Ziteng Liu, is an international student in Newcastle University studying business, and she is also member of Newcastle Wind Band. She come here to talk about her life with music and as a student, why she wants to join in the band in a busy studying life and how to balance music and study.
It is her first year to be here, at the welcome meeting held by the Student Union, she knew there was a band contains many flute players and she made the decision to be one of them.
One of the reasons to join in the band is language, she wants to improve her English very fast, and as the only Chinese in this band, she has too push herself to speak English.
Everyone is very kind to her, to give suggestions from living to study. She makes lots of friends here, and she find a group of young people get together every week to play music and enjoy music.
She has been learned flute for twelve years, and she also participated in bands when she was in senior school and high school. She said the music has been a very important part of her life, no matter where she will go, music like a friend to be with her all the time.
At the beginning, she didn’t decide to join a band, because studying abroad is a hard thing, she need to studying out of class in order to make sense what teachers are teaching each week.
Finally, she also decided follow her heart, to make busy life more interesting. They have to practice three or four times each week, especially when they have performances.
She was really enjoying the life with music now, and she also find that she got great improvement on study. Unlike her classmates who need to overcome the barrier of language, she can easily understand what teachers said.
She said when she was under too much pressure from study, she would like to use her flute to relax and calm down, music is an efficient medicine to cure her lonely and crazy feelings.
LIVE IN MUSIC 