Sí, toco la guitarra...pero sólo un poco.

Instead of writing about the interesting occurrences and craziness of the 4th of July and post-4th that have been taking up most of my time lately--because let's be realistic here, it only mattered if you were involved--I'm going to write about something kind of exciting going on. I've started playing the guitar. Now, mind you, I haven't played the guitar since 7th grade when I was taking an exploratory music class at my middle school (I went to a School of the Arts for visual art, but each semester you were in a different "exploratory" that way you could see the differences in each of the core arts). So this is very different for me. I've always had a knack for music though. I played piano for about 4 or 5 years until I really got into soccer, and I've been in different music choirs since I can remember. Guitar has always been a struggle for me though. That month of guitar in middle school was anything but fun for me. I was terrible. I could never get my fingers on the right frets or the right strings and it was just bad. But, I'm trying it again. I'm using my mom's guitar from when she used to play. It's been sitting in the garage for a while collecting dust after it took a brief hiatus elsewhere. It's not anything fancy and probably not worth more than 20 bucks, but I really like it. Once I get a good picture of it I'll put it up on here. I'm not really sure why all of the sudden I'm wanting to take up guitar. I feel like I've wasted a lot of my summer not doing too much. I've been working for the most part, visiting friends from SC and Georgia when I can. I haven't been able to start my Spanish novel like I wanted but hopefully that will change in the next few days. I'm getting ready to go to Salkehatchie for a week (but that's a discussion for another post) which will provide some much-needed distraction from a lot of what's going on in my life. But I need a different escape. Something I can work on a little bit at a time and see some progress. So, I can't very well take my piano to college this fall, but you can bet that my guitar will be one of things traveling with me to Athens in August. I guess I could argue that I love acoustic music and love listening to my friends play guitar (the ones that will play in front of me anyway) and I kind of want to see if I can do it too. We'll see how it goes though. I just hope it's not one of those things that I get into for a while and then lose interest in. Because let's face it, I totally want to be like every other college student that learns guitar in college...