25/7/18Week OneMy siblings still have an extra week of holidays this week, so my family decided to go up to Coffs Harbour camping. I’ve got uni, and I didn’t really feel like camping anyway so I’ve stayed home. It's been really quiet which has been nice. One of the worst things at the moment is that it takes an extra 20 minutes to walk to/from the station so I’m having to leave home even earlier to get to uni.
MondayToday, I had my 9am Western Music lecture. I ended up leaving home at around 7, and it was really freezing on the way to the station. We were going over music of the Renaissance today and some of the history behind it. We have another listening list for this unit, and our listening tests are worth 35%. I have both a test on the listening list and lecture content in week 4.
TuesdaySurprisingly, I actually enjoyed my music theory lecture today. We were just going over revision from last semester on cadences. I found that this new lecturer spent more time going over the terms/definitions and then giving examples then the lecturer I had last sem. We also have a test in week 4 over the content of the lecture content we’ve learnt.
I then had my performance lab lecture. For the first 30 minutes, we had someone talk about how trimesters will affect our performance classes next year. Each course next year will be 12UOC and go over the entire three terms. They are changing the structure of the classes a bit next year and we’ll only have one performance exam in the year compared to 2 this year. The rest of the lecture was incredibly boring and it ended up going for the entire 2 hours, when last sem almost all of our lectures finished early.
Wind sympth was fun today, and almost all of the clarinets came back for this sem. We have a concert in week 12, which I think is just the wind symphony.
I think I’m going to have to do 3 speeches this semester which I’m really not looking forward to. For western music, I have to do a 5 minute presentation on a Schuman piece I’ve been assigned in week 8. For performance Lab, I think we have to present at another studio, and for education we have a 7-8 minute presentation on a topic given next week.
ThursdayI’ve signed up for one of the Bible studies at uni, so I have that tomorrow. I haven’t been to a Bible study since year 9, so hopefully it’s good. One of my friends from school has been talking to me about it and said she’s enjoyed it. I also have my first education lecture and I’m hoping it’s a lot better than last sem.
I brought Shawn Mendes tickets today and am going with my sister and a friend. I’m really excited except the concert is in November next year! I’m also going to buy/pick up my new clarinet on either Friday or Saturday which is really exciting.
Hope everyone’s having a great first week back!!