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Tonight is my last night here at home. Tomorrow is the first day of drum major camp at Michigan State University (in the Lansing, Michigan). I am going to learn how to become a better drum major in terms of commanding, sending out my voice to the marchers, and to conduct different time signatures. What I want to gain from this camp is everything that a drum major needs to know, which I want to obtain. It is just a three day camp (7/10-7/13), but on the third day, I am going to be home around 5pm to be ready for a bus ride to Michigan Technology University.
At 8:30pm is the time when the bus will arrive to pick me up and I am going to be at the university for two weeks. It is called the National Summer Transportation Institute, which is a camp about learning engineering. That is what I what, something to start early on on my engineer career in the future. That is my dream on becoming in the future, an engineer who reuses materials to make clean, style transportation for common around the world. So this is what I am looking for.
I am not finished yet, after coming home on July 26, I will receive a night’s rest for the next camp at Michigan State. Robotics engineering is the activity there.
I am super excited for this month. I believe this summer is going to be the busiest summer that I am ever going to be in, for now. I said farewell to all my cross country friends today for my long trip and I will see them in August, until I have marching band camp and a trip to Florida with my family. That is my summer, so I won’t be able to post any more on this blog until I get back home.
Well thank you for reading this and I hope all of you have a great summer.
Peace out brothers and sisters. -MNM

From June 29 (Sunday) to July 7 (Saturday and it’s today), I have been experiencing jazz for three days from 8am to 6pm at Western Michigan the western campus. Those three days was a jazz program created by my high school jazz band teacher, Benje Danceman, his wife, Ashely Daneman, and a pianist, Nich Mueller (FYI, he is not part of my family).
Each one was a teacher for an instrument group, a theory group, and a band group. Benje taught the horns, Ashely taught the singers, and Nich taught the rhythm section. Three teachers for 23 students is something that is worth doing for other people to learn, play, and make new friends to play jazz. Just like how I experienced, learned and played jazz, and make new friends to play gigs with.
While that happened, on 7/2 was the Jazz Start Performance for us students at the Union. Three bands got to play two songs that is either jazz or songs that was “jazzed” up by us students. I can’t really explain everything of that night, but I got to meet new teens and adults that are either locally or far away in Michigan. I was sad when some of them had to go back to other cities in Michigan.
Fireworks is fun and dangerous at the same time at a near distance. For example, two large fireworks exploded at about 30 feet that made my head spin and ears ring by a little bit. It was fun and excited to see and light the light show. Many of you would say that you have done the same thing, got for you, as long it is fun to do.
So that is my week. I hope you all had a good week and a fourth of July.
Thank you for reading this and keep a look out for the next post of my life.
Peace out brother and sisters. -MNM

Two parties in one day, it not the first time that I have done that. To begin with, I went to a graduated friend of mine named Joey. He is a cross country and track runner for his four years in high school. There were many familiar faces at his party; many which are graduate friends and current high school friends. The weather was gloomy and dark clouded for about one hour, until the sun came up to settle down the scene.
Just looking at Joey’s school year pictures made me surprised on how much he has changed throughout the years. For two years I have known him through school and cross country. Now that he graduated, he is moving on to University of Michigan Dearborn.
The other party that I went to on that same day, was a concert of Keith Hall’s Summer Drum Intensive (there was a second week for pro/advanced players to participate) at the Union, same location where week one people performed at. It started at 7pm and ended at around 10:40pm; just hours of drums, piano, bass, singing, and trumpet were heard. There were two new piano players and one new bass player that I have not met before, Sam was the only bass player that stayed with the Keith Hall for the second week. The restaurant was packed with strangers and familiar faces that night. Some were my drum friends and others were the staffs [including Keith Hall]. It has been a week since I have last seen them. A pleasure welcome came from them as I stayed with the concert and to learn from the pros on the drums. Among the students, there was a 67 year old man who could really play just like that with no problem. I was surprised by that and showed me that the elder still has the stuff in playing instruments today.
I was glad for participating those two parties for a day. Seeing people that I will see again in the future through running or playing jazz. It was a pleasure in making a good friendship with them for years to come.
Thank you for reading this and keep a look out for the next post of my life.
Peace Out Brothers and Sisters- MNM

The next post will be about what I got the do today.

Hello everybody, the name is Martin Mueller. I am a musician, a believer, a brother to many others, and an go after to goals. This is my first blog to use my new official home website to just post what I want to talk about, or just show some websites that you might want to see, or anything that is cool or important.

As some may or may not know, I have a blog called My Life as a Martin. You could check it out if you want, it is for the public to read and know what things have been going on (maybe not everything in my life). But here you go guys and gals, my first post on my new home page. Come back once in a while to see what I have in stores.

Do you think your country is “good”? Well guess what; I disagree with it. There are a very few country that are “good” in certain categories, such as Science & Technology, Culture, Int’l Peace & Security, World Order, Planet & Climate, Prosperity &Equality, and Health &Wellbeing. My dad sent me this article to read and understand which country does the most “good” in those categories.

Ideas.Ted.Com is the website that is in on.
However, just because that country does the most “good”, doesn’t mean that its people and other countries are doing “good” deeds. As the author said in two main quotes: “Countries still behave as if they weren’t connected; they still measure their performance entirely inwards” and “Countries perform better and better, but the world and planet and humanity in general are getting worse and worse.” 

Take consider and read the article above to understand what the writer is trying to tell every single on of us. I could tell you one thing, as a human being of this one only home planet, we are far from complete and perfect; we need to change almost everything in our minds and what we do towards everything. Technology, politics, culture, health, climate, world order, and much more that I could go on and on right now, needs to be fixed right now and for further on. There is a key to do that; it just starts with a step out into the world and dig your way into society to find good and mindful people that are trying to make a difference in this unfinished world.  There are people out there, such as me, that want to change the world in a way that may require some arms and legs (just a metaphor), but the reward/outcome could be or is something beyond our dreams and what we get from our “lazy-way” rewards.

Take a moment right now, and think what you could make a difference in this world; it doesn’t have to be big, start off small actions then to big actions, from yourself-to your family-your friends (locally or foreign)-your community-your state-your country-your world. Dream big that is good for yourself and to the world, both humans and nature.

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams” -Eleanor Roosevelt

Last week was nothing but drums and beat. I was in Keith Hall’s Drum Experience camp for a week at Western University campus.  I learned new drumming that will help me the next time I play drums (jazz mainly). The staffs were very nice to help and teach students how to drum like the pros. I also made lots of new friends that I hope to see them again in next years drum camp and in life. They taught me to have courage in my play, which I did on two performance dates at the Union.

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Sorry for the late post after school. I had plans up rolling for the summer. So to put it short, the school year was fast that I could just blink three times and that would be it. We did have some snow days that moved the end of the school day further, but not much to replace all of it. I did more activities inside and outside of school for my sophomore year; one advanced class, cross country (fall sport) and golf (spring sport), more spending with anime club, and much more jazz gigs at different locations. Those were the main activities that I enjoyed and throughout the school year, I got to learn lessons that I will need in the future and throughout my life.
Currently right now, I am in this drum camp called Keith Hall Summer Drum Intensive (you could learn more about him on this link). I learning the drum’s way of playing and feel for every hit of the drum stick. The camp is six days; four days at Western Michigan University and two performance days at the Union (the same place where my high school jazz band performed once). So far, I am really enjoying the experience of playing and learning. New friends and teachers that I make, which I call them drum buddies. I can’t explain the experience, but it is something that you should try in the future or right now.
Yeah, that is all I could say.
Peace out brothers and sisters-MNM

This week has been fast, just too fast. First off, my dad and grandmother made it here from Colorado to Texas, then Texas to Michigan in a 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee. They traveled day and night in a jeep that was given to me from my grandfather. They arrived in Michigan on May 26 at around 5 pm. Such a great pleasure for my grandmother to come visit for a while until next Tuesday. For now, my own car is now here and I can start driving to school without riding worrying about transportation. I can ride it any where that I need and want to go.
The seats are very comfortable and the interior is my favorite part of the car. Such seats, radio, and everything else that I love about my jeep. It is a good jeep to drive and do many things. I got to add my new licence plate and my cross country sticker to the back of the car. Soon, I will start adding more decorations and items on the exterior and the interior of the jeep. I will post a picture of my jeep maybe in the future, for now, I don’t want to just show off.
Any way, I sent a letter to my grandfather to thank him for giving on of his cars to me to drive and have fun in life. I also thanked my dad and mom for doing the payment of the car and for my grandmother to watch over it in Colorado until my dad came by to pick it up. I thank them with all my heart. That moment was a special moment in my chapter book for my 16th chapter (16 years I am right). Driving and experiencing the technology of the jeep was an experience that felt like energy channeling through my veins. Even though it is not as gas efficiency as today’s car, it it still has a good gas per mile for now, until I plan to make it cleaner and using a different fuel.
So yeah, my grandmother is here and my jeep is here too. This week has been good, along with the Band Award Banquet and school. Life right now is going what I wanted it to be, good challenges that will push you to do many things and work harder, and receive good rewards depending on the type of challenge you do. Now my next thing I have to do is waiting for my parents to make a card that I will only use for paying my gas of my car, and take care of my car regular inspections. I know that there are other teens out there that is experiencing similar things that I am experiencing.