Suzuki Spring School

We spent a whole day at Abbotsleigh today attending Suzuki Spring School. The program was more intensive than I thought. Lara was in Group V8 (Book 1 up to etude). She had a tutorial lesson at 9.30am, repertoire lesson at 10.20, enrichment lesson at 11.30 and 'play in' at 12.20. We had a short 45-minute lunch break before the closing concert tuning and the concert itself at 2pm. We left home early this morning and didn't get home until 4pm!! I am exhausted and I didn't even play any violin!

This turned out to be a good distraction for me. I was very busy with work in the last 3 weeks that I not only neglected my motherly/wifely duty somewhat, I was in this 'work rut' that I stopped appreciate the important people/things in my life. Being surrounded by kids and violins today made me forget my 'little work problems' and cleared my head a little.

Lara didn't really want to play in another concert at the beginning of the day. But when asked what the best part of her day was, she said 'playing in the concert"!. I only managed to record half a song at the end (camera technical issue-insufficient memeory!). This song 'Perpetual motions' had great significance because it was also the song Lara played at her debut concert last week at her teacher's house (Lara's new violin teacher holds a student concert every term. I'm so glad we found her, but this is another story). At that concert, Lara 'forgot' one part of her song, luckily re-gained her composure during the variation part of the song. This is just like life I guess. Sometimes you play well, sometimes you don't. You go past that and life goes on!