The school bus home has turned into a daily music session as
the children ask us to sing, sing along to songs they know, perform their own
songs to us and even take small ukulele classes! I have even been honoured to
hear the debut of a new song which one of the girls had written specially for
me!
Outside of school I have started teaching a girl from church
piano. For a few years she has been working pieces out by ear with impressive
results! Her dream is to be a pianist and she practices very hard. She also
wants to write a song for her parents’ wedding anniversary which I am helping
her with – adorable!
Working with the younger children in school is teaching me
to be more dramatic and communicate through whole body gestures. It is amazing
to see the difference in their response if you who them magic beans that are
only jazz hands compared to magic beans that are jazz hands plus a footstep!
On Saturday Cat and I will start working with a choir from
the Sacred Heart School who have asked if we can come and run a few rehearsals.
We are really excited about this!
Teaching was very difficult since last Friday because I lost
most of the hearing in one of my ears. It is very
odd teaching music without full hearing! The school nurse saw me a few times
and eventually sent me to hospital which terrified me! I needn’t have been
worried – the service was excellent and with no waiting around at all I was
sent to an ENT specialist who got to work and now I can hear. Hooray!
The keyboard in our room of the apartment is getting lots of
use as the Indian girls we are staying with are learning little bits and pieces
and are teaching us a beautiful hindi love song which I’m working out an
accompaniment for. It is such fun! They are also teaching us some classical
Indian dance which is amazing!
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