new developments...

i am currently at a loss for what to do with my life next year. i thought i had a plan, and i did, but now there is potential for more than one pathway that i could take next year. my plan for as long as i can remember was to be a student missionary, if possible the year after i graduated from college. so i have kept this idea in the front of my mind all throughout my college experience. i was planning to figure out during this coming semester where i want to go as an SM next year. but now it seems that i have to decide what i'm going to do in a very short amount of time. i got a message from a girl who used to take violin lessons from my former violin teacher. she's been teaching at the community music school in my hometown of kelowna for the past few years i believe. so she told me that saw i was studying music and graduating this school year, and then she said that the music school is looking for a new suzuki violin teacher for next school year...to start teaching in the fall. the music school is apparently having a meeting in a couple weeks to discuss this issue, which means that i need to make a decision pretty quickly. i realize that it's not a job that i for sure would get just if i say i'm interested, but if i do say i'm interested then there's potential for me to get the job. so now i don't know what to do. i hadn't wanted to come back to my hometown right away after graduating, but since this opportunity has come to me, i'm wondering if it might be an opportunity from God. my first thought was that although it was pretty cool (seeing as that's exactly the type of work i would want to eventually do) i still wanted to stick to my plan of being an SM. but after thinking about it and talking to my family i'm wondering if maybe i should tell them i'm interested. then i can leave it up to God...if i get the job then that will hopefully be what he wants me to do, for the time being at least...and if i don't then that will be my sign to be a student missionary next year. anyways that's the new news in my life recently. my plan for now is to pray about it this coming week and see where that takes me...

new himym site from last night...

video on the website:



the website:

http://www.itwasthebestnightever.com/

anthem by 6, 7, and 8 year old singers...

check out this video...

canada's got talent...

because of the popularity of britain's got talent and america's got talent, maybe there should also be a canada's got talent. this could be a great act for it, haha. i'm sure some of you have seen it, but i'm also sure some haven't. oh and we don't say "about" the way she says it. i don't know why that stereotype even exists. anyways enjoy the canadian 90s...

blogging time: random things...

it's time to blog again. i miss southern! i can't wait to go back, except for facing the humidity. it'll be nice to get away from the smokiness of kelowna though, due to kajillions of fires in the area. well ok, not quite THAT many, but everywhere you go there seems to be another fire. the weird thing is that the biggest fire currently in bc is at this mountain which i quaded to the top of a mere 5 weeks ago. when the fire started it was only 2 weeks after i had been there. anyways at least i have pictures on the mountain proving i've been there. on another note, im sipping the world's biggest slurpee right now. tyler got this humongous slurpee jug at 7-eleven and filled it up the whole way. he couldn't drink it all so he passed it off to ali and me. by now it's basically orangey water. at work i'm inserting a bunch of new cabinet sizes into spreadsheets. extremely thrilling i know. oh well. my playlist just changed to owl city, so that's a bright spot in the day. which reminds me that a bunch of us are going to an owl city concert in atlanta in september! it's gonna be AWESOME! what isn't awesome is that i have my rcm music history 4 exam in 2 days. when i did theory and history in high school i always did the courses in lessons over the span of a year. but this time i'm doing it on my own and i started about a month ago...ya procrastination loves me. so i'm a little freaked out, but i hope it'll go ok. once the exam's done (if i pass) then i can finally get my official certificates for my grade 10 violin and grade 10 piano exams...so yay for that! anyways the last random thing i have to say is that i ate some watermelon the other day. that's it for now, so goodbye till next time...

logoeing...

ali and i created a new sport called logoeing (basically canoeing, but on a log and paddling with your hands), we logoed halfway across this lake on our faithful log steed henrietta, from an island in the middle all the way to one of the ends...it took us about 45 minutes, (it probably would have taken less than 5 if we were swimming)...

singing cats...

budget brake and muffler...

the ultimate coolest brake and muffler store, budget brake and muffler, has been a favorite of mine and ali's for years. not because we ever go there, cuz we don't, but because they have the coolest song ever on their commercials. the radio song is slightly better than the tv song, but all i could find was the tv version. so you can be entertained by 2 budget commercials and one budget presentation:)



Commercial #1
Commerical #2
Presentation

to find out more about budget, visit their website here!

inspiration...

my siblings keep telling me i need to start blogging again. well anyways, here we go. i'm back home for the summer and it's kinda weird. i like being at school, and when i get back home and there's no schoolwork or anything like that i just get restless and wish i was back at college. i love college, it's so many millions of times better than high school, and i'd rather go to school any day than work. it's not necessarily working i guess, but it's the whole summer job thing. once you're out of college you have the freedom to pursue the type of career that you trained for, doing what you want to do. but in the summer, well for one thing you have to work to make money for college. if you didn't, you would just be plain bored doing nothing. but it's only a summer job so it's hard to find a job that really means something to you, motivates you, and interests you. the best parts of summer are definitely when i have chances to go on any type of trip. ty and my dad are on their 2nd work trip of the summer already, they went to a woodworking show in germany and now are at software training in montreal. so far i've been to vancouver/whistler. it was fun, but i want to go on a big exciting trip. my mum wants to go somewhere with me and my sisters, but so far there's not really anything planned out. in the meantime, i want to have some type of project this summer to keep me busy and so that i have a goal and something to work towards. i'm hoping that me and my siblings will make a cd that will rock everyone's socks off. tyler has recording equipment so i need to start thinking of some killer musical ideas. anyways that's all of my ponderings for now. seeya next time...

southern 08/09 video...

this is a video of pics of me and my siblings and friends throughout this school year. if you watch it, you might see yourself...

my composition...

so for analysis of musical forms class i had to write a canon the other week. a canon is a contrapuntal composition that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration. a simple example is row, row, row your boat. anyways, i wrote it between my classes on the day it was due and finished it on time to hand in. it's a 2 voice canon in c major, with the 2nd voice coming in at an octave below after one measure. so now i will let you hear this amazingly inspired composition, haha...



now we have to write the exposition of a fugue, which will be millions of times harder. it's supposed to be kind of like the equivalent of a term paper. so we'll see how that goes...

animation pictures...

ali gave me the idea to post an animation pictures blog...so here it is! now, for all of those who don't know what in the world animation pictures are, let me tell you. or rather show you. or how about both. ok, animation pictures are a set of at least 2 pictures (or sometimes 3, maybe even more) that are similar but slightly different. they are taken one after another, with slight or more varied movements from some people or objects in the pictures. in order to see the animation, you have to go back and forth between the pictures as fast as possible. the key here is not just going forward and then stopping, but after you reach the last picture, you have to press the back arrow and see them backwards, then go forwards, then backwards...and so on for quite a few times to get the full effect. they can get really funny sometimes, especially with ali's computer since it has the ability to go from picture to picture basically at the speed of lightning.
animation pictures were first discovered during orchestra tour to europe last year, when ali and danielle discovered 2 very hilarious pictures that we got of a fellow orchestra member. thus these types of pictures were called animation pictures. i'd love to show you this particular set of pictures, but it may cause embarrassment to this person if they found my blog. but i'll show you some others that we have happened upon. i wish there were a way to put them on here so you could arrow back and forth between them, but i guess if you wanna do that you can drag them to your desktop and try it from there. anyways, here are some examples:

this first set is of ali during this past christmas when we were getting our christmas tree:





next is from orchestra tour last year...the main animation is me going from sitting up to lying down:




also during orchestra tour is this group of 3 jumping pics in gronigen, holland...the first picture was an entirely separate jump from the last 2 pics, but i think they kinda work well all put together, mostly looking at AJ (the guy who's jumping really awesomely):





to end off, here's a set from last summer when we drove 2 hours into maine from new brunswick just so we could get to our 43rd state...so this is ali and tyler demonstrating "hip shifts" that was shown on a sign at a welcome center, telling you to change your position when you're driving for long periods of time...so first the sign, then the animation pictures:

tucker's 6th birthday...

so today we had a family birthday party for my nephew tucker. he turned 6 on january 6. whoa i just realized he had his golden birthday!! wow! anyways here's ali and coral and me playing with legos first off:



then we ate...and tucker's mom made him this awesome magic treehouse cake...



i don't know how she did it cuz it looks super hard to create. coral ended up with a really chocolatey mouth:



tucker got a stomp rocket toy so we were all playing in the backyard with that for like an hour. that was the funnest part. here's tuck about to try it out:



and here's coral with her quiver:



tucker and me:



and now i shall show you a couple videos of me and tuck teaming up on the stomp rocket:

#1:


and #2: