vacation is almost here!

December 12, 2007 at 10:56 AM

I survived another middle school concert (no t-shirt). Actually everything went pretty well. Only one of my kids skipped (insert practice feigned look of innocent oops here). One of my viola students managed to bring his sister's 1/4 size violin instead of his viola (like I am buying that story). So I tuned it down to viola tuning, and he got to look ridiculous. We had the high school strings join us, so we had a cast of thousands, playing things like "Winter Wonderland" and "Sleigh Ride" while it was a ridiculous 80 degrees. The concert also included chorus, band, and dance. And, like after every concert, my student who is also in dance, left her violin, assuming someone will get it for her. I get to repeat it this afternoon, so my favorite class is being babysat by someone else with problem children. I found an excellent article called "Travelling the Blues Highway" which I am sure they won't appreciate; in fact, I am sure they will be singing the blues about it (insert "I'm for real" or "GOLLY" or "she's trippin' already" here; the louder you say it, the more effective it is). Just trying to survive until vacation!

I have been reading the discussion on high achieving children and plan to blog about my own perspective at some point, but now it's time to wake up my own crew.

From Pauline Lerner
Posted on December 13, 2007 at 6:34 AM

Hang in there, and count the days until Christmas break begins.

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