A Lesson and a Victory!

Yesterday was enlightening!

  

A Lesson:  In my elementary music class, my students learn all about reading music, writing music, note values, how to sing, how to play instruments, how to express themselves, and how to teach ME!  Once a month, I mix it up with teaching my students about a composer and then showing videos of that composer's music.  Yesterday, I taught them about Antonio Vivaldi.  Since he wrote so much orchestral music, I decided to show the students a video that my parents took of me.  In this video, I was a high school junior and was playing a violin solo in Spring (one of the Vivaldi's Seasons).  After I was done showing it, I asked the students if they had any questions about Vivaldi.  One student raised his hand and said, "You were a lot skinnier when you were in high school!"

Ah, the sweet, innocent honesty of a child!  I replied with, "That's not a question, but a great observation!"  In my mind, I was saying, "Thanks for the added motivation, kiddo!"

 

A Victory:  Only about an hour after the motivational comment in my classroom, I had a victory!  Alright, quick background of the school that I work in: I work in a school filled with healthy people, which is motivational in itself.  Several are smaller than I am....again, motivation!

Alrighty, back to the victory story.  I was walking down the hall when a student came up behind me and said, "Hi, Mrs. ______."  The name that the student said was not my name.  When I turned around, the student said, "Oh, sorry, I thought you were Mrs. _______.  You two look a lot alike from the back."  SA-WEET!  The lady who the student was referring to is smaller than I am.  Perhaps I'm starting to look a bit differently to others.  I'm obviously not back to my high school weight yet, but I'll make it soon enough!