More Traditions???

Here at Converse there are already many traditions in place.  There are probably some that I don't even know about yet.  I enjoy Converse's many traditions probably because my family has a ton of traditions...from "Santa" visiting my grandomother's on Christmas morning (generally the youngest adult male in the family, which right now is my fiancee Brandon(: ), to celebrating Passover, to playing Bible trivia on Christmas Eve (guys vs. girls of course).  I LOVE traditions!!!  I found it really difficult to think of a new tradition to have here at Converse.

In order to help me think of a new tradition for Converse, I thought about traditions that we had at our high school.  We did not have that many "traditions," but there were many events that frequently occured.  My favorite, was our collaborative planning on the first Wednesday of every month.  All of the teachers in each department would "collaborate" for half of the school day and the students would come into school late that day.  I know that in college, we do not have the time to take a day off every month, but some occasional breaks besides holidays would be nice.  I was trying to figure out something that does not occur every month so that we would not have as much time off.  I came up with cancelling classes on the 31st of every month.  This would only happen 4 times during our school year.  If the 31st fell on the weekend, classes would be cancelled on either Friday or Monday.

I really miss all of the in-service and collaborative planning days that we had in high school because they would break up the time in between actual holidays (Thanksgiving, Spring Break etc.).  Sometimes, we would go for over a month without having a five day school week...which was pretty awesome.

I do understand that we cannot have the luxury of taking a lot of holidays, but a few more would be great just to have a break once in a while.

What The Future Holds...

I am so excited for that day in about four years when i have graduated and am a Board Certified Music Therapist. Yay!

My dream career would be working as a music therapist.  I am not quite sure which type patient group I would like to work with, but as of right now, I am leaning toward working in a hospital.  I would definitely be working in the Columbia area.  I don't think that my salary would be a big deal to me if I were doing what I wanted to do.  The middle class would where I would like for my family as a whole to be economically.  To help prepare me for this career, I am putting forth s lot of effort and work into all of my classes.  I try to expose myself to as much music therapy knowledge as I can.  And I am (and will have to continue to) work on my patience, as that will be crucial in music therapy.

Of course I would be doing all of this with my husband, Brandon by my side.  (Hopefully, there won't be any little ones in the picture at this point. :/  ) And that right there could be a setback in my planned out future.  Having kids in college...probably not the best idea, and also not in the plan.  But at the same time, I think that being settled down younger has its advantages.  I know that for me personally, Brandon is one of my two biggest inspirations, and he is always there for me.  I think it will benefit me to be married to him as I am starting my career.  

Right now, my star gazing dream is my wedding.  It's only 230 days away!  I can't wait for my new life and what it has in store for me.  I know that I will be so happy with it.  I could write a whole dissertation on my wedding, but I won't do that tonight.

Anyways...in five years from now I hope to be a great music therapist, a wonderful wife, and a good friend.