Hot week
Friday, September 14, 2012
9:26:00 am
After the rain over the weekend, it's been pretty warm this week. Hot and very windy! But according to the weather forecast it seems temperatures are going to be dropping over the next few weeks as we head into autumn!
Today cycling home, the clouds were so cute, they looked like... marioland?
There are ducks EVERYWHERE! Today, in school, sitting outside eating lunch, there were ducks there! Wonder where they came from...... Somedays we sit on the grass. We have lockers like those you see in TV shows (you know... like Glee....). There are tons of ducks at Gibbons Park in the water. And tons of ducks in the park where you head south. The park connectors make really good running paths! Except for the party of flies........ But the tracks connect all over! I may have been running too much though, shin kinda throbs.. Not sure if it's from the running or from all the activeness in class and might have had some blue blacks at the front!
Took my tetanus shot yesterday..
Class has been good so far! I like the sense of humour and how awesomely good our instructor is... I like his constant reference to Nike:
Thanks to the sister, I am rather Nike-fied here... 3 Nike tops, all socks and shoes are Nike, backpack too..
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| Our classroom |
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| My toolbox |
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| Corridor of the practice rooms for us to practise |
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| Work-in-progress |
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| Iconic tower of the university |
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| The loops we made for stringing pianos |
During class while practising various repairs/regulation, we were brainstorming for what fund-raising activities we can do. Lotsa trips for us! We'll be heading down to Toronto to visit the conservatory and some shops there. And there's the Convention in April. And also our New York trip where we'll be visiting lotsa cool places including Steinway! See the factories, and production lines, supply shops, etc! Hence the need for money! So anyway, the best idea so far, is to let people pay to take a sledgehammer to a piano. Thus far, we have 3 donated pianos for our course out of which 2 have been taken apart for our usage. And on the classifieds there are lotsa old pianos going out for free! I mean, how often do people get the chance to smash a piano up no? Haha! Other ideas were to have a concert since we have so much talent among us - degrees in Piano Performance, masters even! I like how this course is so practical, and she tells us how we can make some of our own tools from this/that!
I have a friend - Anne, from France! And I'm learning new french words everyday! It's amazing how good her English is considering this is her first time living in an English world! She did her Masters in Montreal but in French.
All in all, it's been tiring but fun, learning lots. Don't feel homesick, YET. I guess because the weather is still warm and they haven't started drowning us, YET. I think I'm enjoying myself here 40%, and the other 60% wishes the 253 days are over.....
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