I’m so excited. I get to go to Bloomington, Indiana to the world’s largest harp department to learn harp. I get to have a 1-hour master class and a 45-minute private lesson.

A master class is a group class where you would have a couple people play and then the teacher would correct anything wrong then have the rest of the class comment on it. Except in this case we’re only allowed to say nice things about what they played. So I guess that that’s a good thing.

Well we’ll see how it goes.

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Ok well I started this entry before I went but I went last night and so this is what happened…

 I went to the school of music not knowing quit what to think, and I got there pretty early and there were two other students already there, one a girl about my age and a boy a little older than me. We waited for about 15 minutes and in the mean time all the other students had shown up, then at last the teacher came. We went inside the classroom and sat down. Then the teacher handed out these chocolate covered wafers and chocolate chip cookies. Mmmm! Chocolate! Then our teacher had two girls about my age come up and play, and it turns out that they’re going to Paris for a harp competition. Not Paris, Illinois, Paris, France! Well when they started to play and the first thing I thought was that I have a lot of work to do. These girls were amazing! Before I went there I thought I actually was pretty good, but that turned out completely wrong.

 But I do think that I can get a lot out of it even though it is a little discouraging.