Every Wednesday, my violin student A.P. has her lesson 6th period. Anyone else would probably get a tired lesson from me, but A.P. keeps me laughing; we feed off each other’s jokes. Here are a couple things she said:
Translation: “The word is just on the tip of my tongue!” and “That half note is unexpectedly longer than I think it is!”
J.K. is another violin student who often has funny things to say (and faces to make). A week ago, she saw “Schedule” on my board and asked, “How do you say that word – Shedul….” I pronounced “Skedjul” for her; she asked, “Why can’t words just be spelled how they sound?” Then we talked about “chaos.” Then this week, she had a cough. I asked her if she knew what she was coughing up, then realized it was another great word with a strange spelling!
“But Miss Musick, why can’t it be spelled like it sounds?”
Last Wednesday, D.P. came into her cello lesson and played a couple scales. I said, “I think we’re ready to move on to 3 octave scales. We’ll start with C Major.” She had the best response: “Yay! I get to do 3 octave scales! I’m so excited! 3 is so much better than 2!” She was also thrilled to be learning thumb position. Today in Intermediate Orchestra we did a 1 octave C Major scale, and she voluntarily did the third octave – just to practice her thumb position!
K.N. is a beginning guitar student with colorful hair – last week it was pink, and today it was black with a blue fringe. During her lesson today, I compared the change between the D7 chord and the G chord to a spider attacking its prey. She wasn’t fazed by the analogy at all; in fact, it turns out that spiders are her 2nd favorite animal (or creature?).
Last week, I told B.K. that she could have guitar lessons. She literally jumped up and down and yelled excitedly, “Yes!! I get to have guitar lessons!” Right after class, I heard her loudly telling another student, “I get to have guitar lessons with Miss Musick during 6th period every Monday! I’m so excited!” Today we had our first lesson, and she honored me by saying that I have “ninja fingers.”
Ninja fingers or not, I’m definitely enjoying the colorful (sometimes literally) students that God has blessed me with. I’m so excited to teach them!
