Highlights

I moved to Colorado almost two weeks ago now, and so much has happened in the past two days that I felt a desire to share my highlights with all of you:

• My apartment rocks.  $500 a month includes cable, internet, a washer and dryer, and furnishings.  Plus it's on campus and was just remodeled 3 years ago, so it has brand new paint, furniture, light fixtures, blinds, etc.  The only downside is I can't park on campus, so it's sometimes difficult to find parking, and I sometimes have to walk a ways to get to my car.

• My roommate rocks.  She has been so helpful with getting around Boulder, letting me hang out with her and her friends, and is a great listener!  Yay for Christina!

• There are SO MANY people here!  The University has 29,000 students.  That's amazing!  It's strange to walk across campus and not see one single familiar face.  I used not to be able to walk across campus without getting stopped, now no one knows me.

• My studio placement audition went way better than I could have hoped.  I later found out that all of the professors wanted to have me in their studios and that they are very excited to have me, even though I didn't score that well in the audition for admission.

• I'm studying under baritone extraordinaire, Patrick Mason.  You can learn more about him here: http://www.colorado.edu/music/faculty/mason.html  He has been really helpful already, and his excitement about having me is contagious.

• He asked me to sing for the entire vocal department, students and faculty, next week.  Ack!!

• I'm in University Choir! (That's a good thing.)  I'm also taking an opera theatre class that is putting on a scenes program December 1, so if you have some free time, come on out! :)

• I learned today that I will probably be the recipient of a full-tuition scholarship next year.  Yay!!

Okay, that's enough for now.  I'm off to study theory.  More later!