IT'S FRIDAY!!! *worship worship*

[candyland]

So...my cooperating teacher isn't here today. He's off judging in Norfolk. Nice of him to tell CS and I >.>;; So yeah. We're flying solo today. I'm directing choir (she's playing), and then I've got junior high study hall...and then WEEKEND, W00T!!

Yesterday, PK was coming to observe me teaching the whole choir period. So I got my lesson plan all pretty and shiny and then sat back to get increasingly nervous as we drew closer and closer to classtime and she wasn't there yet. The bell rang--she hadn't gotten there. Long story short, she had misjudged the time it took to drive here from campus and walked in ten minutes late. Oh well *shrug* And then my pretty shiny lesson plan didn't fill up the whole class period. Whoops. So I had to improvise a bit. All in all, could've gone a bit better, but could have been about a gazillion times worse.

Part of my problem is that when I'm in front of a group...my hearing goes out the window. I can't hear problems as well as I can when I step back and just listen. I've been told that training the ear to hear and differentiate problems can be the toughest thing to do, but...GAAAAAAAAAH it's making it hard to run effective rehearsals here.

I also officially met the junior high choir yesterday. I introduced myself and had them sing through the piece I'm going to work with them on. We sang through it, and then I started to have a little fun...



The choir has a surprisingly good sound, but the girls are...well, kinda wimpy. They need to sing out more. So after that first run-through, I told the boys to have a seat and the girls to do what I did. So I held up my music; they did the same. I closed my music. They did the same, although they looked kinda confused. And then I told them to put their music under their seat...and stand on their chairs.

I also took this opportunity to tell everyone that I didn't really like a lot of talking during rehearsal. So if a person was talking, I would assume that they knew their part inside and out, and thus whatever I was saying to another section did not pertain to them. So they would come up to the front of the room and demonstrate their mastery by singing their part for the group. By themselves. Loud enough for us all to hear it. Needless to say, they behaved themselves quite nicely for me.

So anyway, I've got the girls standing on their chairs. I'm trying to get more sound out of them--I actually wound up drawing a really crappy-looking monster on the board and telling them that the monster kicked their puppy. One girl looked absolutely stricken at the idea! And I told them that if that monster kicked their puppy, they weren't going to whisper at it. They were going to let 'im have it! And I told them to sing at that monster like he kicked their puppy.

The sound doubled.

I think I made a pretty good first impression with that group--I certainly felt like I had their attention for the time I was in front of them, and they seemed to be responding to what I was saying. Heh...maybe I should be a middle school teacher ^_^

I didn't do much else with them, but I'm looking forward to having more work-time with those kids. I'm going to pull more sound out of those girls if it takes me until the end of my placement here! And I'm really looking forward to getting into that song :D

Best part? I turned the choir back over to TG (my coop), and all the girls hopped off their chairs. He started them on another song. Three notes in, he stopped and told the girls to get back on their chairs because it improved the sound. VICTORY!!



I'm thinking about doing something different with my hair. Like...taking a couple inches off (not too much, though!) and maybe doing side-swept bangs...and maybe highlights? I don't know. It's so blah right now D: Half the problem is that I can attempt to style it, and sometimes even manage to twist it into some sort of an aesthetically pleasing configuration. BUT I CAN'T GET IT TO STAY IN PLACE ALL DAY!! ;o; So...I might try and go in tomorrow morning. Need to talk to my mom about it first.

And everyone needs to go worship strawberrychan because she is a being of so much awesome and win because she made me the most awesome banner/layout for my fic-journal (which is really really really close to actually opening). SO EVERYONE GO MOLEST WORSHIP HER AND HEAP HER WITH DRUGS LOVE AND PR0N!! My repayment for this lovely piece o' work will be a fic, of course. A Heiji/Kazuha smut-fic.

I've been on a writing kick the last couple of days, though. I finished the next chapter of my MKR story (and it hasn't been a year--le gasp!), and I'm partway through four other things. Fic-dump ahoy, me hearties! :D I might actually go whip out my notebook and scribble for a bit now before lunch, since I really don't have much else to do >.> *is bored*

In the meantime, I really can't wait until three-thirty. I'm more worn out at this placement than I ever was at my elementary one x_x Oh well...que sera, sera!

Comments

[soc_puppet]

I almost thought that cut was going to hide details about a song wherein a monster kicks someone's puppy o_O... Which would actually be a pretty cool song, now that I think about it.

"Well I got to my feet
And I rolled up my sleeves
And I told that monster what-for
Then I punched him real hard
In his big scary eye
And kicked him right out of the door~!"

...Or something.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

*laugh* I demand that you write that song in all its wacked-out glory! :D

[soc_puppet]

*salutes* VERY WELL THEN! I shall do my best to have it written and up sometime tonight :Db

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

You = my hero ♥♥♥