day seventeen.

This certainly feels like quite the whirlwind trip. We left yesterday morning, but it feels like we’ve been gone for a solid four days. Any who, we arrived in Nashville at 11pm. Well, really it was 12pm our time, but they’re on Central Time Zone (I’m questioning the accuracy of that statement) and we gained an hour. That was ridiculously lovely. We stayed in a gorgeous hotel, at my request of course. Breakfast was free with our stay, and also as enjoyable as the hotel. We then drove around Broadway and reminisced about our recent choir trip to Nashville. It was just as great as I remembered!

Then, we got to Belmont at 10:45, par their request. I will admit, I was extremely nervous. They had given us a card to fill out, about our information and intended majors and such. However, it asked us what our primary instrument or voice part was, and this is an extreme problem for me. I play the piano, cello, and saxophone, and am also an alto in choir, and I’m mediocre at all them. I don’t excel in any one instrument, but the wow factor is more that I can function on all of these instruments. Unfortunately, in the music major aspect of college, you have to pick one. I’ll be studying it, taking lessons on it, and basically living with it for eight semesters. This might even be a bigger decision than actually picking a college. Needless to say, it’s crazy intimidating sitting in a room of six other kids who know exactly what they’re doing, and you can’t even pick an instrument. Something I need to smooth out now, for sure.

Anyways, Belmont is a GORGEOUS campus. Legitimately, you walk on campus, and are smothered by flowers and lush green grass and fountains and statues and gazebos and columns and it’s just beautiful. And not in a gaudy, overzealous way either. Just classy. Then, you get inside the building, and you realize how nice the facilities are. It’s so open and pristine. You just want to stay! Our tour guide also told us how loving everyone is there. The “lunch ladies” (college equivalent of them?) learn everybody’s name and your teachers actually invest time in you. The student teacher ratio is something like thirteen to one. AND it’s three miles away from Broadway. Music Row is in its front yard. Needless to say, it left a significantly more impressive impression on me than Liberty. It’s definitely in my top if not my first choice. College is going to be awesome.