Testing, 1 2

Wednesday morning, September 4, 2013 the most beautiful morning...cool...breezy and the bluest sky

Yesterday marked a huge milestone for me....I completed all the Level 1 Requirements and I am ready for my 2 exams.  I received a copy of the email from my Mentor to the Director of the Harp for Healing Program and I am proud to say it was a "glowing" report.  She was so helpful and kind with her reviews of my music and yet she kept her standards high and I appreciate that so much.  She also mentioned she has never had a Student finish these requirements in 3 months...whoooohoooo!  To this I owe my Husband Tad....he is most supportive and such a believer of Therapeutic Music.  He has reaped the benefits of my evening practices while he does his work on his laptop.  He reminds me of the Giant in Jack in the Beanstalk.  If I wasn't playing while he was working he would holler..."Harpist!  I want my music!"

I believe I will do fine on the exams and this opens the door for countable Internship hours.  I will be shadowing my Supervisor next  week at Arundel Medical Center during her Bedside Harping.  Actual Bedside Harping to an individual Patient is the ONLY time that is credited to your Internship Requirements.  I am sad that playing at Infusion will not count, but I am committed to that Unit of the Hospital so I will continue to volunteer once a week there.

Level 2 of the Program is also exciting.  I have already started my first book...."Molecules of Emotion"...very interesting so far.  I can honestly say, all the required reading in Level 1 was exciting and never boring!  But what I'm most excited about in Level 2 is the Improv Skills I will develop.  I am such a strict Note Reader, and was never taught nor did I attempt to become better at Improv.  This is a very important tool for a Clinical Musician.  To be able to flow into the unknown and still keep a pulse rhythm in your Music is a skill I am not familiar with .....YET!  Still so much to learn but I am pumped!!!