Day Cuatro

This week I was able to go to my old high school and help teach orchestra. I also took a couple students aside who needed help. There were two students who had just switched from cello to violin and from cello to viola. It's hard to explain what someone has to go through and their thought process behind changing instruments if you yourself are not musically inclined. It's different for me because I've been playing violin for twelve years so I just have to learn to read a different clef. In layman's terms; I have to read a different language.

I have also taken on six private students this year. Three violinists, two violists, and a girl who is playing both. One of them are in college and has played piano for years so she can read music, it's just playing the violin itself is difficult. Another student is in high school but because she does not have time to be in orchestra this year she wanted to take lessons so as to not get behind when she reunites with them next semester. The rest of my students are under the age of about 11.

In class this week we focused on poverty. A lot of people don't realize how bad it really is. We have people starving daily and countries who don't have a fraction of what America has. Even in America we throw most of our food away. One third of the worlds food ends up being thrown in the trash. Even here in the county I grew up in.

We also watched a video in class relating to poverty. I thought the video was interesting and very realistic, especially since most of my friends growing up lived like the family in the video. I've been to many houses where there was trash everywhere and broken cars and walls. I just never understood how people can let this happen. We have people who can't afford a new outfit in a class sitting nest to students who buy the newest shoes and phones as soon as they come out.