Intro to my new personal blog: the First and Second Day
So this is my personal blog. I'm currently in Governor's School East, for over the summer. My Area I is Choral Music. The application process is really hard, but it's completely worth it.
What is Governor's School? It's basically a five-week camp where you specialize in an area and then you have two other main classes that are kinda like psychology and sociology. Kinda. They're a bit broader than that, but that's the main idea of the courses. And then there are like four different electives in the afternoon free time you can go to if you feel like it. There's speakers, dances, presentations, performances, and the like as well. It's basically like school, but without the crap stuff like tests and grades. There's a bit of assigned reading, but that's all fun stuff.
To apply, your school has to nominate you, so you have to talk to your school counselor and crap. There are ten different areas in which to "major" in: Natural Science, Social Science, Mathematics, Theater, Dance, Art, Choral Music, Instrumental Music, Spanish, and French.
So what I had to do to get in was write a little something for my school to nominate me, and then I had to write two essays and list some stuff. And there was a county audition, and then a state audition. Tried last year, but I didn't make it. There were around 1000 students in the final round, and out of 350 students here, only 15-20 are actually rising juniors. It's hard to get in. So as a rising senior (another year of vocal training helped too), I made it this year.
So far it's been fantastic. The chorus sounds much better than I expected, and although the warm-ups suck, the teacher knows what she's talking about. Class is 24 strong. Our Area II and Area III classes (the things similar to psychology and sociology respectively) are marvelous- I get to be very opinionated. Lots of arguing in the Area III class about values and whether it is important to prioritize. I'll be posting more about that later. In Area II, we played "Two Truths and a Lie", which was fantastic. It wasn't your normal guessing "Hmmm, I think this is the lie." No. We cross-examined them to figure out the lie, and then raised hands. So much fun! And the teacher is genius. Both secondary areas hold roughly 20 people.
More blogging later. I'm constantly exhausted- busy from 7:30 until 9 today, and I assume that will be the usual from now on.