Well, almost. This is the sixth and final week of Summer Session 1 and I start SS2 on Monday. I did wind up giving my Jazz class to Kerry Mehling who teaches Ballet this session and who teaches Jazz and Modern during the school year. My body continues to feel the strain of dance 4 days a week, but luckily it's gradually less and less.
The students are doing well, but I see the stress of their final project. It looks as if I needed to give them more time throughout the session. I may abandon the movies and other videos and give them more time for poetry and their final music video. I wonder if I needed to show them examples.
Our final showing is on Thursday and I created Facebook events for each class. Only my first class has sent invites out to their friends. The second class has not done it at all. This surprised me because my second class was so excited about the idea of a public showing and my first class was not.
What else is new?
On Sunday I took the train in to San Francisco with Tony to do some exploring. He was in town for Randy's birthday and since I hadn't done the train thing, I thought it would be less scary to do it with a friend. There's not a train that goes directly into the city, so you have to transfer from Amtrak to BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit). When we left Davis it was a bright and sunny 75 degrees. When we got into Richmond to make the transfer it was a windy 55. I was not happy. We ate dim sum in Chinatown, then walked through North Beach to the Wharf and got a little sample of Ghiradelli. From there we walked back to the other side of town -- I honestly don't know where we were -- and climbed one of the steepest hills ever. After a burger in the Civic Center area, we hopped on BART and then went our separate ways. As I arrived at the Richmond Station, I saw the Amtrak leave the station. That meant that I had to wait over an hour for another train. And the area is not the best. There was NO ONE around and I was finally accosted by a few pan handlers. I gave up my burger left overs and wrote in my comedy journal until I got too freaked out to be cool. Gradually the platform started to fill so I put on my ipod and grooved around.
I finally got home to Davis at 8:30PM. I was hungry and tired and needed a hot shower.
Last night I went to the quad to see one of the free music events the Mondavi presents. Del Castillo out of Austin, TX. I went by myself since Chad had something come up at work. I stayed for about 50 minutes and when it got chilly and I got lonely I went home.
Tonight I will be getting together with Wyatt to go over music for the band. I need to listen to the music again and feel some of these harmonies. His music reminds me of The Goodies. Remember them?
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