Day 7, Sunday Sep. 4th

This morning I found myself at the English Reformed Church on Begijnhof. I have never been to anything quite like this church; the service was not Catholic (at least I don't think so), but it was very liturgical. I defiantly had to use my music history knowledge (from studying so many masses) to understand what was going on. The church itself, however, was very beautiful and very old, older than American in fact! I believe they said the building was finished in 1608, but had been restored and renovated several times, naturally.

After church I came back to the apartment and made lunch; a pretty good home-made marinara sause with spagetti (yes very Dutch, I know). Later a few of us went to see if our Conservatorium ID cards were ready, so we could practice. Naturally, they were not, but we managed to find open rooms anyway. I noticed that none of the practice drum kits have cymbals or hi-hat clutches, so I am out of luck there. Attempting to write was a total joke as well. I am really not cut out to be a composer if I can't even sit at a piano and sketch for an hour. Hopefully orientation tomorrow will help straighten some details out and get my nerves back down to a manageable level.