good afternoon
It's a wednesday afternoon and I am sitting at my desk in my newly rearranged office (the last arrangement definitely did not allow space for three beginning violinists plus me)--I should be finishing an arrangement for my string ensemble's rehearsal tomorrow, but I don't think it will take me too long, except for about one measure that's really not cooperating. I am in the middle of my fourth week of full-time teaching, and my second week teaching beginners. Can I just say, I love my beginners! I really did not think I was going to like them but I do, and that's good because I have something like 35 of them. And none of their violins stay in tune yet. This makes our beginning orchestra sound like chaos, but I think (thankfully!) the new instruments are slowly beginning to stabilize!....So here I am, a full time christian school violin teacher. I wish I could sketch in a nutshell what it is like. Just to sketch today would be quite a picture--the 8th grader running up to me in the morning beaming because she'd practiced overtime and enjoyed it; the 2nd grader who never focuses but this week learned a whole song on his own for the reward of a single skittle; the beginners who couldn't stop talking; the little 3rd grade comments on how I rearranged my room and did my hair; the 6th grader who forgot his lesson again but is brainstorming now for ways to remember; hugs and waves from my little kids as I walk through the halls; laughing at the sounds emanating from the office of the trumpet teacher next door; making similarly frightening sounds as my new cello teacher tries to reteach my technique; tuning instruments and fixing instruments; scolding students, praising them, laughing with them, finding new ways to solve their problems; sharing inside jokes and homemade food with my coworkers; setting up and taking down rooms; doing research during one free slot, phone calls during the next, and elementary crafty stuff the next. If you actually read all that I'm amazed; there's plenty more. Every day is different, every student and every coworker is different. I love my job. God is good.
posted by kathryn @ 3:17 PM
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