This past weekend was quite the weekend, I felt like I was constantly moving and never really had time to rest and enjoy the weekend.
On Friday I signed the lease to my new apartment which will be the last place I will live before I am MARRIED!!! Elaine took off early and helped me move some small things into my new place, which I am sharing with two other guys that I have never met before in my entire life. For those of you who don't know me, I haven't had great experiences with living with people I don't know so this is a big step for me. I've lived in the place for 3 days and I've moved furniture approximately 4 times.
I've been participating in a 6 week boot camp at Anytime Fitness that completely exhausts me every time I go. Before school started I was going 8 times a week and burning approximately 1000 calories each work, the work outs are only one hour long. On Saturday they hosted the boot camp challenge, this was an opportunity for us to join a team and compete with other teams on various challenges. I am very proud of my team of four, we won two of the four events one of which consisted of flipping a 190 pound tire approximately 50 yards. GO TEAM!!!!
Following boot camp I had to rush home and get ready for my final choir audition at UofL. I get really nervous for all my auditions and typically it shows really bad in the audition. This audition was just like all the others, so nervous I rush the music and can't remember the words. Needless to say I am happy it's over with.
In order to calm my nerves Elaine treated me to ice cream at Berry Twist, only the greatest ice cream place in Floyd Knobs. While it was really good all I could think about was how long I would have to run in order to work off the deliciousness.... the run still hasn't happened.
I look forward to the third Sunday of August every year... THE SCHMIDT FAMILY REUNION AND VOLLEYBALL TOURNEY!! Each year at the reunion Team Corny and Team Francis battle it out on the court. This year we recruited one of our other cousins which made the team name change to Team CORNVINCE. Vincent was one of my grandpas other brothers. I don't think our team has won EVER but at least we have a really good time. This year team Cornvince decided to intimidate team Francis by sending out my my mom, and a couple of my aunts, I don't think the other team expected them to step out onto the court and actually want to play. We were pleasantly surprised at how good they were. Prior to walking on to the court my aunt looked at us and said, "if it has anything to do with a ball I'm out". That makes you feel really good!! To tell you how committed they were they were talking smack and my mom even dove for a ball.. thats commitment. I have a video that I will post shortly.
I wrapped up the weekend by hosting a cookout at UofL for all of the new freshman music therapy students. I have to thank all of the officers that helped and all of the students that came out and socialized.
WHAT A WEEKEND!!!
Monday, August 20, 2012
Monday, August 13, 2012
Wrapping up the summer....
I've been thinking really hard about writing another blog and every time I sit down to write I get distracted or I can't think of what to write about. I promise this time I will get through an entire post before leaving my computer, Elaine will appreciate this because every time I start a blog it show up on our dashboard and she constantly bugs me to finish so she can read the whole thing.
I must say it has been one busy and long summer for both Elaine and I. Elaine is less than two days away from starting her student teaching and I am less than a week away from starting my senior year at UofL. I remember sophomore years staying up until the wee hours of the morning talking to Elaine about how it seems like forever until graduation and real jobs. Now were both wondering where all that time has gone and we're asking the big question, what next? What we do know for sure is that we are getting married on June 22, 2013 and we will be gone the following week for a honey moon but after that we have no idea what we are doing, besides being MARRIED!! It's exactly 313 days away.
This semester I will be doing music therapy clinical work at Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville. I have been waiting for this clinical every since I started at UofL only because I have always thought I wanted to do medical music therapy. A normal clinical placement at UofL lasts one semester but this clinical will last the entire year which will run me up until I start my internship. I am hoping that after this year I will have a better understanding of what populations I want to serve.
Elaine will be starting her student teaching at Cedar Hall Community School in Evansville, teaching a class full of 30 fifth graders. Sometime I think I am more excited than her about her student teaching. Today she had to explain to me that it was more of a nervous excited feeling. I have to admit I would probably be really nervous myself if I was going to be standing up in front of a class full of 30 fifth graders. As much as she likes to doubt herself I know for a FACT that she is going to be a great teacher and she is going to have some very lucky students. For more detail about her student teaching check out her blog "Teaching to learn and learning to teach".
While Elaine and I were both very busy this summer we made the time to spend some time with each other and with our AWESOME friends. As many people know I have been slowly starting a photography business and this summer Elaine was the greatest help a photographer could ask for, I like to tell her that she is my mean assistant that constantly tells people to sit up straight and to smile. We have taken senior pictures, family pictures, maternity pictures, and this coming weekend we will be shooting our first wedding.
Last week we did maternity pictures for my cousin Nick and his wife Kaitlyn. Growing up Nick was like the brother I never had and many can testify that when the two of us were together someone was bound to get hurt and that someone wasn't either of us. In May he married the love of his life and now in less than a month we will be welcoming Ms. Norah Jane Cherry into the family. I am more than excited for both of them and I know that they are going to be great parents.
Now that I jumped all around and rambled I would like to close with a thought that I learned this past weekend while attending church at Greenville Christian with Elaine. I am constantly questioning the journey that God has planned for me and I spend a lot of time trying to take detours and living a life that I hope to live and not a life that God has planned for me to live. I tend to allow others to pull me down and more importantly I allow myself to pull me down. This week I pray that I will start the journey that God has planned for me and pray that I will take the time to listen and trust the God that loves me more that I can imagine.
"MY CHAINS ARE GONE AND GOD WILL SET ME FREE"
I must say it has been one busy and long summer for both Elaine and I. Elaine is less than two days away from starting her student teaching and I am less than a week away from starting my senior year at UofL. I remember sophomore years staying up until the wee hours of the morning talking to Elaine about how it seems like forever until graduation and real jobs. Now were both wondering where all that time has gone and we're asking the big question, what next? What we do know for sure is that we are getting married on June 22, 2013 and we will be gone the following week for a honey moon but after that we have no idea what we are doing, besides being MARRIED!! It's exactly 313 days away.
This semester I will be doing music therapy clinical work at Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville. I have been waiting for this clinical every since I started at UofL only because I have always thought I wanted to do medical music therapy. A normal clinical placement at UofL lasts one semester but this clinical will last the entire year which will run me up until I start my internship. I am hoping that after this year I will have a better understanding of what populations I want to serve.
Elaine will be starting her student teaching at Cedar Hall Community School in Evansville, teaching a class full of 30 fifth graders. Sometime I think I am more excited than her about her student teaching. Today she had to explain to me that it was more of a nervous excited feeling. I have to admit I would probably be really nervous myself if I was going to be standing up in front of a class full of 30 fifth graders. As much as she likes to doubt herself I know for a FACT that she is going to be a great teacher and she is going to have some very lucky students. For more detail about her student teaching check out her blog "Teaching to learn and learning to teach".
While Elaine and I were both very busy this summer we made the time to spend some time with each other and with our AWESOME friends. As many people know I have been slowly starting a photography business and this summer Elaine was the greatest help a photographer could ask for, I like to tell her that she is my mean assistant that constantly tells people to sit up straight and to smile. We have taken senior pictures, family pictures, maternity pictures, and this coming weekend we will be shooting our first wedding.
Last week we did maternity pictures for my cousin Nick and his wife Kaitlyn. Growing up Nick was like the brother I never had and many can testify that when the two of us were together someone was bound to get hurt and that someone wasn't either of us. In May he married the love of his life and now in less than a month we will be welcoming Ms. Norah Jane Cherry into the family. I am more than excited for both of them and I know that they are going to be great parents.
Now that I jumped all around and rambled I would like to close with a thought that I learned this past weekend while attending church at Greenville Christian with Elaine. I am constantly questioning the journey that God has planned for me and I spend a lot of time trying to take detours and living a life that I hope to live and not a life that God has planned for me to live. I tend to allow others to pull me down and more importantly I allow myself to pull me down. This week I pray that I will start the journey that God has planned for me and pray that I will take the time to listen and trust the God that loves me more that I can imagine.
"MY CHAINS ARE GONE AND GOD WILL SET ME FREE"
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