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Archive for January, 2010
Upcoming musical opportunites
Jan 15th
One reason that I needed to stay in practice over Christmas break was that I learned the other night that I made it on the summer tour group. Most of the music that the tour groups sing is fairly simple to accompany, but I would appreciate your prayers over the next few months as we get ready to travel.
Also, without giving too many details, there is another amazing musical opportunity that I’m praying will work out. I would have the chance to accompany an amazing violinist in some special concerts here in Phoenix, and it would help to develop me in the area of classical music. When I first began studying piano, I was being trained classically, since then things have taken a turn for the worse. For about nine years, I didn’t have a teacher, so much of what I learned, I learned incorrectly on my own, and I didn’t learn much theory at all. This next semester I’m going to be studying more classical music with Bro. Hopkins, and playing with a concert violinist will help by forcing me to have the music perfected enough for a concert.
So, these two posts are most of my five week Christmas break (one week left to go), and the break did exactly what I had hoped, it got me rested back up and looking forward to school again! Thanks for all of your encouragement, Philippians 1:3 comes to mind at the moment.
I can’t give a blanket promise for more posts next semester, but I will make an effort to turn this into something that’s enjoyable to read on a regular basis. Thanks for reading! Here’s one more song for you: Sing the Mighty Power.
Christmas Break recap
Jan 14th
West Coast, along with some other Bible colleges I think, gives us five weeks off to enjoy with our family at Christmas. And to work on projects for the next semester… yeah, that didn’t happen like I had hoped, but that’s ok. I am aware that this blog is supposed to be about my experiences at college, so let me warn you, this post doesn’t have a thing to do with college.
Now that half my readership is gone, let’s start.
We were able to schedule it so my mom came to Phoenix at the same time as me, and even though I’m content to be at school, I didn’t realize just how much I missed her. It was wonderful to spend a couple weeks with her, but she did have to leave right after Christmas.
Not before she babied me after my medical procedure though… oh yeah, I had my wisdom teeth removed on this trip too! I had a great doctor, so the procedure went well, and aside from a little trouble the first day, I healed very well and was able to eat Christmas dinner with the family. I did make the mistake of trying to much solid food too early, before I discovered that it’s not actually physically possible to chew when the back of your mouth is swollen. The bruising on my jaw is almost completely gone now, and thankfully the fat cheeks went down within about a week. As of last week when I went back for a checkup, the doctor told me that everything was healed perfectly, thanks to everyone who prayed that it would go well.
The Nigerian missionaries, David and Comfort Jacobs, whose ministry I visited last May, live here in Phoenix when they are in the states, and I was able to visit with them a couple of times. Even though I went to visit their ministry, I hadn’t actually seen them since I was very young (no, you don’t get to see the picture) so it was a wonderful reunion. They are returning to Nigeria at the end of this month, and I’m sure they would appreciate your prayers.
The hardest thing about break has been the lack of a piano to practice, but I’ve found people who’ve never heard me play before and begged them to let me use their pianos. 
Actually, I’ve gotten to do most of my practicing on an area church’s near-mint condition Yamaha C5. The other day I recorded a few songs with my new iPhone, so if you’d like to hear what I sound like after a semester of piano lessons with Daniel Hopkins, you may be rudely disappointed, but here’s People Need the Lord.