This morning, we were up and enjoying breakfast at the hotel by 8:30. We left at 9:00 to head over to SIUe to orient ourselves a bit. We wandered around Dunham Hall for a bit.
While she was at IMEC, Annah had visited the SIUe booth in the exhibit hall and had met some of the SIUe music faculty, including Dr. Emily Truckenbrod, who is Director of Vocal Studies. When Annah told Dr. T her story, and that she was scheduled to audition tomorrow, Dr. T invited Annah to come today and have a lesson with her and sit in on the voice area studio class this afternoon!
We found Dr. T's office and a practice room right across the hall for Annah to warm up before her lesson. She loved every second of her lesson and cannot wait to study with Dr. T! She is like a tiny little bundle of sunshine and just so wonderful!
After the voice lesson, we had a little time, so we went to find the Transfer Office and asked a few questions. We learned that Annah should send her transcript including this semester's classes in now so they can begin to look at what classes will transfer from Greenville and what will not. We think she may end up needing to do 4 years at SIUe, since her GU Honors Program courses may not transfer as gen eds, and she wants to take Music Theory 2 again, so she will just start over at Theory 1 and basically remain a freshman with a lot of credits next fall.
We also visited the main Admissions Office, and Annah asked some questions about scholarships and dates for various transfer student checklist items. We verified that as a transfer student she is only eligible for one small academic scholarship, so we really hope her audition goes well tomorrow!
After leaving Admissions, we went next door to the amazing student center. We visited Starbucks and saw the bookstore and other things available to students there.
The SIUe mascot is the cougar, so it won't be too big a change for Annah to go from a GU panther to an SIUe cougar.
SIUe was hosting composer Libby Larsen for a 4-day residency, and the voice area studio class Annah had been invited to was actually a masterclass with Libby Larsen! We heard 4 students sing her incredibly difficult pieces very well, and she worked with each of them. We were blown away! The singers at SIUe are SINGING!!!
After the masterclass, we met up with Ryan. We were going to try to go to Texas Roadhouse, but we decided we didn't have enough time before Ryan had to be back to campus to work. So we ate at Fazoli's. Annah is always happy to have fettuccine alfredo. Really, she was just happy to see Ryan, because they hadn't seen each other in about 2 weeks.
We went back to campus, hoping Annah would be able to get a walk-in appointment at the hair salon in the student center, but we were told they were completely booked. Ryan went to work, and Annah and I hit the SIUe bookstore to get her a school sweatshirt and water bottle. Then we decided to head out to Walmart.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
Caeden was making a delicious dinner of tater tots for himself and Sylvia.
She looks pretty cute.
I had brought some Valentine's treats, including a puzzle, for Annah. Ryan came to the hotel after he got off work, and I ran next door to get some food from Sonic.
They match!
Happy Valentine's Day!
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