Life is a cabaret Old Chum...

Every year, the Transylvania Choir presents a musical variety show that we like to call Cabaret and each year the choral ensembles get to vote on a theme and then work like crazy for three weeks to pull together group numbers complete with choreography, not to mention all of the solo and group acts that are included.

The Transylvania Choir sings its way into hearts during Cabaret

This year the theme is "A Night at the Movies" and we have numbers ranging from the choir's rendition of "Eye of the Tiger" from Rocky to a solo of "Kiss by a Rose" from Batman Forever to my solo of "And All that Jazz" from Chicago. This is my favorite part about being in choir because I was a die-hard show choir member and musical star at my high school and this kind of rekindles all of that fabulousness.

My favorite part of all of this, is that the whole Transy community comes out to support the choral groups at all of this -there's first-years through seniors, faculty and staff, parents and alumni- all who come out to enjoy a fun night of entertainment. Another great thing that's happening this year is that all of the proceeds (tickets are $5) are being donated to Hope for Haiti.

Transy Boy's Acappella (TBA) is always a highlight of Cabaret

If you're interested in attending everything goes down this Friday and Saturday the 29th and 30th of January in Carrrick Theatre located inside of the Mitchell Fine Arts Center at 7:30 both nights. The box office will be open for ticket reservations Jan. 29, from 12:30-3 p.m. The phone number is (859) 233-8601.

Come check it out if you're in the area, it's a great way to see the dynamic of campus

The hills are alive with the Sound of Music!

Dear, dear readers. I do hope that you've had an enjoyable start to your new year, my own has been fairly eventful.

Let's see, during the last week of break the Transylvania Choir, of which I am a member of, had a "Continental Tour" aka we all piled on a charter bus and roamed about Kentucky and Indiana. Because the tour is conveniently situated in the middle of winter, our stop in Bloomington, IL was canceled due to snow and we skipped it after our show in Ashland, KY and we took a night off in Lexington and then the next day we got to travel to my hometown of Indianapolis.

We got there in the afternoon and had the opportunity, well I made the opportunity, for us to stop off at my high school, Arsenal Technical HS, and we got to share some of our music with them, they shared some with us and we sang a little together. That night we performed at my home church, Downey Avenue Christian Church, and the choir stayed with host families from my congregation, I got to stay at home and pick up some of the things I forgot. It was pretty amazing to be able to fill the sanctuary I grew up in with music from the place where I'm continuing my "growing up" process.

The next day we drove back to Covington, KY after lunch in Bloomington, IN and that night we had a mixer with some alumn's and a prospective student, I had lots of fun talking to the strangers because I'm wierd like that, but at the end we got to share a few of our songs. The next morning we participated in a worship service in Covington and then came back to Transy. I was quite a journey but fun was had by all.

Some of my choir friends and I at the mixer in Covington, KY

Since then classes have started and that's all a completely different story I'll update you all on at a later time, but for now have fun and stay dry!

Finals: A through F

I left you all before finals which is always an interesting time of the semester. I don't think that I (or any of my fellow bloggers) have explained about finals weeks at Transy.

Classes end one week before you're really done and the next weeks is Finals Week. You might have read about "Reading Day" this is always on Monday of Finals Week, it adds to the weekend to give a small reprieve to do some last minute studying for your finals on Thursday-Friday. Then each day is carefully planned out to provide a separate time for each final. For example, if you have a 9:30 MWF class you have your final at 3 on Monday and your finals for a 1:30 TTh is at 9AM on Thursday. This way you don't have to worry about overlapping finals and they usually work out to be fairly spread out.

I know this is a little late, but if you have any questions about finals or ANYTHING else about Transy just let me know! Comment or email me. Have a great day!

New Year, New Outlook?

Happy 2010 everyone! The beginning of a new year is always an exciting time because you suddenly recognize this whole new chunk of space of your calendar that you get to recognize and start planning for. Some of you are going to graduate from high school and start college this year, some of us will continue our college careers, some will graduate from college and start a new chapter, and others will continue in their current paths.

As always, my mom asked about our New Years Resolutions today at lunch- my dad had a list that included drinking more water and being happier everyday, my little sister opted for graduating from high school and toning her stomach (she keeps trying to get me to go to the YMCA with her to exercise, that's not really my things though,) my mom didn't really have any and I didn't have any when she asked but I figure it might be a good idea to come up with some.

1. Update my blog more - I know as lame as it sounds, I have a link to this here blog on my facebook profile in attempt to remind myself to update it as much as I'm on facebook but if that were true I'd have about a billion blogs opposed to the handful you've been given. I see this blog as a tremendous opportunity to reach out to those of you prospective students who can't get to campus to learn about the everyday life of a "typical" Transy student and I'd like to do more.
2. Eat better and less - You know the deal, same old, same old.
   
3. Exercise some - Like I said, this isn't really my thing; I've got bad knees that bother me when I do too much, but I'm going to try to start swimming some laps and maybe try to make it to yoga classes.
   
4. Start dating - Well... my boyfriend and I broke up during finals weeks and I haven't been single since Freshman year so I'd like to go out with some different guys and enjoy being single some... we'll see. :)

I spend the last week visiting relatives outside of Wichita, Kansas and spent my New Year's Eve there with my mom, grandmother, aunts, and assorted other relatives which was a different and enjoyable way to ring in the New Year.

One of my aunts is an artist, and I stole this photo of a wind-farm near their house.

Enough about me, I hope that you all have set up some good goals for your New Year and I wish you the best of luck in all of your endeavors in the coming year.