Calisa Hildebrand

I’m officially moved in to my new apartment in Cole Valley, San Francisco! I can’t believe it! I’m so ecstatic and still in awe of everything that has happened.

I love my apartment and my roommates. We live in a quintessential San Franciscan flat with moldings, stenciled wallpaper, a 1/2 and 1/2 bathroom, and beautiful bay windows with flower beds right outside the window. To top things off, there is an amazing falafel restaurant just ten feet away, and it is only a 12 minute MUNI ride to SFCM (San Francisco Conservatory of Music)!

My best friends and I moved me up from Southern California to San Francisco on Sunday morning in a fancy Uhaul, threw everything in my new room, and drove back early Monday morning to get back to work bright and early Tuesday! It was a crazy 24 hour period, but it was so much fun. The storage unit is even emptied out!

I’ll go back up to SF Sunday afternoon after my performance at the All Saint’s Church in Santa Barbara, and then I have a meeting on Monday, and the SFCM orientation is Tuesday morning! Next week will be crazy… meetings, orientations, registrations, and auditions!

Did I mention I’m excited? Everything has worked out so well I keep pinching myself because it just seems too good to be true! I’m keeping my fingers crossed that things keep staying so positive

Cheers to new beginnings, new friends, new places, new opportunities, and of course, to new music!

-Calisa