Last week of school, part un
Yesterday was my last piano class. I got there early because I was too antsy to stay home. I'd practiced a lot over the weekend, save for Saturday, because I thought maybe the teacher would want me to go over some of the songs I'd already done but at a faster tempo. However, when I realized I couldn't really play the current song I was working on at a decent tempo, I said screw it and focused on that. I got it pretty good, actually, but the three times I played through it with the teacher (it was "Alexander's Ragtime Band" as a piano trio but played as a duet) I kept messing up in the same spot. He also had me play it for the class and we both messed up within sight of the end. I was the only one who played for the class. When we had the other teacher, we all played for each other around midterm. Most everyone showed up yesterday; Weird Kid did not. Oh, darn. I half expect him to show up tomorrow. I'll be there, because I have my final composing lesson. I stayed after class and worked on my piece like I normally do, and I basically made all the changes to the camp song that I'd wanted to make. I think it's much improved, even if I didn't make all the changes Mr. C initially suggested. What can I say, even though a section of the trombone part is difficult for them, it's the sound I want (there are a lot of changing eighth notes in their counter-melody at one point). Plus, it's doubled in several instruments. Tomorrow my plan is to get there at my normal time, like I still have piano class, and work on printing out the parts. I've gotten them all on one page apiece, like when the parts were handwritten. About half the parts were on two pages when I first printed them and the music looks like it's large print--weird.
Today in French we had a review. We were supposed to have taken the five practice tests via the website and then come in with questions from that; my only question involved a verb (lever) that I kept coming across but had no explanation as to why it takes an accent in some forms. We were told that it's a verb we'll learn about in second semester French, and the teacher was frustrated that it kept coming up in the book and in the homework before then. We went over a few things and then broke into our little groups to play the verb game. We've done this before; we roll a die, land on a pronoun (je, tu, il, etc.), and pick a card to see which verb we have to use to match it with the pronoun. Or something; my brain's a little fried. I mean, the game was fine, but after class I went to the computer lab to work on these French cheat sheets (basically, the vocab organized into a way I could handle it) I've been typing up for much of the semester. I was there for three and a half hours. I did not expect it to take that long. The good news is that they look nice and should be a help to me when I study, plus they include pretty much everything we've learned. Of course, now I don't want to look at anything French for a while, but too bad. I have a test on Thursday.
Today in French we had a review. We were supposed to have taken the five practice tests via the website and then come in with questions from that; my only question involved a verb (lever) that I kept coming across but had no explanation as to why it takes an accent in some forms. We were told that it's a verb we'll learn about in second semester French, and the teacher was frustrated that it kept coming up in the book and in the homework before then. We went over a few things and then broke into our little groups to play the verb game. We've done this before; we roll a die, land on a pronoun (je, tu, il, etc.), and pick a card to see which verb we have to use to match it with the pronoun. Or something; my brain's a little fried. I mean, the game was fine, but after class I went to the computer lab to work on these French cheat sheets (basically, the vocab organized into a way I could handle it) I've been typing up for much of the semester. I was there for three and a half hours. I did not expect it to take that long. The good news is that they look nice and should be a help to me when I study, plus they include pretty much everything we've learned. Of course, now I don't want to look at anything French for a while, but too bad. I have a test on Thursday.