I am Sof.

I wrote my U of T entrace test yesterday which consisted of rudiments and harmony. It wasn’t that hard, each person was given 3h to write it, and I finished the rudiments part in about 15min and spent the next hour or so on harmony - almost exclusively on four part writing. Who’d have thought they’d give you two minor keys? Geez. There was a lot of super confusing stuff in the rudiments part, like asking you to find the interval between a B double flat and a G flat. As I said, it wasn’t hard, but I’ve never written a test on rudiments at this level of difficulty. … and I hope I did help myself to save the $350 for a harmony course in the summer at UT.

Another thing I realized: if I do go study at UT for music, I probably won’t have any brown classmates, perhaps a few black ones; and I envision most of them will be white, and quite a number of Asians (especially Korean?) For my theory test, there were about 60 people and 90% of them were white. Oh my dear brown friends, I’ll miss you.

Next Saturday is my Western U audition; and I think I’ll just go with Tim and his father to save that $66 Via train ticket money (I can use that money to buy a pair of decent shoes for prom or something…) Tim told me that they might ask for studies instead of scales, that means I only have 1 week to pick up my black key etude. =S But we both agreed that it’s better to prepare a study than the scales. Heehee.

One of my students’ mom was really nice, she bought me a magazine all about prom. I’ve just realized how dressless I could be because there’re only about 3 dresses I like in that whole magazine. (it’s thicker than usual magazines) A lot of the dresses make girls look like mermaids: no real curves but just big hips and slim bottoms. I really should go check out the stores on Queen St.. Oh and if anyone wanna borrow that magazine, let me know.

Only 3 more rehearsals for Rhapsody. I’m trying to memorize the piece by tomorrow for the rehearsal. I hope I won’t get brain cramps.