Exit Plan/Statement

Exit Plan/Statement

My transition out of high school has been a long awaited one. I feel like this last year has been limbo and I could have done much more if I was out making it all happen for myself. Total opinion, but I thought that I should start this topic of with a bold statement. My plan, if it wasn’t that obvious is to study music in a post secondary institution for a full degree. I will be studying drums, jazz drums. This has been my one and only passion for the last 8 years I would say. I started taking lessons on drums at about 9 years and have been going ever since. I stopped for one year to take piano and I thought that it helped a bit. I can’t read piano that well but I still liked it. Drums have just always suited me so I am going to study them intensely after high school. Over the past two months, Capilano and Mcgill have accepted. I was pretty stoked when I found that out. I still have not yet decided but I will decide within the next few weeks. I do always have to option to go to Capilano first and then transfer all of my courses to Mcgill. I might do this because if my courses are all transferable, because I need to get the theory part of my learning up and then after maybe one or two years of doing that, I will then transfer to Mcgill and do all of the live music things where I can simply transfer all of my learning into the real situation. In terms of living, I would not be able to go to Capilano and bus every single day. I have talked to people about going to Capilano from my own home area and they say that it takes them around one and a half hours to capilano and from home and all of the way back. I would not be able to sustain a life going to Capilano if I live in Fort Langley. This is why I have proposed the idea to my parents that I will go live at my uncle Jim’s house. When I was over there a couple of months ago, I was hanging with all of my uncles and I told them about my plan to either go to Capilano or Mcgill, and right away they said that I should live there. Just for a whereabouts of where they live, they live right next to the second narrows bridge. That’s really close to where Capilano actually is. I also have many friends and people who I play jazz with who live really close to Capilano. For me this would enable faster productivity and more chances to really increase my craft. I would live there if everything works out. The only wall that I am hitting now is with my aunt. She is essentially the queen of the household. Everyone respects her and when she doesn’t like something, then it changes. I am thinking that if I go there and she doesn’t like it then I will have to leave. But if it is a success than I will be able to live and go to Capilano without a massive pitfall of commuting. I want my life to be empty of possessions, full of family and full of music. I want it simple yet very productive and filled with opportunities. I feel like this would be a fantastic decision because of my longing to be off to do my own thing. This entire past year, I have been craving to leave this school and go off to work on my craft exclusively. The entire idea of me going off to university is such a great productive idea because I have to get better on my instrument, it’s essentially my only purpose. It’s exclusively the only thing that I feel like I have to do, the only thing I am good at and the only thing I am called to do. The skills I have learned while getting to the next level on my craft is to simply say yes to every single opportunity that comes across my way. I remember at the beginning of the year I was saying yes to everything that came my way. At first I thought that this was a bad thing and would hurt me long term. At first I was stressing out so much because I was basically managing two lives. My life was so busy (it still is) but I realised that I would be able to grow so much as a kid and be able to become an adult. I still say yes to things even if I know that I won’t be able to do it, because I know that I can only grow from it. At the beginning of this year, my life was pretty unproductive. I was in school and I was very limited. I knew that I needed to expand my horizons and start bands with really good players because that was really the only way that I was going to get better. Playing with other people is a thing of it’s own. I can’t possibly replicate the things that I learn playing with other people in any way. This learning that took place only progressed and I got so much better than I was. I knew that this was a product of me saying yes to so many things. I learned at that point that saying yes to things increased my production, increased my social awareness, and increased my playing exponentially. When I progress along in my life, the skills that I have learned that have led up to my graduation will aid my in my plan to become a musician. I cannot stress how much saying yes to everything gets you really far. In order for me to get these opportunities, I have to pay for school, and in order for me to pay for schooling, I have to work. I need to work during the summer because schooling requires money. I also need to get more money through bursaries or at least try. Scholarships as well. I have enjoyed my last couple of years at LFAS but I feel its time. Its time to leave and get on with my other parts of life, time to progress more as a human being and time to really understand the world.