I have been tagged for this Student Challenge Meme by Vanessa at Mr. Miller’s Classroom Blog.
I glow with pride after I finally learn a piano piece that I’ve been working on. After I’ve spent weeks learning the different parts of the music, the moment when I can play the whole piece start to finish is exciting. It makes me feel good that I have accomplished that.
What makes YOU glow with pride? People I’ve tagged:
Arwen, Jane, Orion, Jack, and Noah
by: Luz A. Villa
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School starts on Monday, but my summer isn’t over yet. On Friday, I had the opportunity to meet the composer of a piano piece I played for a state competition. But not only did I meet him and listen to him talk about how he writes his pieces, he asked me to play for him! It was the coolest experience! He said that I played it just as he had envisioned when he had written the piece. It meant a ton to me!
On a different extreme, I am sorry to say that King Monarch did not make it. Nature did not want our noble king to reign. 
I hope you are having a great week! Don’t forget to sign up for the Student Challenge that’s beginning in September!
Even though I haven’t been doing regular lessons this summer, I’ve been keeping up playing piano in general. You see, I have a complicated wrist. I have a cist (sack of liquid) hanging off of the tendons between my wrist bones, as well as dorsal wrist syndrome (where the dorsal pain fibre sends random pain signals to the brian). I’m going to be getting surgery in October, but for now I’m dealing with the pain caused by this combination.
So for piano this summer, I have been playing at church. I accompanied the preschool choir in June and this weekend I am playing with our praise band and accompanying a singer during offertory for Middle School Youth Weekend. I am a classically trained pianist, but for these accompaniments I am having to read chords and not play exactly what’s
written on the sheet of music. Even though I had a little bit of instruction with my jazz lessons last year, it’s a very different technique and requires more concentration when you are playing.
Are you trying anything new this summer?
Student Challenge has been one of my favorite parts of blogging through Edublogs. Miss W. and Ms. Waters teach you so much!
Student Challenge March 2010 has officially begun as of today. The first challenge is to write a post about why students and classes should visit your blog.
Students and classes should visit my blog because I think that my posts are interesting. On my old blog, I posted more about knitting and reading. On this blog, I think that I am going to be posting more about jazz, piano, and music. I think that I want to be a church organist when I grow up, so music is taking a larger role in my life than before.
Readers could learn about jazz, piano, and music from my blog. They also could learn about me and my interests.
One thing that I am trying to do to improve my blogging is add more multimedia components into my posts. I think that this will make my blog more interesting because there will be videos, animations, and pictures to look at; not just words to read.
What do you think? Is my blog interesting? (Honesty is accepted!)
Student Challenge March 2010 #1
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