Stamps Baxter School of Southern Gospel Music

Boy, am I tired... :)




We arrived at the school Sunday afternoon, after having stayed the night at a motel in Illinois. All they had left was a suite. Guess who got bumped up? us :D Ha ha, but it wasn't that big of a deal. It was a super 8. It was nice to lay down, but a Super 8 Suite, isn't all that sweet :) Anyways, we checked in and got our room keys and brought all of our stuff into the rooms from the car. We had a lot of things, so we had to make a few trips. The interesting thing about the dorm building, is it is kept at a nice... 60 degrees. (Or that's what I would say!) Outside, its a 101 degrees and very, VERY humid. Honestly, I was enjoying the hot. humidity as crazy as that sounds. The bad part was walking into the dorms from outside. Have you ever left a cup of ice on the table, and come back to find water on the outside? Yeah, its like that. Your clothes get so damp from all the condensation your body gets from changing 40 degrees in three seconds! On the plus side, the air is so dry your clothes are dry in a minute. So it balances out :)

Classes started the next day at 8, breakfast at 7. For breakfast: Biscuits and gravy, and sausage. Thank you Jesus ^_^ The work day is made up of theory classes, group singing , nightly concerts from professional Gospel groups/singers, and performance opportunity when groups from the school get to play. Oh, and 1 elective and vocal warm ups =p  Ben Speer sang for us. That man has an amazing voice.

The mandatory part of the day ends at 9PM, and then the optional performance opportunity. The Second night, Dylan and I took a nice long walk to the vending machines across campus. Fireflies. Trees. Grass under our bare feet.Stars glowing over head. A full moon shining its pale lamplight through the branches.Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.

Next morning... We over slept >.> I missed the first 50 minutes of class. Dylan was getting ready, and after I left... fell back asleep. in his chair -__-  Didn't wake up till lunch... But we were all on time the next day :) I'll tell you, this is a fantastic experience, to be able to just build relationships with people who share the same passion for music and the same passion for worshiping our Lord, Jesus Christ. Everyone here is very, very talented :) Well, I am tired and need to be off to bed :)  I'll post again, don't worry!


Night, Ya'll :)