Back home....and missing people like mad

Overall, I must say that my experience at Eastman was really good. Way better than Interlochen. Well, I guess that the TEACHING at Eastman was better, but I think with Eastman's program only being 3 weeks long, I didn't become as close to them as I did to my Interlochen friends. I did make a few close friends though, and for the first time in like 5 years, I finally was able to sing in front of people without getting extremely nervous. I guess I just started to get used to it after singing a ton with the guy I was accompanying and by the time I had to sing solo for voice class, I was really prepared. And I learned a ton there too. I will definately be applying there, but right now, I have to decide whether I should go for music education or piano performance. Both my private lesson teacher and the director of the program told me that I could get in as a music education major, but if I audiitioned for piano performance, it could go either way. So I'm really praying about it. I don't really want to learn how to play all of the instruments that are in the orchestra, because that will really take away alot of my piano time. Plus, I would have more gen-ed requirements as a gen-ed major. Yet, I don't wanna be stuck without a good college to go to by applying for performance. And according to the Dean at Eastman, it's best to apply right when the application opens online (which is September 1st), so I only have like a month to decide. :( Anyway, I should probably get off the computer. Later,
Rachel