First day of Spring · Wednesday March 21, 2007 by Lily
Today was spent doing Maths in the morning and carrying on doing the Adult Literacy papers in the afternoon, with music practice fitted in between. Music lessons are going well now and we listened to a recording of the first violin exam piece that is played far faster than R can manage at the moment. I am hoping his piano teacher will be the accompanist for his violin exam but we don’t know yet. I feel confident with her.
Sometime, I’ll dust off my ‘cello to play with ds although he’s now better than I am. I restarted lessons after a 30 year break when I received a small legacy that enabled me to buy my own ‘cello. That was just before ds started home ed and then we had grandchildren and granny to help care for so that meant time for practice disappeared and I stopped taking lessons. I have a copy of John Holt’s “Never too Late” to read when I have time, in which he talks about learning to play the ‘cello in his 40s and 50s.
The evening was spent with ds on the phone to his friend for a long while. What do teens who are monosyllabic most of the time with parents find to talk about for an hour? It’s the most natural way in the world of increasing language skills though. Apparently she has done her grade 2 theory and is in top set maths at school so she’s offered to help him, that’s good news!
