Another Winters Morning 22/7/11

Today is truly a good day. We have now made it past enrollment and orientation. While your probably thinking “What is so hard about those two?”, I can easily say that the last two days were some of the most challenging I have ever had. Acclimating to this new system and new culture has left me a bit unbalanced to say the least. More than this was the stress and fear behind finding out I needed to audition with an instrument to be able to study production. I can now tell you there are few things in life more terrifying then a group of professional and semi professional drummers picking apart your every move as you attempt to play songs you don’t know. When I got up from the drum throne I was literally shaking from my stress. I walked away from that room thinking I did awful and that I might not make it in the program, but to my surprise I actually received a good review!

The weather here has been rather dreary as Sydney is getting the most rain it has in 23 years. Luckily, the college has been able to help provide shuttle home at nights so we don’t have to make 2 long walks in the rain. As of Tuesday we start our intensives, which are 2 weeks of intro classes going from 8am-5pm. Hopefully all goes well and I get on board with how everything works here.