MUSIC

Some of you might know, others of you not. So two weeks ago I was planning on majoring in Music. Music, music ed., anything in music. Then I had a conversation with my band director and he made me aware of other options and such.... told me what he thinks of everything related to any of that stuff. It was a nice conversation, but made me think lots and lots.
But that's not what I'm really here to talk about.
Recently I officially decided to major in biology instead of music. I'm going to minor in music instead. I really liked this decision and blah blah.... I plan to go to Towson for a year or two then transferring to John Hopkins.
So, yesterday during Flex I went down to the band room and told my band director, Mr. Drake, that I have made this decision of minoring. He was very happy for me. He asked what I was going to major in, I said biology. I told him that after a year or two at Towson I want to go to Hopkins, if I can get the grades. He said that I will, because I work hard... or something like that. It made me feel special. xD Haha. But yeah.... he said he really thinks I should minor in music.
I told him I would get the music he lent me for auditions back to him soon, he told me to hold on to them. I'll need them at some point another or... something. And it's really fun to play.

Then today I went after the end of third mod/the begining of lunch to get music from him for Shannon. As he was making a copy of the music he started the conversation back up with me. He wanted me to be sure that he thinks it's a great idea for me to minor in music. That he knows I'm serious about it and going further into is really the thing for me to do with how much I care and the potential I show, but I'm just not at a major-in-music level. He said he fully believes that in the near future things will really begin fitting together even more, but the one thing that I need to get better and to fix little things is a private teacher, but that's not something I have right now or will be able to have really anytime soon, and he knows that. Dumb money. But yeah... he said that after being so enthusiastic about me telling him i was going to minor in music he thought back and decided he should make sure I knew that he wasn't glad about my decision because he didn't think I was or could be good enough but because he thought well... I already said basically what he thinks. He talked about how being around the really good players at Towson, just being around them, will help me be able to improve tons. Then, when I go to Hopkins minoring in music I'll probably play side by side with the AMAZING musicians at peabody which could make me even better. Something I can't have here. Perry is really good, but still finding his own way. Drake said even Ellett (A really really amazing trumpet player who graduated a few years ago) wouldn't have given that (when he was in high school.) Also, Biology is something that will provide a more stable life, as far as money goes. And I can always go to graduate school to get a masters in music, so I will still be able to become a professional musician with this option. At some point I mentioned McDaniel and really all he said about that is that Rachel works there. Of course I know who she is, her last name is something like Zefner but I have no idea if that's spelled right. She's an amazing player and an amazing teacher. He told me that she is the one who teaches Sam something or another from Century HS... then, in case I didn't know who she was, clarified that she is the 1st chair all county trumpet player. (she was last year, too. And she's in Peabody Youth Orchestra, and she was in Jr. All State her freshman year.... haha Perry and I met her at the all county auditions) I pointed out that Luke goes to her. He also said that's who he is going to send Zach (his private student- he is in 8th grade right now) to next year because he can't private teach kids from his school. Apparently if I went up to him right now and asked about teachers he would immediately give me her information. This is all unimportant, but yeah.... that's what happened. It was cool....

Then i ended the conversation telling him that Perry was going to kill me for saying anything but he's been mopy and hating band and wanting to give up because he feels like he sucks and isn't getting any better and feels bad about everything. I told him I told Perry to talk to him but he wouldn't so yeah. He thanked me for bringing it to my attention. Haha. During lunch I told Perry that I told Drake. I knew he would be mad... he was.... they had a nice talk at the beginning of band though. Apparently, in this conversation, Drake told Perry not to be mad at me for telling. Hahaha.

Yupp, that's it. I'm excited.

What I'm not excited for is how hard it is to talk to People the minimal amount possible. Especially when he taunts me from across a crowded band room.