Update #1

So I have a lot to catch up on from this last month, and not much time to write.  I´ll start with a bit here and add more when I have time…

After Peter left for Santa Cruz, the next three weeks now seem like a blur in my memory.  Probably my brain filled to beyond its capacity in this sudden immersion of learning a new language and job that it couldn´t make sense of much for those first weeks :).  Since all the kids have school in the morning until noon, all of the music classes happen in the afternoon, and my schedule has stayed pretty much the same:

***first some definitions…  Vientos=wind instruments (we have 2 clarinets, 2 flutes, and 1 trumpet), Preinfantile=the begginners string class (about 8 kids), Infantile=the middle level string class (about 10 kids), Coro=choir (about 25 kids), Teclado=piano/keyboard (about 8 kids), and Orquesta=orchestra (about 22 kids)***

Monday: Vientos (2pm), Infantile (3pm), Coro (4-5:30pm), Orquesta (6-8pm)

Tuesday:  Preinfantile (2pm), Infantile (3pm), Coro (4-5:30pm), Orquesta (6-8pm)

Wednesday:  Vientos (2pm), Infantile (3pm), Teclado (4pm and 5pm), Orquesta (6-8pm)

Thursday:  Preinfantile (2pm), Infantile (3pm), Coro (4-5:30pm), Orquesta (6-8pm)

Friday:  Vientos (2pm), Infantile (3pm), Coro (4-5:30pm), Orquesta (6-8pm)

Then during the mornings I usually work on planning my classes, getting things organized, and fixing instruments (we have to replace a lot of broken strings here because the cheap ones we use break more easily).

Well, I´ve got to get going, more later….

~ by Kristen on November 21, 2009.