A thing or two about violin

Lara is doing well with her violin. Even if some days we could only fit in a 10-minute quick practice (when I'm too tired to play or no energy to supervise), Lara is progressing well now passed the middle of book one. She is learning 'Andantino', 3 songs away from minuet 2. Bach's minuet 2 was the first violin song we heard when we sat in at a lesson back in Oct last year. I can hardly believe Lara is nearly playing that! The young fingers are very able - Lara can move her fingers faster than me now...

Lara went to a Suzuki violin funday a few weeks ago. It was for Book 1 & 2 kids, there were around 20 kids there. We met an experienced teacher Mrs Haywood (whom I was trying to get in touch with) there and saw how she taught. It was good value for only $10 one hour. Playing with other kids just made it more fun and the hour went very fast for Lara.

A small hiccup last week when Lara broke the bridge of her violin (she was being silly trying to play the wrong way). It meant no practice for 3 days, extra time spent to get the violin repaired on my day-off and $65 out of pocket (another shop was going to charge $95). Luckily there was a spare 1/8 violin we could borrow to do the lesson on Saturday morning.

At around the same time, I got a call from a teacher I spoke to earlier. She invited us to her student concert at her studio as she might have a spot next term. She has more advanced students, one of them played Vivaldi's Winter at the concert. She's located in Cherrybrook (a little far), but we will see what happens after the trial lesson.

Lots happening!

Spottle

We had the class pet 'Spottle' with us last weekend. Spottle is a fluffy 'giraffe' and he followed Lara to all her weekend activities.

First stop was violin at 8am. Lara played the two new songs - Allegro and Perpetual motions.



Secondly, we had ballet at 9.15am.
Lara stood straight-backed and tall and looked like she really enjoyed the dance.



Finally we had Lara's classmate Sophia's birhtday party at 3pm.
It was a carft party. Lara painted a t-shirt and cards, played dress-ups and had a slice of the rainbow cake.



And that didn't count Spottle going to the shops and coffee with us and had dinner with Grandma & Grand-dad on Sunday! Spottle (and us) had a busy weekend!