The senior home was a little rough for me yesterday. I didn't expect it to be easy, but I don't think it went so well for me. I didn't want to talk or interact at all because it was hard to see the world function and continuing on while I had lost someone so close to me. Fortunately though, I was able to see how life should be appreciated and cherished. The seniors seriously gave me insight on to how I should cherish my life and enjoy the things I love most which is music. I should do these things so that I am able to have love and support and established in life. It not only gave me a positive outlook on my personal tribulation, but also on how I should be thinking about my career and what I should be leaning toward in life and that is my education and my relationship with others. I cannot thank them enough for how they helped me, unintentionally! All I can do is continue to give my services to them and make this worth the while for them! They seem to really be engaged and enjoying it, and I see the smiles on their faces when we come in, especially because some of them have no family or friends outside of the facility to really show their love and appreciation to. That is why I am so happy to be a part of this project and I am truly happy to see what is in store on our last day there!
New Vocab Words! I. Appreciation- Reconnaissance II. Unintentionally- Involontairement III. To Cherish- Cherir
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It is almost impossible for me to stay sane and be able to reflect on something at such a low time in my life. I have not been here for the past couple of days and I don't really have much to say about what is going on in the classroom. I am extremely drained now and although I am feeling this way, I do still want to participate in the senior home project. I feel that it will help me relieve myself of what is going on in my life and allow me to focus and give light to someone else other than myself. I haven't involved myself in anything lately and I haven't been here to know exactly what is going on. I can't seem to think straight, but I know that I would like to at least go to the senior and get my mind off of things. I feel that what they have to offer will help me coop with what is going in my life now, and I surely do hope that I am right.
New Vocab I. to focus- mettre a point II. drained- epuise III. participate- participer C'est presque impossible pour moi rester sain d'esprit et reflechir sur quelque chose a un triste point dans ma vie. Je ne suis pas ici pour un quelques de jours et je n'ai pas dire au sujet de le projet. Je suis extremement epuise maitenant, mais je veux aller a la senior maison. Je senti que il ira aider moi avec des relief et aide moi mettre a point. Je veux participer dans le projet, je pense que cette sera aider avec que va dans ma vie. Merci... Now that I have performed and gotten my nerves out of the way with my performances, I am able to help out a little with the other activities that we will be involving ourselves in. So far I see us doing well with managing our time at the senior home and in the classroom. The performances aren't so much of a problem, but what I am questioning are the other activities that the ROTC is doing with the seniors. I haven't seen much of an art thing going on, and that's why I specified it in my last reflection I stated that they should be doing something that doesn't involve too much instruction. I've noticed that many of them want to do things on their own time and their own pace, so they tend to not want to get involved with the much more instruction based activities. I also don't see any work with the scrapbook being done. There has been little to almost no talk about what theme or set-up we want to use and that is a little odd. Aside from complications with the smaller projects, I think we should focus on trying to get more pictures of us and the seniors. We have a lot of individual photos of them, but not much footage of our interactions and time during the different "tea talks" and such. These are things I am just seeing that are making the rid a little less smooth, because it seems that we are always scrambling a day before our visit to finalize things. In all, we can do so much better than we are! New Vocab! I. Impliquer- to involve II. Footage- sequences III.Reflection- reflexion Maitnenant que j'ai joue, je peux aider avec les activites. Pour l'instant, j'ai vu nous faissons tres bien avec les temps a la senior maison et dans la class. Par contre, les activities ROTC ne sont pas tres spectacular. Les seniors surtout ont ecoute a la musique parceque cette implique trop d'instruction. A part de ca, je pense que le scrapbook n'est pas tres succesful. Il n'y a pas beacoup de conversation au sujet de scrapbook, et il n'est pas beacoup de sequence de leur temps dans le 'tea talks' et autre choses. Je ne veux pas nous nous percipitons un jour avant leur visit. The seniors loved every bit of us! It was such a successful day and I rally felt like we made them sooo very happy! Right when we came in their faces lit up, and they were so welcoming. I have become so familiar and happy with them and how positive some of the are when we show up. They really enjoy the music and you can tell that this is something their spirits long for. They want to enjoy the music and activities we bring, and we are doing such an awesome job spreading that love with them. My performance wasn't what I wanted it to be, however, it was enjoyable and thanks to Otto, it was more than I could really ask for. I thought the Ave Maria, performed by Sheila and Otto, was amazing and I saw that some seniors even requested it to be played again! That really let me know that they were engaged in the performances and really listening to the music. It also showed how talented we are, and how we really give them something to forward to every week. We had complications with the microphone again, and it did not project the violins like we wanted it to. I later found that the microphone wasn't even on, and that is what caused the piano to overpower the strings for the most part. Aside form some technical difficulties, we managed to pull off a pretty awesome day at the senior home!
As we prepare to go into our second day at the senior home, I am a little nervous about what is going to happen. I have been cleaning up the Czardas piece, which I have played a while ago, and I felt that on my part it was going great. However, with the pianist that was supposed to accompany me, things were not looking too sweet. To say the least, I was very unprepared and feeling like this was a train running with no direction. Fortunately, Otto was able to step and help out with this part of the performance. This was an awesome moment for me, and it really helped spice up the performance because in a matter of ten minutes we ran through the whole piece and switched some of the piano and violin parts up (Otto is playing the harmonics). Now that this is being taken care of, I am feeling so much better about performing for the seniors. I am almost certain that they will enjoy this piece because it is very different from the songs we have played on the first day. The senior home project, aside from the minor delays we have had, is going very smooth and we are doing a great job transitioning, although I wish there was more communication between the ROTC staff and the musisians so we are making sure there are no incidents like the one I had. Otherwise, we are going to have an awesome time! Harmonics- Harmoniques Pianist- Pianiste Accompany- accompagner (to accompany) Comme nous preparons aller dans nos deuxieme jour a le maison de seniors, j'ai un peu petit peur un sujet de qoui arriva. J'ai range mon musique. Dire le moins, mon accompangneur surprendre moi quand elle n'a pas arrive pour pratique. Heuresement, Otto a arrive a le sauve. Cetait tres cool parceque le tout musique dans son endroit. Maitenant cette a pris soin de, je senti tres bonne! I think the Jazz combo did an awesome job out there yesterday! They definitely put their best foot forward and rocked the home, however I think the transitions could be better. We had a problem with the mic and the flute's projection. The sax overpowered the flute and the piano wasn't well balanced with the rest of the instruments (sound projection wise). I think this had to a lot with the timing and set-up. The jazz combo wasn't very efficient with their transportation of the instruments, nor did they really have enough time to properly set things up. aside from this, we did have a very successful music fest and the seniors really grooved with it! They enjoyed jazz combo's performance and you could tell that they wanted to just sit and listen to their performance. The really didn't want to do activities, they wanted to enjoy the music. I am not saying they were not successful, however the activities really (i think) weren't for the seniors. They just want to chill, and if the activities are done then they should be activities that don't involve too much instruction. We should find some alternative activities that involve more free interpretation and hands-on activities so that the art an music don't clash.
Clash- affrontement efficient- efficace projection- projection Je pense que jazz combo fait un imposant travaille hier! Ils ajourtent leur plus de pied en avant! Par contre, je pense que les transitions peut etre mieux. Nous avons eu un probleme avec le mic et le projection de flute . Le sax a maitrise le flute et le piano n'ai pas ete equilibre. Le jazz combo n'ai pas ete tres efficance avec leur transport de les instruments. Je pense cette a beacoup faire avec les instruments. Les seniors ont appreciate le music et tu peuvais dire wue les seniors savourais avec ca! Ils appreciate le musique. Ils a eu relaxer et si les activities faissont, ensuite ils n'ont pas trop de instruction. |
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