This weekend is going to be intense. Both tomorrow night and Sunday afternoon I will be singing in QC’s Choral Society/QC Orchestra’s performance of Mahler’s Symphony No.2! This piece is amazing from beginning to end. Made up of five movements, the piece starts with a furious first movement which catches your attention. It’s filled with […]
Month: December 2012
Preparing to Swim
This past Friday I went to my cooperating school with a small pit in my stomach – I was to find out exactly which class I will be teaching next semester. STUDENT TEACHING IS COMING! I observed one class of MATH143, a class exactly lined up with the last third of the Calculus unit at Queens college, and then […]
The Friday Of The Months
HAPPY DECEMBER ONE AND ALL! Happy jingling and fa-la-la-ing, happy snow dashing and gorgeous lighting, happy hot chocolate steaming and wiggling toes under the covers snuggling. And most importantly, HAPPY ALMOST END OF THE SEMESTER! Man, I love December. It’s like the Friday to all the months. After a long, hard year, December strolls along […]
Experimental Yogurt Soup
I have a confession to make: I hate yogurt. Never liked it, and no, frozen yogurt is no better – nothing can replace ice cream. You may want to keep this in mind as I tell you the rest of my unfortunate story. A few weeks ago, I stubbed my toe on an invisible crack […]
Clarinet, i like you now.
I was never a big fan of the clarinet. In high school, the clarinet players in my school put off an unattractive sound: it was either screechy or monotone. Then I came to Queens College and met my dear friend David Valbuena. From his participation in orchestra and Balkan ensemble I learned that the sound […]
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Anyone that has been diagnosed will tell you that there are three separate people residing in one person when one is told he or she has cancer. There is the you before you hear those words. That person is conscious of death but those who not seen death, and I mean really seen it, can […]
