Class reflection

So honestly I believe that this class was an complete and utter waste of my time and energy. I feel like learned nothing. I'm sad to say the only person in class that seemed excited to be there was you prof. Wright. I'm sure that Wartburg had great intentions when they created this thing called IS 101, but I just don't think it's working out the way they planned. No one feels that the class is needed. They would much rather focus on their other major classes, so people will do poorly and not worry about it until the end of the semester when it is already to late. As I have said before there are more important things 2 me than sitting in IS 101 for and hour and 5 min. I'm sorry if u disagree prof. Wright, but my jury is slightly more important than watching Andromeda Srain (a book I didn't even read). Jury is a pass fail. If u fail u get one more chance, and if u fail again u get kicked out of your major. I think the fact that I even had the chance to have a makeup lesson was awesome, so I was going to jump at that chance. It was the only time that would have possibly worked so I took it without hesitation. I'm sorry if I offended u, but music is my life, and I need to focus on my life over watching a movie that I didn't even read the book on.
Katie Zimmer lol :) :(

PS ALL MY BLOGS ARE DONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Speeding Ticket/ Court

So toward the end of Opera Workshop we started having more and more rehearsals. One was right after church on a Sunday afternoon, but me and my roomaet Bekah went to church in Waterloo that day, so we were speedin epically to make it back in time for rehearsal. We got pulled over in Janesville, where else, and I got a ticket and there was a court date written on it. I asked the officer if I paid the ticket if I still had to go to court because I didn't think I did, but he said yes I did still have to go. So I paid the ticket the next day, and just waited around for the court date. Today was the court date. My parents came out last night even though I told them they didn't have to. We get to the court house this morning and they tell me I'm not on the list and that my ticket has been paid in full. Well of sourse it was paid in full, I paid it. She said everything was all taken care of, and that I didn't even need to be there. My parents drove all the way up from Des Moines last night and spent the night in a hotel just to not have court and drive back today. They were very pleased to say the least lol. You would think as many people as the Janesville cops pull over they would know how the system works by now, but I guess it's to much to ask of a person to do their job the correct way.
Katie Zimmer lol :)

Boys!!!!

U know what, I just decide boys are generally useless creatures when you are in school. They are stupid, mess up your priorities, and make you do stupid things to. I have very little first hand experience with this, but from watching my friends make mistakes makes me believe this even more every day. College guys don't want relationships they just want one thing... but idk what it is no one will tell me (enchanted reference). The guys that do want relationships are just creepers. This I do have first hand experience with. As I stated in my previous blog "My not so restful Fall Break." Guys either want no commitment or an extremely fast full on commitment. Can't there be a happy medium. Can't you date a nice guy that doesn't just want sex without him trying to control your every move and telling you he loves you and wants to marry u? I think mama Rose is right when she tells me that the practice room is my boyfriend. You can even have a dinner date if you bring in a meal transfer for dinner. lol NO BOYS FOR ME!!!!!!!
4 now....
Katie Zimmer lol :)

Paper/ Presentation

The paper was really easy for me, but the powwerpoint I was really confused about what to do. There is so much to cover in 5 min. What do I narrow it down to. I feel like if I tried to include a little bit of everything I would be dumming it down WWWWWWAAAAAAAYYYYYY 2 much. I finally decided that I would just pick one main topic, and just present on that. I included all of the topics in my paper, so I made the sacrifice for the presentation. I'm not going to tell you what my topic ended up being, it's going to be a surprise. lol I just have to say once again that I love snow days!!!!! Thank you Wartburg College for cancelling morning classes for the first time ever, and thank u Prof. Wright and Prof. Hoegsberg for cancelling IS and German so that I could get my homework done
Katie Zimmer lol :)

Finals

Thabk the Lord for snow days!!!!! That is all I have to say about life today. I would not have gotten my German final oral evaluation done and possibly not my IS paper/ presentation done had it not been for that snow day. Thanks to CWW I had no time to do anything for a week straight. We had 5 bags of garbage sitting in our dorm room thats how bad it got. I met up with my German group and we wrote our whole oral evalutation that day, and I started my IS paper. Now my oral evaluation is today instead of it being Wednesday, and my IS presentation isn't until the final period. HOORAY! Last night I finished all my online quizes for German and the rest of the workbook. Today I woke up and finished my paper for IS. Now i'm blogging like mad to get them all done. I have soooo many finals to studay for it's rediculous, but after toady it will get a lot better. I get German all out of the way. My IS is done except the actual presentation. Now all I have to do is study for my Diction and Music Thoery finals, and practice for my piano proficiency test and voice jury. Nothing big right ;) it's just my major lol
Katie Zimmer lol :)

2nd Semester and Next Year

Sunday night was Pastor T's last night with us. She was Dr. J's substitute while she was on sabattical, but she will be back 2nd semester. I have mixed emotins about all of this. I love Pastor T and I hate to see her go, but I love Dr. J too. She was one of the first people I ever met at Wartburg, and the main reason I wanted to be in Castle Singers this year. I love Castle Singers, and I want to stay in it, but I also feel like Wartburg choir is more my style of music. I was debating during CWW whether or not to go to Wartburg Choir next year, and I thought for sure I was going to until I heard some of the Castle Singers talking badly about Wartburg Choir. There were apparently two girls who were in CS that moved to WC this year and no one talks to them anymore. I don't understand why it needs to be that way. Some people are just meant to sing certain types of music. Now I don't know what to do. I want to remain friends with the CS's but I also really think WC is more my style of music for the most part. I'm going to talk to Dr. J when she gets back and Dr. Nelson also and their perspective.
AHHHHHHHHHH why is choir so catty. This why i'm a solo performer lol
Katie Zimmer :)

CWW

First rehearsal was really long and boring, but it should get better. I worked 3- 7 and we had rehearsal 7:15- 10. Please shoot me. We jsut sat there for at least an hour of it. The next night it started coming together much better. We actually started getting out in the auditorium and running the songs where they would actually be sung. Tuesday's rehearsal was seperated by choir. Each choir had their own rehearsal for an hour and a half, and then we ahd an hour mass rehearsal to reinforce what we had done the night before. Wednesday was our first "performance." There were about 60 potential music majors and their familes in the audience for our first really rough run through. It went really well actually. We didn't have to stop at all because of a trainwreck. Thursday we started to get the hang of it and it was a good thing to because we had close to 200 people in the audience there. The transistions started to become more seamless and flowing into one another better. Friday was our first performance that required a ticket to get in. We had a full house, and it went really well. All the choirs and the band knew what to do when except for one thing. We were still a little off when it came to knowing who had to stand and sit when. It was really long show, and they expected us to memorize it in 3 days. I don't think so! Saturday we went to Lutheran Church of Hope in Des Moines. Again a full house, but one problem. We have never sung there before, so we had no plan for getting on and off stage. We had to have a 3 hour rehearsal that afternoon just to make sure we know where to go, and still perform the whole show 2 hours later. My voice was shot by saturday night. OH NO we still have two more performances Sunday. Sunday afternoon wasn't a huge crown, but Sunday night was. The show went surprisingly well for everyone being so tired and vocally dead. Everything sounded a little under pitch because of it, but not enough for anyone but us to notice.
All in all it was a WONDERFUL experience for my first CWW.
Katie Zimmer lol :)

Next

So I have bben so busy I forgot to start reading my book. I sat down and read 275 pages in one night. It is very interesting even though most of it could never happen at this point in time anyway. I wrote a lot about this in my final paper, but I guess I can talk about it again. Transgenesis is possible, and it happens all the time, but not even close to what they explain in the book. In the book there is an orangutan that swears in different languages, a parrot that does math, and a half man half chimpanzee. The extent of transgenesis at this point is implanting a few genes form one species into an embryo of another species for experimentation puropses. Gene patenting in the book was a little extreme even though they do occur. People can patent genes to prevent people from stealing the credit for any discoveries from them. In the book there are companies litterally feuding over patenting genes. I'm sure this happens to some extent, but not people committing suicide so they wouldn't get caught stealing research from another companies patented gene. The ethical paroblems in this book are enormous. People creating all kinds of unneeded animals just to see if they can. There needs to be reason you do anything in science, and I couldn't find any for any of the experiments that were done in this novel
Katie Zimmer lol :)

Debate

Well debate day was fun! People seemed to know what they were talking about, but only what they had prepared. When they got asked a question that they hadn't prepared for they had no idea how to respond. Mt. Kilomanjaro for example.... and who ate the last frog.... or the poor polar bears having to swim around to find ice.... I think people took the argumentation part a little too seriously. They seemed to put the fun argumentative part ahead of the facts of matter at hand. No one made any headway in their side breaking out for the win. In the end both groups thought they won, which really shouldn't happen if a debate is executed correctly. There should be a clear winner, or at least a slight winner, but it was a complete draw. It was a fun day, but it accomplished nothing, and didn't teach anything. Sad Day :(
Katie Zimmer lol :)