2011
So far, the new year has been great to me.
I got back to the Philippines on the new year. Great way to start the year fresh after a nice vacation. Now that Iโm back, Iโm finally settled into the new year after a month of stressful juggling of new things.
First off, I now have 25 students. I usually max out at 15 students, but now this is just insane! All the cracks of my schedule are filled, and I barely have any time to do any of the other things I love to do (for work and enjoyment), like recording and programming websites. I still have time actually when the weddings are slow, but surprisingly enough, even tough we added a pianist at World Bridal, my hands are still pretty full. I may finally have my first student recital too, since I have a good number of students.
In addition to having lots of students, I have also opened my other room for my friend Jean Ann Hu to teach flute. Sheโs fresh out of college, so Iโm excited that sheโs able to jump on this opportunity and help me out.
Another thing that Iโm really proud of is that Iโve started running! No more of this Wii-fit business (not that I didnโt enjoy it). Wii fit was great, but itโs time I graduated to some real exercise. Actually, Iโve always wanted to run, but the only convenient place really is UOG, and thatโs a 15 minute drive from my place. Now thereโs a pool near my house (just about 5 minutes away) and it has a nice .5 mile sidewalk surrounding its perimeter that a lot of people run on.
Anyway, Iโve been doing the C25k (Couch-to-5k) program, which is a 9 week program to get you to run a 5k nonstop. I started it since the new year, and now Iโm on week 6. Iโve been able to work up to running 20 minutes straight from only being able to run for about 60-90 seconds at a time. Talk about a milestone! I canโt wait to finish the program and try to tackle another 5k to see if I can run it in about 30 minutes.
I also have a few recording projects still open. I am still working on Freedom Friesโ recording as well as recording a new band called โFlyspeckโ (sp?). They have a pretty cool song coming out that you might hear on the radio soon! :)
Thatโs the year so far. Oh, and Iโm looking to start recording YouTube videos once again if someone is interested in helping me out. I have a nice video camera and editing software. I just wonder if someone out there is wanting to get into video editing and is interested in helping me out. I want to upload a video every week onto YouTube. Let me know if youโre interested.
Oh, and I may try to blog a bit more. Or maybe not. Who knows! Ciao.