Saturday, October 27, 2012

Converse Traditions


Hello again everyone. This week's topic is traditions. Since it was 1889 week we were able to experience several Converse traditions. It was all good and fun, but I’m just looking forward to the Halloween party next week. I love Halloween because it’s an excuse to wear whatever I want and to eat as much chocolate as I can hold. I have a Halloween tradition of my own that I keep. Every year when it comes time to dress up, I make my own costume. I don’t go out and buy a box costume. I mean who wants to go a party just to find out that somebody has the same costume they do. Plus, have you priced costumes? They cost way too much. So, every Halloween I jar up whatever creativity I can muster and make the best costume I can. I have already made my costume for the party on Wednesday. I think this would be a cool tradition to start at Converse. My idea is that we should start a tradition that every year on Halloween we should make our own costumes and wear them the Halloween party. That way we can all show off our creativity and come up with our own costumes that express us! It doesn’t take a whole lot of work. If you’re proficient at sewing you can just but some things at Wal-Mart and put them together for your own unique design. You can also just take some old clothes that you don’t wear anymore and try to make something with those. Think of how much fun it would be to see what everyone came up with, instead of just seeing how much money they spent at party city. Now I’m not saying that it’s bad to go buy a costume, I’m just saying that it would be fun. You could learn a lot about a person based on what they created. Plus, as college students we’re all on a budget, and this is a great way to save some money. So that’s my idea for Converse’s next big tradition, see ya!

Sunday, October 14, 2012

What I want to do when I grow up

Hello everyone. This weeks topic is about what I want to do with my life. As a new college student have have heard this question a lot. I've thought about it, studied about it, prayed about it, and I think i know what I want to do. I want to be a high school band director. Now I know this probably seems weird to a lot of you. Why on earth would anyone want to try and teach a bunch of moody teenagers about music? When I first started high school this isn't what I wanted to do. I was in marching band all throughout high school, but honestly I was just there to be with my friends, to build up social skills. That all changed when I went to BOA. BOA stands for bands of America. It's a national marching bands competition. All the best bands in the country compete there. My junior year my band got the oppurtunity to compete. We didn't do very well, but we all agreed it was still the best competition we had ever been to. I heard and saw things I had never dreamed of. One thing I'll never forget was how one of the AAAAA bands did a Wizard of Oz show. They sounded beautiful. At the end they all rode out of the stadium on matching red bicycles, while playing. I don't know how they did it, but ot was amazing. I decided I had to come back. I decided that one day I would become a band director and bring my band to compete, maybe even win. That's a dream of mine. Of course, I have my doubts, especially after my first week as a music major. Even if I don't end up as a band director, I still want to go. Well, that's enough sappy talk out of me. Good-bye.