Ellie had her first violin lesson today. She's already behind 4 lessons since we found out about the UGA Strings Project a little late. The master violinist gave Ellie her very own teacher today for a private lesson to catch her up with the rest of the class. While Ellie was practicing, I, of coarse, was reading a book/eves dropping... The teacher asked Ellie the names of all the different parts of the violin. To my jaw-dropping amazement, Ellie answered almost every question correctly! (How the heck does she know that???) The teacher said. "Very good Ellie, I can tell you're familiar with the violin." (Nope, this is her first exposure to the violin or any instrument for that matter.) The teacher said, "Any questions?" I raised my hand and said, "How did you know all that Ellie?" She said, "I read it in the music book yesterday." She just got the violin and the music book yesterday! She for some reason has been drawn to violin music. I was changing the radio station one day and she screamed, "STOP!" I said, "You want to hear this?" It was orchestra music. She loved it! Then I got this CD called, The 12 Chinese Girls' Band. She loves it and it's all string instruments. I don't know how well she'll be able to play yet, but she sure has an appreciation for orchestra music. As for her lesson today, she absolutely loved it!
Emma played with her stuffed animal while watching Ellie do her lesson. I said, "Emma, what do you think? Do you want to play the violin too?" She said, "Na, I'll just take karate so I can beat up my brothers." That's my girl!!! We're all soooooo different, isn't it awesome!!!
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