back from music course!

im now back in birmingham (tho not staying here long, physio appointment and then watford!)

the course wasnt tooooo bad, i was releived to hear the others were just as under prepared as i was!

found food a little difficult. i dont know if it was her serving massive portions, or me under eating, but i didnt really get to the end of my plate... but she kept serving me just as much, felt very wasteful! everyone else ate more, but im not used to eating that regularly any more, so felt like i was eating to much. she got the hint with desserts, and served me 'charlotte' sized portions! i dont think i did too badly tho, i mean with dessert etc it would have added up to normal meal sizes i think.

she wound me up a little (has a habbit of doing that!), she wont accept that my lower pitch treble (which is slightly bigger), is too big for me. she keeps telling me i should build up my playing time, but when you have had repetative strain injury, it doesnt really work like that! it just hurts my wrists every time i play it :(

i recorded both bits of the master class i was in, and i listened to them last night, i think it will be useful to have them, and also i listened to my playing, and its not as bad as i was convinced it was!

the other crazy scary thing is that my teacher now wants me to go in for my LTCL at christmas :shock: for those of you who dont know, its a diploma, thats meant to be the equivilent in performance standered as the end of your undergrad at music college (so 4th year)... i know iv taken a year out, but il only be in second year, and quite frankly i wasnt with it enough in first year (or the bit of second year i was in) to have improved like i should have done... it seems like a crazy thing to aim for, bit she is pretty convinced.

i dont know, in first year the others were always like 'you cant play that, im in 4th year and playing it, your only in 1st year', so to do all of this music which i generally associate with 4thyears and postgrads seem mental!!! im not good enough to be doing this yet :-?