Week of Nothing
I love the South and it's complete inability to function when snow hits. Forget monsoon like rain, anybody around here will drive in that. Put an inch of snow on the ground and I'm out of school for a week. It's good and it's bad. I've just lost and entire week of student teaching, but I got a week of break. I think I'd rather have been in school. We only have a month to learn the repertoire for the March 8th concert now. It's a little easier at MCHS because of the block scheduling. We have the same classes everyday for an hour and a half each. That gives them repetition and the time needed to learn the pieces.
I'm going to Jackson for sushi with Dan in a bit. I've been getting a lot of questions about that, and all I can keep saying is "no, we're not back together." If Dan and I want to make this friendship work, we have to agree to do stuff like this with no emotional consequences (hopefully). Friends should be able to go hang out together without having to explain it to the rest of the world. I just hope he's feeling the same way and not looking on this as an opportunity. We'll see.
I've got to look over the music that I'm introducing to the students on Monday. I'm so excited that she's letting me do Erev Shel Shoshanim and Chindia. Neither of them are very easy but the Hebrew is gorgeous and Chindia is a big crowd pleaser. Yay!
I finally decided how I'm going to introduce a practical study in my USO paper. I'm going to work up Chindia and maybe another piece using what I've found for rehearsal strategies in my study. That way the panel will know that not only have I analyzed the way a rehearsal is ideally supposed to be run, but I've put it (or tried to put it) into practice. That means documenting everything as I'm doing it though. I have to mark what does and doesn't work as I teach. That's a little difficult because you can't take time out of a rehearsal to write things down. They get antsy really quick.
Ah well, back to my new obsession: Ouran High School Host Club!!
I'm going to Jackson for sushi with Dan in a bit. I've been getting a lot of questions about that, and all I can keep saying is "no, we're not back together." If Dan and I want to make this friendship work, we have to agree to do stuff like this with no emotional consequences (hopefully). Friends should be able to go hang out together without having to explain it to the rest of the world. I just hope he's feeling the same way and not looking on this as an opportunity. We'll see.
I've got to look over the music that I'm introducing to the students on Monday. I'm so excited that she's letting me do Erev Shel Shoshanim and Chindia. Neither of them are very easy but the Hebrew is gorgeous and Chindia is a big crowd pleaser. Yay!
I finally decided how I'm going to introduce a practical study in my USO paper. I'm going to work up Chindia and maybe another piece using what I've found for rehearsal strategies in my study. That way the panel will know that not only have I analyzed the way a rehearsal is ideally supposed to be run, but I've put it (or tried to put it) into practice. That means documenting everything as I'm doing it though. I have to mark what does and doesn't work as I teach. That's a little difficult because you can't take time out of a rehearsal to write things down. They get antsy really quick.
Ah well, back to my new obsession: Ouran High School Host Club!!