I was teaching my new refugee transfer student (TM Allen Lieb via Ed Sprunger) and helping her with some basics. It is so difficult to be a transfer student; surroundings and semantics are all different, approval need is high but connections with non-verbal cues are skewed and everything is skeewompus. It’s a [...]
I saw this when I went to the marketplace to get the materials to make my new three year old student’s box violin. It looked interesting to me; I liked the colors.
Students were great today – once again! Way to go guys!
In other news, Sarahintampa is reminding me that flock is [...]
…are absolutely gorgeous. I am so blessed!!! One of them is getting ready for a graduation recital and she is so prepared! She raced through two of the most difficult pieces today at a breakneck pace, so there is just that little problem, but she is really ready for this! The recital is on the [...]
GENUINE is talking about winning the 350 million dollar lottery. He asked about 5 things people would do with the money (after donating to charities etc.).
Here was my answer:
5 things to do with 350 million dollars
Pay off our house, my parent’s house, my in-laws’ houses and buy my sister a house [...]
Blogging blogging everywhere and not a thought to link.
I’ve redone the layout of another site of mine but daresn’t link yet until I get the OK from the site I “borrowed” the design from… It isn’t an elaborate design, but she might have qualms. I’ve written her email. And I did change it quite a [...]
I have Schradiek on the brain this morning. It won’t stop. Schradiek is a repetitive form of left hand Pilates that two of my students are doing (Thursdays and Fridays). It’s great for forming the frame of the hand and controlling fast notes. Also intonation. Maybe I should ask my Monday star student to do [...]
I’ve taken on yet another student. Sweetpea’s little sister Annie who will be 3 years old this week was jumping up and down with excitement to start her violin lessons. She had been saying , “Mommy, practice me on the violin!” for about 3 weeks. She had her first lesson and it was half an [...]
It has been brought to my attention that “Suzanne’s Blog” is a pretty unimaginative moniker. And it’s true, it is.
I am overwhelmed by the whole blog naming process. I used to blog in the 90’s with the name Open Pages, then I renamed it Suzyumi (a conglomeration of my name with the [...]
 From Yoko
 My set of fives…
5 minutes ago: I was talking on the phone to a student’s father about our various group classes and activities for the month (Halloween Play In and Harry Potter Super Activity).
5 hours ago: I was sleeping and dreaming.
5 days ago: I was teaching the two girls [...]
