So, I'm off for New Orleans tomorrow. My college's jazz ensembles are taking a near-week long trip to the land of jazz to play a few concerts. It'll be a grand time, I'm sure. We're staying in the French Quarter and playing 3 concerts in some pretty awesome locations, not to mention that I am now of legal age to drink and it's NEW FREAKIN' ORLEANS! I get to spend time with friends and relax before I head back for Spring Semester. Somehow, though, I'm feeling nervous.
See, within the first two weeks of next semester I have to perform for our music faculty to see if I can go on to advanced percussion lessons, and seeing as how I need two semesters of these lessons, I need to pass it this time or else I won't be able to graduate next year. While I know that an extra semester or two would reduce stress and I wouldn't mind spending extra time in college (since I love my college) I still don't like taking out loans and such. I keep stressing because I am not as prepared as I had hoped to be at this point, and with a week in New Orleans I won't be able to practice my solo music, meaning that's a week to forget all that I have practiced.
Some words of advice were giving to me by my mother today about this subject. She said that I shouldn't look so far into the future. This is what I need to keep thinking of. Everything has gone fine so far, and I'm sure I can get through this alive. All I know is that everything will work out somehow in the end, and this will be as it is meant to be. Nothing can stop me from fulfilling my goals, and I know it.
And so, I leave you, my faithful readers (if there are any out there, I'm not sure) for, most likely, a full week. There may be a point in my trip that I get to leave a post, in which case I will be sure to make it a good one, but more than likely it'll be a while.
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