Monday night was awesome. We decided to have a mini family council when we got home from work. I don't remember if it was that night, but we did watch Mission Impossible 4:Ghost Protocol, which was a super good movie. Sarah and I have made a commitment to do some form of exercise consecutively everyday, for at least 15-20 minutes. Well, to kick-start it all off, we went to the Guerrero Park to go kick around the soccer ball that my dad gave us the last time we went. It is a red and white soccer ball, with Peru written on it. We did some pulling of the ball with the bottoms of our feet, than we maneuvered it around make-shift cones made out of waterbottle, keys, wallet and something else. Then we practiced kicking the ball at a goal that is found in that park. I felt super happy because Sarah was doing so well. I really enjoyed playing around with her. Than I told her about the game that my dad would use to play with a soccer ball in a tennis court, except we played it without the net. On our way home we called the President, because it was his birthday.
For the following day, my wife got a Polo from my brother saying he has been feeling the worse he's felt since he got off the mission. He has just moved back to Provo, and on Monday he started his new job with the BYU Sportsnation people. I'm sure that is a bit stressing. He reached out to Her personally for help to increase his arsenal of things he can use against the feelings he is having. I hope he gets better soon. I really do love that kid. I am really happy that he reached out to Sarah. I've been trying to get him all week since Thursday last, but I have heard bo-diddly. So, it was cool that he reached out to Sarah with how he's been feeling. She gave him some good pointers as to what to do to help better his situation. Hopefully it was useful, and that he keeps reaching out.
School has been super great. Although, Tuesday was long, and I'm sure tomorrow will feel even longer, because we will add the extra one-on-one class with Leia Wasbotten, my private instructor. I am actually pretty excited to meet with her, because I will finally be able to choose some good music for the German pieces that need to be sung for my diction class and jury.
I was thinking about singing the song from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat called "Close Every Door," but I haven't been able to find the copy that is at my house in California. I have been looking at other songs, and I have found a German singer, Hans Hotter, who is an amazing singer of the language. For the first song that I am going to use to test out my range and singing ability in front of her, I have chosen, "Oh, Home Beloved wherever I wander" from the hymnbook. Anyways, I am super excited for that extra portion of my schedule.
Speaking of extra portions: I have been made a second tenor in choir. The first day or so I was sitting by a guy named Jacob. He was super cool and very chill and laid back. Well, as of yesterday and today, I was asked to sit/stand next to a man of 41 years of age named Michael. I was, at first, a little annoyed by him. He seemed to know all about the pieces we were singing to a fault. He also made comments about certain things that I didn't really appreciate at the time. Well, this has reminded me of Sarah's first experiences with Tyler Hudrlik, one of misjudgment and annoyance. Well, I decided to actually get to know him a bit, and while he could be annoying still, I just choose to laugh. I'm excited to get to know him better. He says that he is a very good sightreader, and he is also very powerful when it comes to singing the tenor part. He could actually lead us if he wanted to. He was really funny today, because I chose not to judge him to harshly.
The other day, I was able to go to my studio class, which is the group gathering for the one on one private instructions. I was able to extend a hand of caring to a girl named Brielle, or Bri for short, that was feeling a bit overwhelmed by everything that had occurred to her. She had just found out that she had to join "Diction" class as well, and she was already stressed as it was because she (and I) had just learned that we will have to cover the costs of an accompanist for our pieces that we perform for those classes, for every practice (probably $15 per half hour session and $5 for the actual performance). I told her that she didn't need to worry about German Diction, that we hadn't covered to much just yet and that she would be okay. I think I may have a new friend, soon.
Work has been super great...we've been getting up on time for it, even for work like today that was at 5AM. But I was able to talk to Matt about his own Podcast that he had done with a fellow friend. He told of how they talked about everything under the sun, all while in a bar. I have been wanting to write a Podcast instead of videos about the scriptures, and everything else LDS related. I spent a good portion of work today thinking about why I want to do a podcast, and hopefully I will reach those that belong to a certain demographic of people that just want to earn more about the church of Jesus Christ.
I've also reached out to an elderly fellow named Arthur Hamilton that has written some music and he sent me the mp3s yesterday. Pretty good country.
Sarah did a good job at her relief society activity yesterday and the food was so good. Definitely time for bed.
