Bad Piano Teachers

I would like to take a moment to comment on the deplorable lack of good piano teachers. I was just watching my brother perform in a music festival competition. He is in grade 6 piano, playing against other grade 6 pianists, and the amount of kids who didn't even know something as basic as how to sit properly at the piano was abominable, and just a foretaste of badly played music. At this stage in piano I expected the playing to be much better than the music that was put forward. I do not blame the students. It takes a gifted and especially determined student to rise above the mistakes of a bad teacher. I do not say I am a good teacher, I have only been teaching for a year. I just think it is depressing how many people who play piano, or any instrument, think that just because they can play they can teach, and it is to the students's detriment that teachers seem to think that just teaching a student how to read music can actually be classified as teaching an instrument. Dear music teachers, please learn how to teach properly.

Dutch Blitz

Dutch Blitz with a bunch of tweens.

Loud.

Loud.

Loud.

But fun.

Hogan's Heroes

A laugh with lunch every day. :)

Pure Peppermint Oil

Apparently it scares away the spiders

Because

For spiders

Peppermint is deadly

$9.60 for 30 mL 

It better work

If it does 

It will be worth

Every penny

Change

I want to change

It's just so hard

When you're living in fear

And you feel ridiculous for being afraid.

But now it's out

And what they do with that knowledge

Will affect so much

God help us all.

Approaching Things

Life is busy

Work

Piano

Work

Piano

My piano teacher kept reminding me that music festival is getting close, and my song isn't ready.

Obviously she doesn't know me.

I did my best to not let that stress me out. 

It will be ready.

It always is.

My Sister is Getting Married

My big sister

Is getting married

I'm so happy for her

For them

I'm so happy

But it's kind of weird

I mean, she's getting MARRIED...

I'm also feeling bittersweet

Only 7 months until 

My life is radically changed

My beloved sister

Will move out of our room

This house

This city

No more big sister to depend on for everything

I'll have to do stuff myself all the time 

(Wohich will be good for me) 

No sister to mooch off

But she'll be happy

I'll be happy for them

And she'll only be an hour away

So I'll still see her often

And she'll always be my big sister

So Happy

So very happy

When that thing you've wanted

For someone else

Comes true :)

Blogging

It is tempting to abandon my blogs.

Because I have an ideal blog in my head.

But then I think of all I've written over the years,

And the thought saddens me, that all that would be gone.

But then

I could always keep this blog,

And delete the other one,

And start from scratch with that one.

But, if I really think about it,

I don't have time for that perfect blog.

So I will continue writing this one,

And my teacher blog.

And I will continue leaving my blog that was closest to my ideal

On the backburner.

Waiting for the day when I will have time for something regular.

Someday.

Determined

I am determined.

To get done everything I have written on my to-do list.

We'll see what the morning brings.