Freitag, Januar 27, 2006

Der letzte Tag - und das Geschank ist fertig! ^_^

Finally, all my assignments have come to pass!

Still have to teach and accompany tomorrow morning, but that's usual routine, so nothing to whine about. I bade all the choirs goodbye! :) Finally all is over - and I'll celebrate it with a Haruka moment!!



I only have Sharon's and Miki's concerts left to deal with. It's still stressful, but things will get better without the choirs. A LOT BETTER.

Today was my last day with the primary school choir. I prefer the primary to the secondary school ones - perhaps because deep down I am still of their age. Seriously, I feel more natural and at home coaching primary school kids. It has only been two sessions with the primary school choir, and I felt attached to them already. For today, I worked through their competition piece during the first half. After the break I decided not to go through that piece again (because once Lehrerin comes back next week they will have enough of that piece, lol... Those poor children...) but let them sing through their old songs. I got them to "throw" me their scores; I sight-readed all while they sang along. It was almost 3.30pm so I told them to choose their last song - and that turned out to be "Like An Eagle". I don't know what was with me then, but either I was really emotional, or because of the moving lyrics (it's about saying farewell to someone and telling the person his/her guidance and presence will never be forgotten), but I was at the edge of crying. I didn't, of course - because if I did, I wouldn't be able to sightread the rest of the song! Yet, in my heart I was telling myself - these dear children know not of what they sing. And what a song to sing, when it would be my last day (who knows when Lehrerin would call me back again!) with them.

A pleasant result (and reward) from all these choir-coaching this week - the students actually prefer me to Lehrerin! Yep, the students say that themselves. But I understand that's because she was really too strict with the students. She's definitely having a professional attitude for all this, but I thought it's still a little too harsh for the students.

And I'll definitely miss the primary school choir. It has been a memorable experience and a journey of self-discovery. Because I've never expect myself to be able to communicate and relate to young kids so well.

Farewell, my children...

posted by empress @ 7:00 PM