Oops forgot to blog!

Ok, so Annie reminded me about blogging about my teaching experiences. Thanks Annie! Well, what has been going on, my voice and piano lessons are going great I love teaching voice and piano and I can really hear a difference in some of my students voices! It's really exciting!! The St. Francis job on the other hand, I could live without. Thursday I went back to St. Francis to teach a couple of rehearsals, and found out that the instruments STILL aren't in to the school yet. So for the beginning band I just went over my expectations and the classroom rules, honestly I thought they would be a little more respectful since I was their student teacher last year, but it was the exact opposite. They thought that I was like their friend, and we were just their to have fun, I already had to enforce some of my rules and give out some pivots (it's a classroom management technique they use in the school, very effective). Then the advanced band was supposed to come in, I was very excited I had a lot of ideas for them. So they show up and my advanced band has 8, that's right, 8 people in it. Hold on it gets better, out of the 8 students in my band 5 of them are flutes, yes 5! What am I supposed to do with an 8 student band composed of 5 flutes, 2 percussion, and 1 trumpet???? If anyone has any ideas PLEASE send them to me. As of right now I am thinking of combinig both band and writing very simple parts for the beginning band, just so the band will be a decent size. Other than that, my life is going pretty well, I should be hearing something really soon about getting approved to be a substitute, I can't wait till I am subbing regularly and making $111 a day subbing, it will be really nice to add that money to my lessons and St. Francis job. Dan is opening his practice in the next couple weeks and already has some patients lined up! I'm so excited for him and can't wait to see his practice take off! Well that's about all that's going on right now, tomorrow I have to go back to St. Francis, hopefully the students got some of their friends to join band, I'll update and we'll see what happens, wish me luck!