Piano.......

Sigh. Well, I really do have TONZ of piano stuff to do. I'm working on a bunch of new pieces for the coffee house. Plus, I have two new pieces from piano lessons and a new Sonata for accompanying the recorder trio thingymabob at the Saint Paul Conservatory of Music. Yeah. And then competition season is coming up so......I have tons of new music to memorize for that. And then I'm thinking and praying about entering this International competition. It takes place in Minneapolis, but it is and international competition and the grand prize is $8,000 and a trip to NYC to perform with an orchestra. Actually, there are up to 5 places. And if you get a first through fifth prize, you get a trip to NYC and you get to perform with the orchestra, but the money gets lessened each placement downwards you go (does that make any sense..........?). So yeah. Basically for the next month, I need to eat, sleep, live, and breathe piano. Which means that my computer time will be lessened and lessened. And I'll hafta get up quite a bit earlier. Sigh. But like Philipians 4:13 says, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. And the Lord will work everything out according to his plan and purpose. He's the Pilot of my life; I'm just going along for the ride. And I know that I can totally trust that whether I win all of the competitions in the world or if I never win another one, He'll always love me for who He's made me. And that means that there isn't any pressure on me. It's not about my performance. It's about what I do with my performance. Do I try to exalt myself? Or can others see Christ in me? Well, IDK how often I'll be on here for the next few weeks so.........hasta luego. Sincerely,
Rachel Gilbert

I AM BORED RIGHT NOW

Hi. I'm bored. And IDK what to write. Sigh.

I'm so dead

LOL, Okay, I was alive on September 7th. Now, I'm totally dead because I ran at least 6 if not 7 miles today. Talk about tired. I ran for half an hour around River Falls right after piano lessons, and for a full hour at home this evening. I'm SO SORE. Oh gosh.........okay, that's my post for today.

Oops

Okay, my last post was an accident. I pushed the tab key too many times. But I am still alive.............and, yeah. Um, there really isn't a whole lot to post about other than I'm SO GLAD that I removed this creepy guy from camp who kept following me EVERYWHERE on main camp off of my friends list on facebook. He had wanted me to have an online relationship with him (WHAT THE HECK!! I BARELY EVEN KNEW HIM)so...yeah. And then one of my cabinmates said that he asked her to have an online relationship (that creep.......). So yeah. Why am I even posting this? Oh yeah, because there isn't anything else to write about. Um......I'm working on like 5 Chopin Nocturnes right now.......hopefully I'll have them ready in like a month. And then I'm working on some Debussy Preludes. So.......that's pretty much it. THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO WRITE ABOUT!!! Oh, other than I'll be doing a string trio thing in a couple of weeks at the St. Paul Conservatory of Music. YAY!! Later,
sweetggirl

I'M ALIVE

Post on camp

Okay, so.......I'm back. Camp was awesome. I learned alot musically. All except two of my cabinmates were absolutely awesome. They were like the sisters that I'd never had........except for the fact that they were unbelievers. I did have to put up with alot of the gay stuff. I ended up getting in quite a few arguments involving gays and abortion. And I was really dissapointed that three of my straight guy friends were gay by the end of camp (well, one became bi.......but that's the same thing to me; it's all sinful and unnatural). And my guy friends who weren't gay were pretty much all perverts. I guess that those were the only two types of guys at camp.......pervs or gays. And then the cursing. Yeah, on main camp, during class, and in my cabin, I heard cursing. Eventually I just got over it (sort of...as much as you can), but I still didn't curse. But despite all of that, I had a wonderful experience. There were alot of people there who had heard the gospel......but most of those people rejected what they'd heard and were either atheists or agnostics. Okay, now for the fun side. There were plenty of co-recs to go to. I have to say that capture the flag was the funnest. It was in the woods (and DEEP woods......you could get lost if you weren't careful). And there were like two beach parties that I went to. They were really fun. I didn't get swimmer's itch either!! The first one was really really fun. And celebrating my cabinmate's birthdays was fun bc we would have cabin night....basically we could stay up and talk. And most nights we did that anyway........but we had to whipsper on most nights. THe cafeteria food did suck.....but we could order take out basically whenever (my cabin did 4 times). We had line up at 6:45 every morning and inspection for our cabin chores at 8:30 every morning except Sundays. One morning there was this thing called LSP (lost swimmer's procedure) and the high school girls were supposed to participate when it happened......but they weren't going to tell us when it happened. It's like this thing where you jump in the lake and search for a dead body (this one was just a drill) and the first like 15 girls out of all 375 of us HSG's had to jump in. So.......at 6:30 in the morning, they had the LSP. So while we were sleeping, these sirens went off, and guess who got down to the beach fairly quickly? ME. So......in my pajamas at 6:30 a.m., I climbed into the water and got sopped, IN my pajamas. Yeah, it was miserable. One girl was crying while we were doing it. So yeah. And then on the first day of camp, I started to pass out. Yeah. Well, this is long and I G2G. So........yeah, I'll talk to you guys later!!
sweetggirl

I'M BACK!!!

Hey. Um, I'm back from camp.........I feel totally different than I did when I left. IDK if that's good or bad,LOL. I guess that I'm not as innocent as I was,LOL. But yeah. Camp was great. I made TONZZZZ of new friends. So yeah. I guess that I'll just write more tomorrow. There is SOOO much to write about. Seriously, u guys need to get a facebook. I'll probably be posting alot of my thoughts and stuff on there from now on so......yeah.Facebook ROX!! K, Later,
sweetggirl