Yesterday was the best day ever ... today was pretty bad
OK, woke up and showed up at work... took Bryce and Alyssa out of class to rehearse What Child is This? They did so well... Bryce is such a talented little flute player. He worked up those two pages in a couple weeks and sounded great. Alyssa also did very well on the clarinet. I sent them back to class to do their 4th grade party cause they sounded amazing and there was nothing to worry about.
I have to leave for a party in 30 minutes. This is a reminder to re-evaluate my life because I have TOO MUCH TO DO. I am LAZY how is it possible I am working so much?
I ran around the place dealing with the woodwind children, telling them to put their instruments together and sit down. Running to the office to make photocopies of the music they forgot to bring. This was an 11am concert at the school so that the kids could do an assembly and watch what the orchestra has been up to.
The trumpets started off with a memorized christmas piece... they froze on stage and had to be coached by the trumpet instructor to get to the end. Then Bryce and Alyssa did What Child is This while Ms Polo and I played with them. They sounded great... we tried not to outplay them. Bryce's high G sounded so good. Talented kids!!! oh my gosh. haha more thunderous applause!
Then I conducted the orchestra and woodwinds playing jolly old st. nick and holy, holy, holy. I really don't know how I got all this responsibility but I was so proud of myself and all the kids involved. Putting on a concert is so much STRESS.
I need to slow down my life. The choir went on after the orchestra. I left before the choir portion (tacky I know) because I had to run to the music store. I had already seen it last week when we did the night concert for the parents. I went over to Bronstein's music and talked to one of the owners... his daughter goes to Church of the Highlands so we had a long talk. I told him I wanted to buy something for each of my flute students.
Originally, I was only going to get something for top 5 but then decided I couldn't leave the other 4 out on christmas =( so i spent 112 bucks at the music store because i didn't want to buy stuff they would just throw away. I let the kids take turns choosing... their order was based on how many strs they achieved through the semester. ... I bought 2 music stands, a book of john williams tunes, a metronome/tuner, a watch with the 12 chromatic notes instead of numbers, a silk flute swabbing cloth, a practice journal (which thankfully last place girl got MAUAHAHA), a book of christmas tunes, and a harmonica. One kid CRIED so hard because he was 3rd to last and didn't get what he wanted. Hot sticky tears streamed down his face because he didn't get one of the music stands. He grabbed a 12 cookie high stack of chocolate chip cookies and slumped in a chair as he cried and cried and stuffed his face... I took a picture of that. I'll upload later.
Since this semester was the first semester of the orchestra program ever, none of the parents had to pay to have their child attend the class. Starting in the fall they will have to pay. They are letting me be the flute instructor for their after school conservatory next semester. I can't believe how lucky I am to have such a sweet gig. I'll be getting 23 bucks for a 30 minute lesson. I have to make the most of it since I can only do it for one more semester before I have to find a replacement for myself. I'll be moving up to stockton for university of the pacific next semester.
THEN after that I rushed to get a pie from Shari's diner to bring to the dinner/rehearsal with my friends with whom i will be performing tomorrow... we're doing christmas carols at a few old folks homes... iuygfeuwiheowhywe uyfgewiufbiuwegfuwhr
Maybe if I journaled more often I wouldn't feel the need to write so much all the time. No time to finish. I really think about that quote, "An unexamined life is not worth living." I don't feel that way right now because I feel as if I am accomplishing so much... though I do know I could accomplish more if I took the time to be a little more thoughtful. I think that I am on facebook too much instead of livejournal.
I have to leave for a party in 30 minutes. This is a reminder to re-evaluate my life because I have TOO MUCH TO DO. I am LAZY how is it possible I am working so much?
I ran around the place dealing with the woodwind children, telling them to put their instruments together and sit down. Running to the office to make photocopies of the music they forgot to bring. This was an 11am concert at the school so that the kids could do an assembly and watch what the orchestra has been up to.
The trumpets started off with a memorized christmas piece... they froze on stage and had to be coached by the trumpet instructor to get to the end. Then Bryce and Alyssa did What Child is This while Ms Polo and I played with them. They sounded great... we tried not to outplay them. Bryce's high G sounded so good. Talented kids!!! oh my gosh. haha more thunderous applause!
Then I conducted the orchestra and woodwinds playing jolly old st. nick and holy, holy, holy. I really don't know how I got all this responsibility but I was so proud of myself and all the kids involved. Putting on a concert is so much STRESS.
I need to slow down my life. The choir went on after the orchestra. I left before the choir portion (tacky I know) because I had to run to the music store. I had already seen it last week when we did the night concert for the parents. I went over to Bronstein's music and talked to one of the owners... his daughter goes to Church of the Highlands so we had a long talk. I told him I wanted to buy something for each of my flute students.
Originally, I was only going to get something for top 5 but then decided I couldn't leave the other 4 out on christmas =( so i spent 112 bucks at the music store because i didn't want to buy stuff they would just throw away. I let the kids take turns choosing... their order was based on how many strs they achieved through the semester. ... I bought 2 music stands, a book of john williams tunes, a metronome/tuner, a watch with the 12 chromatic notes instead of numbers, a silk flute swabbing cloth, a practice journal (which thankfully last place girl got MAUAHAHA), a book of christmas tunes, and a harmonica. One kid CRIED so hard because he was 3rd to last and didn't get what he wanted. Hot sticky tears streamed down his face because he didn't get one of the music stands. He grabbed a 12 cookie high stack of chocolate chip cookies and slumped in a chair as he cried and cried and stuffed his face... I took a picture of that. I'll upload later.
Since this semester was the first semester of the orchestra program ever, none of the parents had to pay to have their child attend the class. Starting in the fall they will have to pay. They are letting me be the flute instructor for their after school conservatory next semester. I can't believe how lucky I am to have such a sweet gig. I'll be getting 23 bucks for a 30 minute lesson. I have to make the most of it since I can only do it for one more semester before I have to find a replacement for myself. I'll be moving up to stockton for university of the pacific next semester.
THEN after that I rushed to get a pie from Shari's diner to bring to the dinner/rehearsal with my friends with whom i will be performing tomorrow... we're doing christmas carols at a few old folks homes... iuygfeuwiheowhywe uyfgewiufbiuwegfuwhr
Maybe if I journaled more often I wouldn't feel the need to write so much all the time. No time to finish. I really think about that quote, "An unexamined life is not worth living." I don't feel that way right now because I feel as if I am accomplishing so much... though I do know I could accomplish more if I took the time to be a little more thoughtful. I think that I am on facebook too much instead of livejournal.