A Personal Experience

     My post today is going to be about something personal...

     As you may know, I attend a singing workshop once a week. Now we are not having classes due to the fact that the teacher is sick and classes have been suspended.

     Anyways, what I wanted to share with you is something that I feel sometimes when I attend these classes.
My singing teacher is a very young person, in fact, she is as old as I am. She started this singing workshop last year in May and, from there onwards, we have not progressed and improved much.

     When the workshop began, we were more than 50 people attending it. By the end of the year, I think that we were 20 people, more or less. The workshop is meant for people of all ages. Actually, there are two timetables: earlier on Fridays children attend the singing lessons. Later that same day, from adolescents to older people are put together in the class. 

     The teacher has a really beautiful voice and, most of us, do not. The problem is not that. The problem may be something else and here it is one of the problems I think that affects me sometimes and makes me stop going to the workshop.

     We have been practising this song "I believe in you" (I don't know if you know it) sang by Celine Dion and Il Divo. Imagine, I told you that most of us do not have a nice voice. It is a difficult song to be learnt and we seem not to be able to achieve good results. This lack of results is what makes my teacher become angry and be in a bad mood every single class.

     Many times, when we attend the lessons, I make some suggestions or give my opinion in relation to something. I am respectful (or that's what I think) and I do not try to pass over the teacher's authority; I just try to help by giving ideas so that the song works. Well, I actually should not say anything at all because I am answered rudely and I end up feeling really bad since it is not MY fault that the song does not work and, also, I try to be as responsible as I can (I mean, in relation to attend the workshop regularly).

     I think that even though we, teachers (because, even though I still do not have my degree, I am already working as a teacher) have our problems and bad days and bad moods, we should not take it on our students. They are not the ones to blame and, if something is not working then, we should try to sit down and reflect upon it so as to see what we can change.