I started playing the viola in EC-4; I remember my mom getting me from my class each Friday at 12:30, walking together to Mr. Meneses' classroom and enduring 45 minutes of "tortura china" along with frustrations and wonder at the noises I could make. Apart from the torture aspect of the classes to get my position correct, I remember the motto "practice makes perfect". I will guiltily admit that I was not the strongest follower of the motto, but sometimes I did practice, and when I did, it got closer to perfect each time. Just like practicing the viola, Blendz sales are getting close to perfect. At the end of our last sale this past semester, Ms. Juhasz came up to me and said "you've improved so much since the first time you sold; there was a lot more shouting going on, now you're really calm." I can completely agree with this. The first time we sold (and many times after that), setting up took us approximately an hour and 30 minutes, cutting it very close to opening time. And even though we took a long time to set-up, we were still missing things when it was time to sell. However, during our last sale it only took us 40 minutes to set up! We had completed everything so quickly, that we didn't know what to do for the hour that we had to wait before we could start selling. I remember our first sale as one of excitement, joy and some sort of stress. There were only 3 people manning the stand while the rest of us were either asking people questions about our first smoothies, taking pictures or observing the crowds' behavior. It was a whole new experience; exciting and exhilarating. We were allowed to practice over the last couple of months and we got pretty close to perfect. Unfortunately, our perfect didn't come around as fast as would have been helpful and we're on break right now, not really practicing. Two months is a long time to not be practicing, and it's a thought that scares me. It's not that I think that we're going to forget all the skills that we obtained during last semester, I just think we might forget how good we got and how well we can do. It will take time to get back into rhythm and it's a fact that annoys me, especially because I don't know what to do about it. #help?
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Corey Topf
1/13/2015 09:21:49 am
Caro F! Cool connection to your viola classes, and the way you tied it all together is brilliant. Here's some more feedback: https://diigo.com/078nhi
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