BYU-Hawaii Graduate April 2010

I am now a graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music.

I have been soooo blessed. Education, Family, and the Gospel of Jesus Chirst,

What more could I ask for?

Senior Recital

My Senior Recital went really well. I played 7 pieces altogether. I was able to play the Trumpet (Bb and C), a Flugelhorn, the Double Second Steel Pans, as well as sing for my original composition. Not a bad wrap up to four years of studying here.

I can't thank Bro K enough for all his love and support the last four years. He has been my Professor, Bishop, Private Instructor, and Father away from home.

My family came for my recital and graduation and have been a huge support to me my entire life. It was so nice to get to share The Land of Aloha with them becuase I have come to love it so dearly myself, especially

BYU-Hawaii.

One Year Already?

Wow has it really been a year since my last post?!?! so much has gone on. Steel Band Tour to Maui, a trip to London and Paris, Earth, Wind and Fire and Chicago concert, back to school for my final year, audition in to the Nauvoo Brass Band, survived music history part 1 and Fitness for Death (...I mean Living), an excellent Christmas with my family, back for my last semester (how did that happen), accepted to the Nauvoo Brass Band(Yay!!), working towards being ready for my Senior Trumpet Recital and Graduation this April, and these are just a few of the Good things. Lots of Laughs, Tears, Learning, Growing, and being led to where I am now. I'm very grateful for the things I have learned and for who I have become just in the past year.



Maui Tour-all the girls

Happy Birthday to ME!

England and Paris (they are a little out of order but it is too much work to fix them)

open top double decker ride - super scarry, cold, but awesome

Notre Dame

Tower of London

London Symphony Orchestra-amazing (I also got to go to the Opera, Andrew and Dad didn't want to go can you believe it?)

Near Lynton and Lynmouth in the Exmore region -Valley of the Rocks

St Paul's Cathederal

Notre Dame

London England Temple

Bus in London

Cambridge

Mt Angel Monestary Natural History Museum

Earth, Wind, and Fire and Chicago Concert - Need I say more? It was Awesome!!!

Hawaii is beautiful

Nice face, huh?

I love the Brass Ensemble

On the town in Honolulu

Christmas at home

It has been a good year and there is still so much to look forward to. My ENTIRE Family coming to Hawaii for Graduation and my Senior Recital, Nauvoo, and so much in store that I don't know about yet.

University Chorale November 20, 2008

I was very lucky to get to sing in the chorale Fall semester. I never realize how much I miss singing until I get to sing. I have also gotten to know Bro K. well, and this way I got to know his wife who was the director better as well.

Mom is not very sneaky with the picture taking. I saw her so I'm smirking, plus everyone around me thought that they needed to tell me she was there. :)

Don't we look so good. Where's Waldo... I mean Kellene?

The Kammerers and I

Megan is pretty awesome. She was another reason choir was so nice.

Strutting my mu'u mu'u. I was considering getting one for keeps, what do you think. ;)

Life Goes On

Even though Mom was there I still had to continue with school. Mom enjoyed watching me practice for my sight singing test and writing a research paper among other things.

We did however get to do some fun non-music related things. TheBus is a great way to get to Matsumoto's shave ice (always a must) and Haleiwa Thai eats (delicious as well).

Surprise - November 19, 2008

Mom surprised me by walking into my room the night of my Steel band concert. It was quite a shock but a very nice surprise. I enjoyed having her here to cheer for me.

It is a little hard to see but that is me setting up. We had a few songs with a percussion ensemble before the steel drums. I played marimba then the trumpet (and no that is not a percussion instrument) and I had a solo on the duck call. :) it took me hours to get the solo right. Actually they assigned me to it in the dress rehearsal hours before I was a bit nervous for that, it takes skill to play the duck call with proficiency.

I was glad Mom was there.

I am ashamed to say I didn't help taking down very much because everyone wanted my picture.

My fan club including Teresa was there with my poster. They are Awesome!

Salsa Concert (I'm way behind just in case you were wondering)

Well I figured I had better update my blog since it has been a while. hehe thirsty? SOOO I'll start and see how long it will take me to catch up.

Salsa Concert

November 15th, 2008 was the salsa ensemble concert. It went quite well. My fan club was there so I got lots of cheers. That is always nice.

The brass ensemble was supposed to play as well, however due to Bro Kammerer's (the director) heart trouble it was postponed.

Halloween

So I hadn't figured out what I wanted to be for Halloween and it was the afternoon/evening of Halloween and we decided to try and make my hair stick up with the aid of hangers but it was not working very well. It wasn't working so well and we were running out of time. it ended up that we messed up my hair majorly and I went as my hidden self... an insane woman. :)

Rachel went as an emo (which didn't work by the way because she can't keep from smiling and laughing) and Teresa went as a zombie princess. They were both gorgeous in a Halloweenish scary way, and then there was me. It took a load of conditioner, a half hour of combing it out, and a couple of days to get my hair back to normal.

Since Teresa is an RA and had to work at the Halloween activity that housing put on, that is where we went. The pictures are a little foggy because of the fog machine but that just adds to the crazy looks people had.

You better watch out we may end up at your door next year. hahahaha

Happy Halloween!

Dole Plantation Maze

We went to the Dole Plantation and went to the worlds largest maze according to the Guinness Book of World Records 2001 on October 25th . It rained a lot and we were thoroughly soaked. It was tons of fun though.

I was pretty excited to go since I had never been in a maze of any kind.

At this point we were not too wet and had just found one of the eight stations we needed to finish the maze.

After we were done, we were drenched from the rain and the wet hibiscus bushes, oh and also from having Teresa throw water on me from the wet metal station. Funny thing was, she did it without intending to and was more surprised than I was when my shirt became sopping wet.

A little more rain wasn't going to hurt anything.

Smile everyone... or open wide. I don't remember why this became the face of choice.