Snow Squalls

Hello friends,

It is the first week of school. That means it is the time for long lines of waiting to buy textbooks, searching odd and new buildings to find your classroom, and best of all lots of introductory homework. Just tonight I had to read a long british poem, read an article about the brain and Alzheimer's disease, and read a lengthy discussion on how the brain works out of another book. That does not include music homework like learn a two chord song to be played in piano class, or learn a two chord song with an alternate bass pattern for guitar.

However, i'm not complaining about the homework. I simply want to acknowledge that I have a lot of homework. The exciting part is that most of my homework is indeed very interesting.

I went to the bookstore today and purchased all my books for the semester (well most of them). The total came out to be $220. Afterwards, I went to the dorm and out of curiosity looked to see how much those exact same books were at Amazon, that total $130. I did not hesitate to go ahead and purchase the books from Amazon. I'll be returning my books back to the bookstore and ultimately save myself 30 bucks. That is very important as a poor college student.

Today i'm going to leave you with a bit of wisdom. I had studio class yesterday and one of the things Dr. Porterfield asked us was "what is something that has improved your life today? What has changed your life today in a positive way?" In reflection that was a fascinating question. What has happened to improve my life that particular day? Was it the endless amounts of homework or the quality time I spent with friends? Was it the adventure of walking across campus in the snow or a good meal in the cafeteria? Ultimately, the answer I chose was learning that I had an apartment for next year lined up. I've decided that each day in my blog posts (if I remember) I am going to post what has positively impacted my life today, because thats what we all should do. We focus so much on the bad because thats the way society tells us to think. We need to remember to look at the positives and look at how we can make someone else's day positive. With that said, my life changing-positive event of today was going to talk to Financial aid about funding for Korea. Having that information will push me one step closer to going to Korea and attending the World Congress of Music Therapy! I hope I can go.

Well, I'm off to do some more homework, but please think about the positive change in your life that occurred today (whenever today is for you).