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Well part one of my summertime thing is officially kicked off. Ha ha, first of all, I want to say that, amazing as it is, even though I supposedly have all this extra time because of being out of school, I NEVER GET ANYTHING DONE!!!!!!!!!! GAH!!!!!!!! So you… summer doesn’t have enough time… just throwing it out there.

Anyway, my mom recently printed out a list for me of college dorm necessities and it looks like underwear and socks are going to fast become precious commodaties, along with such things as tablets of laundry detergent, a mini-fridge, and a microwave with many microwavable food items to cook in it. Also coffee, but I already knew that. This list also, very kindly, pointed out that I wouldn’t need a vaccuum because, let’s face it, who is going to be cleaning (unless the mess turned atomic, in which case, INTERVENTION).

Looking at the list though, I was suddenly struck with a realization of how soon this is going to be… and how alone I was going to be. Yes, this list of survival items, witty advice, and the occasional odd story, was going to be one of the few weapons I would have on my side heading into college. Strangely, though I was intimidated, I was… exhilerated. I wasn’t scared.

I only just realized how scary moving out is, and, really, I’m kinda glad I have college to help me along on that. But, anyway, that’s this week for you.

For now, I await notification of my roommate so we can coordinate on stuff to buy. I’m also waiting to be assigned a counselor and stuff. So I’ll keep ya posted as that comes along For now, I’m signing out!!

Sarah

P.S. This web page is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!!!!!!

Well, having officially been on break for a whole week now, I decided I had better start writing again.

First, I must say, I do enjoy getting out earlier than a lot of people, even if it is only a week or two, because it’s fun to laugh at them about it. Also, the break has been nice so far. I’ve got some writing done on the story I began in creative writing last semester, and I’m going to start brushing up on my Japanese for the tests this fall.

Right now I am in the middle of transferring from Iowa Western to Wheaton College in  Wheaton Illinois, and, man, I am so excited! I’m absolutely terrified too, but that’s alright. I’m just so nervous about moving into a dorm, figuring out how things work around my new campus, and leaving my family. Like I said, though, I am excited; it’ll be a great new step in my life and, I’m sure, once I’m used to it, I’ll never want to go back

I’m waiting, at this point in transferring, for news about who my roommate will be so we can collaborate on what we need for our dorm. Other than that, this looks like it’ll be a nice, lazy summer, which I’m looking forward to enjoying.

Well, enjoy Memorial Day weekend and I hope nobody is rained out.

Have a great one!

Sarah

*Memorial day Memorandum*

 In dedication and memory of those who lost their lives

Unselfishly giving all…

http://pjbottoms.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/they-shall-not-grow-old-memorial-day/

…So that the rest of us may live… free.

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Yes, I did say goodbye. No, this is not my last post forever, I have been allowed to blog about my transition to Wheaton. If this were my last post it would be much sadder.

I am saying goodbye to the semester and to all of you who are graduating and leaving Iowa Western. Goodbye, and I hope you have a wonderful life I also wanted to take a minute and say thank you to everyone who has read my blogs thus far, whether you started last week or last year, I have appreciated the support and the comments in this, my first real writing job. I also wanted to say a quick thank you to Lindsay Koch, she’s been a great boss. Also, to all the teachers that have meant so much to me, Sharon Eden, David Kay, Rosemary Moore, Hersh Rodasky, Gary Fiscus, Coreen Wees, all of you! You have been so great and I love you all so much. Thank you all, and thank you Iowa Western for giving me this opportunity and giving me such great classes to learn from.

Thanks and evryone have a great summer!!!

Signing out,

Sarah

So, when I finally run out of weird observations of the world, I fall back on what all writers could do in their sleep that requires little, or no, actual ‘work’; reviewing. This can be very funny if it’s negative, or very very boring unless the topic is a particularly interesting one. Thankfully, I got an interesting topic to do

Let me first say that Arla Clausen of the music department here at IWCC is amazing. I mean, WOW! That lady can put together a fantastic show! There was a recital performance of the choir, show choir, the Iowa Western gentlemen, and jazz band on Sunday and it was phenominal! But there were empty seats, so some people obviously missed out.

As it was, though, I have some specific observations to talk about, mostly because a few of these people were in my applied voice master class and I totally want to give them kudos on a great job.

The first thing I noticed that night was that John Jones was wearing a tux, and if you’ve ever seen this kid… I dunno, it would have been the last thing you would pick for him to wear. But he pulled it off, I was surprised ;P But that’s not all, of course, I just thought that was funny. I wanted to say he’s a fantastic performer as well. I figured he would be; he has a very flamboyant personality and he uses it to the best of his advantage. Also, it helps that he’s worked hard to be a great musician both with singing and piano.

Josh Elwood did great too! He’s another in my master class and he’s always been kinda nervous getting up solo even though he has a wonderful voice, but he got up and performed solo and duet without a hitch on Sunday! I was so thrilled for him; totally knew he could do it.

I also got the privilage of finding another someone who rather stood out, but who I haven’t yet gotten to meet. His name was Evan Rayborn. Particularly, he did a rather hilarious solo in the spoof of the song ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ that the Iowa Western Gentlemen sang while show choir was setting up. He hit notes I haven’t heard some girls hit before! His vocal range was amazing really.

As always, Rebecca Ronz stole the show. I knew she could sing really well from Master Class, but I found out she a great dancer too! In Show Choir, she was, by far, the best dancer there. She caught your attention because she looked like she was actually trying, unlike a lot of the girls who were just kinda going through the moves they’d learned. The guys, I thought, did great in the dancing because a lot of the show choir guys were also in the Iowa Western Gentlemen group.

BTW!!!! My favorite song that Show Choir did (which was my fav part of the whole thing) was ‘42nd street’. Great job!

But, really, it was hard to pick a favorite part of the show because the whole thing was just stellar performing. Everyone did… I dunno, amazingly well, including the Jazz band! Casey Sheets, a friend of my sister’s, was in it and I totally didn’t know.

But anyway, I should probably wind down before I get off on another tangent Congrats to the music department, it’s obvious how hard they’ve been working this year Good job to all the music teachers and especially Arla for pulling it together. Hats off.

Sarah