new school!

Okay, so I learned that when I get really nervous, I get a serious zombified hitch in my step. As my new friend Laura (a student at my new school in the opera major) tells me, "It's no big deal. You just drag your right foot and walk slow."

[Yes, I have managed to make a friend, perhaps only for the reason that her brother is DB. Hurray for connections, right?]

Anyway, this new school is amazing. They're very friendly to the zombie teen, actually. All the students and faculty are super open-minded. There's no real dress code (more like a shared conscience of how not to go over the top), everyone is really laid-back, and no one bombarded me with annoying questions. Well, okay, a few did, but mostly people were pretty cool.

That didn't stop me from being a walking mass of nerves when I entered on Monday morning. I was wearing one of my new outifts--a long brown skirt, dark brown boots, and a cream-colored peasant (ish) blouse--so that helped my confidence a bit, but I was a mess. It died down, eventually, when I realized no one was going to try to re-kill me.

I love my classes. Besides the normal stuff--science, English (which is pretty much just literature and poetry, a great course), math--I'm taking a course in ethics (which serves as a history credit) and the rest of my classes focus on music. Music Composition (for the exam, we have to compose a song for our instrument), Musical Theory, and of course there's the class in which I simply play violin with the others. So far--and it's only been a couple of days--I could see myself spending the rest of my school days here.

I have made new friends--I mentioned Laura (last name Lomene), and there's also "Frog," real name Zach--he's here for his amazing violin skills as well--and then Criss, a girl who takes pride in the fact that she is in no way girly.

But I have to go, because the bell is about to ring... off to my ethics class!