An Afternoon of Lessons

Tuesdays and Thursdays are long, but fun teaching days.  All afternoon and evening one student after another zips in, sits down and plays for me.  I love it so much.  I love how each person is so unique, with a brain that learns in its very own way.  This afternoon I had a super shy student who works super duper hard, another hardworking student that plays beautifully but gets intensely frustrated with her fingers, a student who has turned a corner and made some amazing progress, a student who, when I started teaching her last year, I thought might never be able to hold her fingers in an ergonomic way above the keys . . . but she can!  There was the student who is terrified about accompanying a choir for the first time tomorrow, the student who really doesn't like piano and has to take it because her mother makes her . . . but she tolerates me as much as she can.  There were two supremely focused kindergarten and first graders who are just flying through concepts, and an older student who used to struggle to concentrate for ten minutes and now concentrates for 20.  And there were a few more students too.  Students made me very, very happy.  And now I'm ready for a rest.