“Ah! The glory of technology!”

Greetings unto all who visit this site!
I have been a member of the SCA since birth and enthralled by song not long after that. This tool will provide a myriad of different purposes as described below. Suffice to say, you are viewing a resource that will catalog my work from start to end. You can see how my music/poetry ignites, finds its footing, and hones its prose. You can learn from my mistakes, comment for mutual benefit, debate perspective, and more. You will also be able to view the perspectives, roles, tasks, and executions of both student and teacher.

Enjoy!

Objective:
It is my desire to someday achieve a greater level of mastery over my craft and do the best at what I do. While I have enthusiasm and OCD to spare, I have many miles yet to tread before accomplishing that goal. This will serve as a guiding ramp and a testament to lessons past.

Format:
In my quest and through this online format, it is my hope that others may learn from my soon-to-be-advertised mistakes. Be you one of many or one alone on your own road, it is my intent to share my experience with you that we may all come out the wiser for it.

While I am certain this format will evolve, the basic premise is as follows:
-Niall gives Ambra assignment and step breakdown/timeline
-Ambra exceeds expectations
-All embrace the simple truth that Niall and Ambra ROCK!

Okay, but seriously, you will get to see from start to finish the academic, poetic, and musical aspects of many a bardic assignment. SAVE THIS PAGE as it may become a useful resource in your own research.

Teacher & Student:
Contrary to what I am certain you must have heard, even ‘I’ am not perfect. I know, I know, shocker that it is, I assure you this is the simple truth. One of my greatest failings is often noted as being my focus on the future to the neglect of the present. In my struggles to achieve my goals I find that a teacher-less existence equates a path of wisdom-oriented ignorance. While I could ask for no better an example of a peer than my father (Sir Forgal Kerstetter currently in Trimarus), composition does not write itself nor do talents hone to skill without wizened crafting.

Niall, many years ago, offered me a belt and a place in his house. Through circumstance and misfortune, we went our separate ways. While our official status stands in perpetual flux, he has always been open-handed and kind-spirited in his teachings and friendship, and for that I am grateful.

While many laurels of Atlantia (and beyond) have been generous with their wisdom and advice, Niall and I have a history which has forged this more focused attack on my bardic studies. He has agreed to serve as a dedicated teacher and taskmaster, though the ideal will be for both of us to eventually become such for each other.

Eye toward the Future:
We live in a time of technology. I myself am a graphic designer by trade and thus work with computers regularly. I attend school online, full time, seeking my BS in GD. And in this time we are more nomadic with opportunities and economies being what they are. Thus said, I am quite intrigued by the concept of long-distance teacher/student relationships and their ability to endure and prove of merit to their craft. I hope to take the lessons of this form of tutelage as well as the content of the assignments themselves, and apply them to my own someday teacher/student experiences.

Cheers!
So here we are. Pens poised, minds sharp, and ambitions high. Shall we begin?

~Ambra ;)