This is a picture of me outside my house. To get to uni I walk 10 minutes to my right. Toon is another 10 minutes past that. All quite close, which I think is really important as it becomes colder. At the moment it's kind of National cold i.e. cold llama weather!
I started classes this week (at last!). I'm doing 5 subjects: Performance Practice - examining the theory of performance eg historical context and roles of performers; a dissertation of 12 000 - 16 000 words on a musical topic of my choice; Creative Project, which will be a one hour concert featuring me; and Research Methods in both Performance and Dissertation. I think I can link it all together and make it all related.
I've got a fantastic lecturer for the Performance subjects. He's very stimulating and a great facilitator. There are only 7 people in each of those classes, which is good.
The Creative Project is largely self-directed. Although I'm supposed to have lessons with Catriona. Unfortunately, I'm experiencing technical difficulties there; I can't just organise lessons directly with Catriona, I have to go through a 3rd person who hasn't responded to my emails. This sort beaurocratic problem seems to be fairly common over here.
I've received permission to do the Fiddle Band (brilliant again this week) and a folk singing group with Sandra Kerr (who is absolutely fantastic!!!!) although not for credit. It seems that performance doesn't feature quite as highly as I expected in this Performance course! I had to make a pest of myself to get into these classes. I was offered a further opportunity which I can't take up due to timetabling conflicts (and I don't really have that many classes).
Oh well, the things I am doing are really good, and I expect I'll be busy enough.
It sounds like the Sharon Shannon concert was a great night. There's a festival of Irish music on here for the next week or so. I'll let you know what I get to.
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