Day Tres

This week was interesting. We took a quiz in class and I don't really believe in the answer it gave me. It said I was more partial to white men. But I can't say from the bottom of my heart that as a Christian, this is not true. I love and treat every race and culture with the same love and respect.

Wednesday I was at the high school that I have been placed for Student Teaching. I stayed until their last block which was Band. Their first class was a younger string chamber orchestra, mostly 9th and 10th graders. I was given a syllabus of the class as an example and some work sheets that they take home. The teacher showed me how he takes role and puts in grades. For their second block I sat in on their electronic music class. The kids had projects they were working on so while they had their headphones in me and Teacher talked about his other classes. He showed me all the music they were playing for this semester and asked if I wanted to conduct any or play in any of them. They had a lot planned on their calendar  for this year and I'm really excited that I will be a part of it.

After lunch we had the advanced string chamber orchestra, as opposed to a full orchestra which includes band instruments. This group is much smaller than usual and what will be in there next semester. This is due to certain classes only offered at certain times. So they kids are broke up into trios with their classmates which is a great experience learning method for them because they will have to work together and really be in tuned in order to produce a good sound. One kid was alone because his two partners were not there so he and I went and played together and just did some one on one. We talked about music, played a lot, and got to know each other a little bit. Afterwards the teacher asked if he talked because he is very shy in class and doesn't talk much. But we hit it off which brought so much joy to my heart. I cannot wait to go back and I think I will be able to be there twice a week.