Family Weekend

Hello....again! It's been a trying week, I went from having minimal amounts of homework to having two papers to write, 300 pages to read, and five pages of my theory homework to do. Talk about passive aggressive assignment...ing! But that's what I originally expected from college, so I think I'll adjust just fine to the work load, just not this weekend.

I can mostly attribute my lack of motivation due to the fact that this weekend was “Family Weekend” here at Luther. This basically means that 99% of the students here had their parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles...and second cousins. Anyway, I was part of that 99%. A lot of people's families come up on Friday night for some events the college has then, but most people come up Saturday for the football game and choir and band concert, like my mom and brother. I hadn't seen my brother since I moved in a month ago, and he grew about another inch (he's now a 6'4'' [ish] 15 year old). It was fun to show them around campus and share everything I had taken in over the last month in about 2 hours.

Later in the day, I had my first Norsemen concert, along with Aurora, Cathedral, Cantorei, and Collegiate choirs, and the Varsity and Wind and Percussion bands. Looking at that list, it looks like it would make a long concert, but it was only about an hour and 15 min. Shortly after the concert, I had to make the short jog from the CFL (Center for Faith and Life), to the cafeteria in the Dahl Centennial Union for the Jazz band concert. It was a “soda shoppe” event hosted by the SAC (Student Activities Committee), which basically means people ate ice cream and listened to... slash danced to... the music of the Jazz Band and Jazz Orchestra (Jazz II and I respectively). As boring as my day sounded, I really enjoyed spending time with a portion of my family again. I was a classic case of not missing them until I was gone. Well, that's all I have for this week!
Later!
Jake