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Post by princessmoose on Nov 24, 2006 20:38:11 GMT
Today I do anyway  . Had my favourite pupil, Sarah, at the end of today for 40 minutes, gave her some new music and some flute cds. She kept wanting to play with the cd and apparantly really liked the pieces - result . I gave her a lift home, stayed for a drink and ended up staying for tea, and not long got back. I decided to capture today's enthusiasm, and she got her flute out and we played loads of music for ages, it was great, and she sounded good today, perhaps she has been practising . I love her and teaching to bits  . |
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Nov 24, 2006 22:55:06 GMT
Nat, that was a brilliant read. You are my sort of teacher, girl. Go Nat. Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. |
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Post by AnotherPianist on Nov 24, 2006 23:16:59 GMT
I gave her a lift home, stayed for a drink and ended up staying for tea, and not long got back. I decided to capture today's enthusiasm, and she got her flute out and we played loads of music for ages, it was great, and she sounded good today, perhaps she has been practising . That's great . I have to say you're starting to sound like Steve already  . Next stop minature heros  . |
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Post by princessmoose on Nov 24, 2006 23:19:22 GMT
Actually, I do owe 2 pupils some chocolate for kind of getting the meaning of 'rubato' correct in a rehearsal last week. I said I'd give them something if they got it right, because I could have bet my life on them not having the faintest, but two got something vaguely like it so I had to  . |
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Post by Dulciana on Nov 25, 2006 11:01:09 GMT
Because my earlier, younger pupils tend to eat more than their share of the sweets and I find the jar unexpectedly empty later on, my later pupils' notebooks are full of IOU's. But I don't deal in Heros - they're too damned dear! It's Smarties ("now with no artificial colours", for the benefit of those parents who complained that their offspring were hyper for the rest of the evening!) or Starburst Joosters - the prefered option for most of them!
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Post by YetAnotherKlavierist on Nov 25, 2006 12:05:28 GMT
"now with no artificial colours", for the benefit of those parents who complained that their offspring were hyper for the rest of the evening! Reminds me of a discussion I had the other day about child obesity, when someone remarked that perhaps child obesity rates were lower when we were growing up because we used to get hyperactive off drinking blue pop and run around like mad burning off calories . |
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Post by jod on Nov 25, 2006 18:41:08 GMT
I love teaching too Nat. When I took a pupil to her Prep test, I ended up getting a lovely pressie from her parents. I now teach her younger sister too. The parents are great. I like Christmas and Easter when they get my younger pupils get a small pressie.
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Post by Dulciana on Nov 26, 2006 1:56:33 GMT
I had a weekend in Paris a few weeks ago, and found, in the supermarket beside the hotel, these boxes of gorgeous chocolates for less than 2 euros each, so, not having room in my bag, my unfortunate travel-mate carried 21 boxes home for me for the pupils' Christmas presents!
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Post by SuzyMac on Nov 26, 2006 6:59:48 GMT
I love teaching too  I dealt in paper stars for the most part...Milky Way Magic Stars on special occasions B) I have two medical students - haven't started giving them chocolate yet though ;D |
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