayed before my lesson that it would go well even though I wasn't super prepared. To my great relief and excitement, I had one of the best voice lessons ever! It was really fun! The techniques my teacher taught me kicked in right away and helped a lot. Very rarely do things like that happen so quickly for me. Most of my singing improvement is very gradual. Anyway, I was totally diggin' it, and it put me in a really good mood.
Soon after I got back from singing, my friend Marta and I went grocery shopping together, but first we grabbed some fish and chips. Yum. We split an order because they are huge over here, and we completely enjoyed our carb overdose. With happy tummies, we headed to Asda for an epic shopping trip. I'm not sure if I have mentioned that the comforters (duvets as they call them) that come on the beds in the halls of residence are super small; they barely cover the mattress. Well, mine is annoying because it won't stay in one place, so I invested in a king-size duvet at Asda, and I am lovin' it. It's the American way - "bigger is better," in this instance anyway. We scaled the aisles at Asda, and then trudged back to campus with our winnings.
After all that work and those fish and chips, we decided that we needed some hot chocolate and some Glee. Marta got the latest Glee episodes from a friend, and we watched the Britney Spears and Grilled Cheesus episodes. Talk about controversial! Whewww! I could go on and on, especially about the Grilled Cheesus episode, but I won't do that here. Despite being a bit disturbed, I still enjoyed chillin' and the hot chocolate. Later on, Marta joined the rest of us gals for "The Evening Dish" where I got to perform "Light in Your Eyes" by Sheryl Crow! It was cool. We chatted it up for the rest of the show and then called it a night.
Tuesday morning is e-music. Having class only once a week makes the weeks go by so fast! Usually that would be a good thing, but I just feel more behind in e-music because of it. Thankfully, our teacher acknowledged that a number of people are having trouble, and he gave us some pointers on how to get moving with our assignments. I hit up the libary right after class, and tried to sort through a few things. Then - lunchtime! I made more pizza, this time with tomatoes, mozzarella, pepperoni, onions, and Edam (???) cheese. (Well, shoot, that doesn't look nearly as healthy as I thought it did, now that I'm writing out the ingredients). I bought the Edam cheese because they don't have provolone cheese over here, and I thought that maybe they just call it by a different name. Anyway, the pizza was good. A bit later that afternoon, I had choir and singers ensemble which went well. They were fun actually! I had myself a little jam session with a piano for awhile afterwards, and then I went to the gym for a lovely workout. Even though I make the best of the really small gym room, it still bites that there is only one treadmill and only one elliptical. I miss 24's expansive layout. Later, I did some reading for the paper I have to write for Shakespeare class, and it put me to sleep (which is why I didn't blog last night). Next to studying music, studying literature is a drag. It's really strange because I used to enjoy picking through articles and analyzing literature. Things are changing, I guess. Maybe it's just the London fog, which btw was sooo thick yesterday! Here's the view from my room:
The picture doesn't even do it justice. The sky was white! At night, it looks super creepy! (That's the bus on its break, btw. HAHAHA! erg. typical.)
I guess the last couple days haven't been that exciting. Just everyday stuff. I'll have to work on changing that. Hmmmm, what's next?
Prayer Request of the Day: That I would use my time wisely.
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