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Day Seventy Nine (Year Three)

I taught today.  For what will be the last time for about a week and a half.  Knowing that feels weird.  I know I've only been teaching again for a month and a half, but it will still feel strange not to teach next week.

It was another quiz this week.  On chords this time.  My student did well, but not perfectly.  We're still working on getting chords to ring clearly.  I keep remembering how hard that was to get the hang of (and then, later, to get the hang of consistently).  I can tell that my student is starting to get frustrated that it's taking her some time to get the hang of it, and I really wish there was something I could do to alleviate the struggle, but the only way to make that easier is just to stay at it.  You almost have to get mad at it in order to conquer it, but telling an 8 year old that seems to be (at least right now) inviting a bit of trouble.

As a follow-up to last night's wondering as to what will happen for posts in the next week or so, I've got a list of 5 (including tonight's), so I'll be up late plotting those out and getting them set to post.  And I'm sure that, as I go, more posts will appear.

A good day, but a day that could have had a bit more music in it.  We're headed up to the lakes tomorrow.  We'll see what musical adventures tomorrow brings.

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