Just an update:

Things are going well here in Edmonton. I am enjoying my time off while I am searching for jobs. I actually have an interview for Passport Canada on Tuesday, which I am hoping will go well. Then I can finally tell my parents that I am employed. I think that they might have the impression that I made the wrong decision in moving here expecting to get a job. While it is most likely that I won't find a job in the arts, I am quite happy with just a job at an office. I will always have evenings and weekends to do my music. I might join a community band or something like that. Did you know that once you join a union that you can't play with people that aren't in the union? Stupid if you ask me. For this reason, I am not going to join the musician union here in Edmonton. I will keep my options open as far as my playing goes. 

Edmonton is a sad sight ever since the housing/rent prices have sky rocketed. I see more and more people on the street asking for money everyday. On Canada Day I noticed that there was an area that people were pitching tents to live and I read today in Metro that there are now 65 people living in that area. This means that they have enough people to be classified as a village. The government here needs to figure out what to do before winter hits or maybe the homeless will trek to Vancouver where the winter is a little warmer. I am very thankful that I have a roof over my head and food to eat. 

I have been dreaming about PEI and the Maritimes lately. I had a job in Halifax last night! So, maybe there is a trip in the near future... if only. Definitely need to start playing the lottery! Miss you all!

Wow. I haven't posted in a month! Damn facebook! Well, tonight is my recital and I am already nervous at 7:50AM... only 8 more hours to go. My dress rehearsal went really well, so I suppose that is why I am nervous. Bad dress= good recital. So what does good dress equal? I can only think that something will go wrong. BUT I have to stay positive. :) I haven't been doing anything besides practicing for tonight lately. I have ignored all readings for my other class and I have ignored the fact that I have a 10-15 paged paper due on April 5th, which I haven't done the research for! I hope I can pull that paper off!

I had a very strange dream last night. I was in rehearsal for Wind Ensemble and everything was going well until Marty asks the sax section to play by themselves... For some reason we couldn't play it together and I was getting more and more frustrated with the guys in my section. By the end of it Marty was yelling, so I got up and walked outside. Once outside I see there is a hay field that is cut into a maze of some sort (or people just stomped down the hay) and there are members of my pipe band old and new walking around the field playing the bagpipes (and drums). I tried to talk to Matt and Brady (the only two people I have ever looked up to when it comes to piping) and they ignored me. Then the pipe band started to march away and I didn't know what to do. In the end I went back inside, sat down and started to cry. That's when I woke up.

AND a couple of nights ago...  Amir and I were at a horse race track, I think, but it was made out of pavement. So in actual fact it was a road, this road had HUGE potholes in it. Throughout the entire dream the horse kept falling, getting hurt and once in awhile died. That's all I remember, but once again I was upset so I woke up.



I am back from Edmonton! I don't really want to be because it just means I start classes again. They should have reading week more often.