Scholarships…
Hello again. Actually, I doubt anyone reads this blog so that would theoretically mean that I am saying hello to no one. How sad.
Anyway, life…I spent all yesterday in Wollongong. I auditioned for the Wollongong Conservatorium String Scholarship. I was all completely relaxed when I arrived, unpacked, had a warm up etc. Then the moment I walked in to the audition room and sat down, nerves came rushing upon me. Why? I don’t know. I wasn’t stressed or worried about it or anything, at least I don’t think so. And I was just playing for two really nice old people. So why did I get nervous? So jolly annoying. So basically I played really feral because I was so damn nervous. I played the same pieces that I played for an audition for a school scholarship last month. And I played sooo much better at the school audition. So I’m a bit annoyed at myself for letting my nerves getting the better of me. But I’m not that worried about the scholarship. If I don’t get a scholarship (of which I am 99.9% sure I won’t get), I don’t really mind at all. I’m just annoyed because I know I could’ve played so much better.
But, speaking of scholarships…I received a letter in the mail yesterday from Oxley College where I did the school audition for. They. Have. Given. Me. A. Full. 100%. Scholarship. For. Year 11 and 12!!!!! Can you believe it? No, neither can I. I think I am still in shock that they have actually accepted me and have given me a full scholarship because a lot of the time they only give out part scholarships. So it’s quite exciting but extremely scary at the same time as well. In the past it’s always been “I might be going to school”. Now it’s pretty much I’m definitely going to school. So yeah, quite a scary thought. But awesomely awesome at the same time. (Yes, there I go again using the words “awesomely awesome”.)
Anyway, back to the subject of yesterday. So played at scholarship at the conservatorium. Then the brother, Jeremy had a bassoon lesson because he has his AmusA exam on Saturday. Whilst that was going on, one of my awesomely awesome friends, Tiffany who went for the string scholarship as well, hung around and we talked. Then we all went to her Dad’s Chinese restaurant for lunch. Was lots of fun, but very naughty of Tiffany and her parents because they hardly charged us anything at all for the lunch. Then Tiff invited us back to her place for the arvo because we had a few hours to kill before having to go back to the conservatorium for Jeremy to have a rehearsal with his pianist for his bassoon exam on Saturday. So back at Tiffany’s place we watched anime all afternoon. Quite funny because there’s this anime called “Nodame Cantabile”. It is seriously cool because it’s all about a music conservatorium in Japan. And basically, to sum it all up, there’s a guy who’s doing a degree at this conservatorium, and he wants to be a conductor. And yeah. It’s really quite funny.
And yeah. Why did we not live in Wollongong? Seriously. Why? We spend half our life down there, we spend so much time traveling to and from Wollongong…so much easier if we lived there. However we don’t…and there’s not much we can do about it, so I really should stop complaining.
So yeah, that’s basically what happened yesterday. The rest of the week was pretty boring and didn’t do much.
