Finals Week!

So I'm sure you can tell by the title that this was finals weeks and compared to other finals week this one was mildly stressful. Out of six classes I only ended up having to take four finals. It was so hard trying to balance work, church, the holidays and studying.....I guess you could say LIFE! The final that I was spazing out the most about was my vocal final. Only because I'm super self-conscious about my singing, I had to sing two songs. One song I had to pick and the other the Jury (four teachers from the music department) would pick the other one once I got there. I had four songs to choose from so I had to know all of them equally as well. I had two Italian songs and two English songs. I picked one of the Italian songs "Caro Mio Ben" and they chose for me to sing "American Lullaby". One thing my private voice lesson teacher consistently kept telling me was to sing with confidence, that I don't trust myself. So I was afraid that my lack of confidence would shine through again, so during the week I sang in front of Kim (which went horribly) I also sang in front of this guy from work, and again for Kim along with Joy and Jayme.

So the day of the final I'm freaking out, nervous as nervous can get. I felt like I was going to loose my breakfast at any moment. I had tons of people praying for me and before I went in I prayed "God I am not asking for you to Supernaturally make me sound amazing, all I am asking is that you provide me confidence, that your peace would come over me." Holy Cow, I can't even tell you how great my final went. I was so pleasantly surprise, it was such a great feeling. God was definitely with me (like I knew he would be) it was so clear. I wasn't nervous at all, I wasn't jittery, my voice didn't quiver nothing, it was amazing!

This is what I wore to my final, I had a purple headband as well (not pictured) I also had purple eye shadow.