Saturday, December 6, 2008
My very first day of work as a piano teacher has began today. I had two students today, who are siblings. The challenge lied not very much in providing the answers or musical knowledge to my students' questions, but in finding my students' house. Does that imply anything? Well, not so on someone who's alert and know the way. However, that is the BIGGEST CHALLENGE to a complete blur queen whose sense of direction is negative infinity, someone.......... like me.
Indeed I was so right. I got lost. My students' house was at Mount Faber. Before the day, my parents did tell me the way on how to get there, thoroughly. Yet fate always does play a cruel joke (well, there is this saying, though I personally feel that fate lies in our own hands, it is just decided by how we handle it. But since I STILL GOT LOST anyway, well, so whatever). When I got out of the MRT station, things turned a hundred and eighty degrees from the way I'd thought. I totally had no basic idea of finding the way. I consulted a few residents there on the way, whom all said Mount Faber Lodge was right up the mountain in Harbour Front. On a mountain? Well, since all of them said so, thus perhaps it was indeed right. I climbed all the way up the very steep hill, almost getting an asthma attack.
Then I got enough...
I approached someone else and asked the was once again. They told me Mount Faber Lode as not on the mountain, and showed it to me on the map which I was holding! Great. This is just so great. I ran all the way downhill (perhaps rolled down). To my great frustration, I took a cab there. Indeed, it was NOT on the mountain!
My students are two adorable kids, who are not Singaporeans. Judging from their look and English accent, I guess they were from either Australia or England. For the five years old girl, she enjoyed telling me stories throughout the lesson, which I had to then drag her back to the music world. The boy, who was eight years old, was more obedient. He was very fascinated with the diploma music score I showed him. I've heard from their mum that besides piano lesson, the girl even has ballet lessons! Wow such a busy child. This brings me back to my own childhood memories, when I used to take drawing lessons, dance lessons and some sort of ballet and calligraphy lessons. Alright, perhaps she isn't the only busy child. (=
Well, since so many people around me are from England, including my bible teacher, I guess perhaps I should pick up some Engligh accent too! LOL
4th mvmt; The Grand Finale
9:29 PM
