The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

Letteyeti

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Heck, I was sure I wanted to be a music teacher. I had always thought I'd be a teacher and by the time I was in Junior High, singing was what I was good at and what I loved and that was my career path. I wasn't sure if I wanted to teach music or perform until 8th grade, I think? The band teacher at the time told me if I wasn't sure, I should go with education, because performers don't need a degree to perform, but once they got the degree, that's all they could do, unless they got a doctorate. At least if you got your education degree, you could teach if you couldn't make a living on performance.

I went to college, got my music ed degree, taught for 1 year and hated it. I have no classroom management skills and I came in as a substitute for another teacher who had major surgery and I was the only music qualified sub in the district. So I subbed for her for over a month, then when her husband was transferred to another state, I took over her contract so she could go with him right away instead of finishing out the year. But the kids knew me as "the sub" and didn't see me as their teacher and it was just not a good situation. I was so glad when the year was over.

There's no guarantee that you will love what you chose, even if you thought you knew what you wanted. Better to change your mind before you've paid for an entire degree's worth of college. And now here's me living in a foreign country doing absolutely nothing with my degree and instead working in a warehouse doing "unskilled labor". I certainly don't regret going to college, but I rather wish I had chosen something a bit more mainstream that I could have had more options with. Singing will always be a hobby for me, not a career.
That is me with dance. I've been doing it since I was 6 years old and I love it. I have decided I would not go to college for Dance Performance because it is so hard to get a job in that. If I do take anything related to dance it would be in education. My parents however don't really like the idea much at all.
 

Letteyeti

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Have you read the Percy Jackson series? If you like fantasy, that might be a good one. I'm a HUGE Harry Potter fan, and Twilight, but I know those are both controversial and not everyone likes them. The Hunger Games was really good, too.
I would start out with something not too long, but a series is good because if you get invested in it, there's more where it came from, and if you don't, you can stop after one book. You said you liked Little Women, but did you read Little Men and Jo's Boys? They are sequels of Little Women.

Another fantasy series you might like is the Gemma Doyle series by Libba Bray. It's got some mythology in it, it's historical fiction tied in with fantasy.

Edit to add:
My daughter is really enjoying John Green books, and she liked This is Where It Ends by Marieke Neikamp, though it's very sad. My daughter just turned 14, so closer to your age than I am. Oh, and C.S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia.
The Percy Jackson books are awesome. So much better than the two movies. I also love the Harry Potter books and have read the Twilight and Hunger Games books as well. I have also read the Divergent series which was good. I haven't read Little Men or Jo's Boys though by Louisa May Alcott. That might be something to look into.

I also haven't read Gemma Doyle by Libby Bray. I do tend to enjoy fantasy books so this might work for me.

The Chronicles of Narnia books are fantastic. I loved them.
 

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
No
With something that awesome I would never take it out. You must be an awesome singer?
I'm pretty good. I did chorus for many years, including all county when I was in middle school, and after I did World of Color, I was in chorus in college, did some master classes, did some solos, and actually sang my college's alma mater solo at my graduation. But like @Songbird76 , it's my hobby, not my career. I've never been quite sure why they picked me for World of Color. I was 18 at the time, which is the youngest you could be to submit a video. The way you did it was you learned your part at home, recorded your video with the conductor, and submitted. They were only going to take 500 videos. I think they got 1500 submissions, including 500 submissions just for Soprano, which was my voice part. I think they only took 150 sopranos in the initial round, including mine. They ended up adding more and they did a video later where they used everyone's.

I beat out professional singers, such as music teachers. I think it was 50% talent and 50% "who did what we asked". You were supposed to record using a dark background, your mic couldn't be visible, and you were supposed to wear a bright colored shirt. You also needed to be precise with the conductor. I did all of the above, and I'm an instrumentalist (I played violin with an orchestra in middle and high school, and I play piano, classically trained) so I was absolutely on beat at all times and didn't embellish.

Anyway, I'm still proud of myself, which is why that's never, ever coming down.
 

MySmallWorldof4

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Well, good luck to her! Is that what she wants? Center flyer? I'm assuming there are more flyers than just Center? (I actually don't know what a center flyer is or how that differs from any other flyer. We were the "ground bound" squad that we weren't actually supposed to do stunts above waist height because we didn't have a qualified coach to teach us, so a lot of the terminology is lost on me.) I'm just happy for her that she finally gets to go back in the gym and start practicing with other kids! I'm sure that's different than the private lessons.
If there are more than 2 flyers, the center flyer would be in the middle of a stunt sequence. It is supposedly a coveted position in cheer. I know she just wants to be a flyer, but what will be will be. She is back to talking and watching everything cheer now which she hadn't been doing. She currently is watching every routine from the last two years she was in and critiquing them. I am glad she is happy.
 

MySmallWorldof4

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It is!!! He’s going back today with a neighbor’s family/friend. Friends had told me that they will bring him often if we joined, Ive never wanted to do it because it just doesn’t make sense with my job/commute and having Cedar Fair passes, and Soak City has a great pool. But if people will bring him at least 1x per week, and I can go once per week, then it should be worth the price. I didn’t renew our Zoo this past year, and I’m not renewing our museum membership this year, there’s just not enough time for it all these days. No bike/bike rack for me this summer now, though. It was one or the other between bike/rack or swim club. Maybe cheaper ones will come in stock before summer’s end.
Our town pool will not be opening. Stinks because they put in a lazy river last year.
 

Figgy1

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Got three cats here. One is under 3 pounds, one is 9 pounds, and one is 16 pounds. So, I'm willing to consider wagering that I might have both the heaviest and lightest cats around these parts.

The 3 pounder is an 18 year old long hair. She's never been more than 4 pounds and at times was right at 2 pounds. Not nearly as small as you'd think. She's also totally deaf and starting to have vision issues, but amazingly still has a lot of energy and loves to chase shadows and self-pet on my feet.

The other two are from the same litter and are somewhat inseparable. The 9 pounder was the runt of the litter. She's extremely curious and very skittish. The 16 pounder is... well, unique. She's our daughter's cat more than the others and will sit with her at any time and anywhere. Lies on her back and lets just about anyone rub her stomach.

And now you know the whole family. :)
I'm putting money on you don't have the heaviest;)
 

Letteyeti

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I'm pretty good. I did chorus for many years, including all county when I was in middle school, and after I did World of Color, I was in chorus in college, did some master classes, did some solos, and actually sang my college's alma mater solo at my graduation. But like @Songbird76 , it's my hobby, not my career. I've never been quite sure why they picked me for World of Color. I was 18 at the time, which is the youngest you could be to submit a video. The way you did it was you learned your part at home, recorded your video with the conductor, and submitted. They were only going to take 500 videos. I think they got 1500 submissions, including 500 submissions just for Soprano, which was my voice part. I think they only took 150 sopranos in the initial round, including mine. They ended up adding more and they did a video later where they used everyone's.

I beat out professional singers, such as music teachers. I think it was 50% talent and 50% "who did what we asked". You were supposed to record using a dark background, your mic couldn't be visible, and you were supposed to wear a bright colored shirt. You also needed to be precise with the conductor. I did all of the above, and I'm an instrumentalist (I played violin with an orchestra in middle and high school, and I play piano, classically trained) so I was absolutely on beat at all times and didn't embellish.

Anyway, I'm still proud of myself, which is why that's never, ever coming down.
@StarWarsGirl you should be sooooo proud of yourself. That is something you can tell your kids and grandkids. I am also in the choir at school, but really I chose it to get the credit more than anything. I can hold a tune and I don't sound awful or anything, but I don't have a strong voice at all. I am an alto. It is actually one of the classes I do enjoy and I do like the Holiday and Spring performances we do even though we didn't have the Spring one this past year.
 

Figgy1

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Well, she is having fun with it, and she's not doing it for any requirement....nothing to lose if it doesn't go well. It's just for fun. But that's E...she's a complete nerd and loves to learn. I think if we lived in the states, she'd have done really well in a homeschool environment. How does James study Japanese? Is it expensive to do an online class?
James' class isn't bad at all. Year 3 starts in September:joyfull:
 

Figgy1

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So since everyone is coming clean about senior skip day....A few of the girls and I decided to skip out early and go to lunch. ( none of us told our parents about senior skip day so we all showed up at school) When we got back to school to go home, the principal called us to the office. He gave us a lecture on leaving school. Apparently, at our school senior skip day wasn’t a thing on your last day. Everyone else did it.🤔🤣
Am I the only one who went to a school where it was not counted as skipping?
 

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