Let Winterlight Come

Last Thursday, I went to see Cirque du Soleil's KOOZA. It was, predictably, awesome. It gets back to the roots of circus acts, focusing primarily on acrobats and clowns, but in a Cirque style. It's definitely not as awe-inspiring as most of their other shows (certainly not as much as the resident shows, which can afford to have lavish, complicated stages and such), but it was a lot of fun.

The basic story behind KOOZA is that there is this bumbling little man who can't get his kite to fly (no, not Charlie Brown). He gets a present, which turns out to be this flamboyant, self-confident acrobat, who magics the little guy away to a strange land ruled(?) by an absent-minded king, and filled with all sorts of weird people.

( This ramble can basically be summed up as: If you have a chance to see Cirque du Soleil, TAKE IT. )

The first week of classes went pretty well. I've sorted my schedule out. I'm taking Music Theory I and Geography instead of Physical Science and Ecology. So far, I've got a renewed appreciation for having learned to read/play music at a young age. A few people in the class haven't had any experience with reading sheet music and some of the concepts seem hard to grasp, while I can't really remember when I wasn't able to look at a piano and have some sort of paper to read off of - even if it was just an early page from my first piano book, where the fingers were just numbered.

I think most of the people are pianists and/or guitarists. One of the other girls (there's only three of us - I was surprised) is a drummer, and one of the inexperienced guys is a musical theatre major (and hella gay >.>). I don't know if anyone else is coming in from a string group. It's kind of exciting actually learning keys and whatnot, because that was one thing I never had to figure out as a violist. As long as you could look at the music and figure out what was sharp and what was flat, it didn't matter if you knew that it was in Bb major. :P

For the short version of everything else...

Art History: Interesting, historical, artistic, yay
Early Childhood Education: A bit of review so far, but this isn't like any class I've taken before, subject-wise, so it's a good way to start
Geography: Teacher likes doomsday predictions, but he's lively so I won't fall asleep
Tutor Training: Fun, but also intimidating. It sounds like it'll be a lot of work, a lot of self-critque (we have to watch ourselves tutor on video. TWICE), but the people are interesting (we did ice-breakers. The Japanese girl pronounced my name as Erizabeth, which was cute. There's a Chinese guy named Yan - prounounced 'ying' - who does tricking, and my teacher has walked on hot coals).

One of my Japanese stalkees from last semester (Jin) has gone blondish. Or, well, a light orangey-brown. It looks better than I'm making it sound, but the jury's still out. >.>

I think that's all for school news. Parents are going out of town all next week, so I'll have the house to myself. I decided while grocery shopping with Mom that I want to move out, soon. For awhile, I've been content to just tough it out at home, but I realized that I enjoy doing things on my own - like shopping. I think grocery shopping is fun. I do my chores (and then other housework) more willingly when I don't have someone nagging me to do it. I probably don't budget my time as well, but after the initial "YAY, Freedom!" part, I settle down.

...I just need a job, first. >.>