Rainhat – the band

School and stuff

Whoopsie, I just noticed I haven’t posted anything in almost two months. How did that happen? School has kept me not so much busy as just preoccupied. The course I’m on is so weird. It was supposed to be a full time course, but it really isn’t. I’ve had about three lessons per week on average, barely anything at all to do for weeks at the time, and then one or two weeks that suddenly throw so much stuff at me I barely have time to sleep. And then back to doing almost nothing…
The classes and the disposition of the subjects is really strange too. I’m studying to be a flute teacher, so one would think that flute methodology is a fairly important class. It’s about how to teach the flute specifically, how to teach specific techniques, how to plan the courses, etc. But no. I had 5 lessons this semester, and that’s it. 5 hours. The only class that has actually been running throughout the whole semester is conducting class. Conducting is fun and all, and good to know something about if I ever need to lead an orchestra or a wind band or something, I guess, but I’m not a conductor. I’m not studying to be a conductor. I’m a flute teacher. I will be teaching one or two students at the time. So how come I have 15 x 90 minutes of conducting this semester, but only 5 x 60 minutes of flute teaching class? It confuses me.
Research methodology is a fun one too. We had an introduction in February, where the teacher asked us to come up with ideas on what to write an essay about for our third semester. At the next lesson, she gaves us a stack of papers about 1 inch thick and told us to read it by the next lesson, which was planned for the end of April. Aaaaalrighty. If I just wanted to learn everything on my own, I could have done that without going back to college… This is such a weird course, and so utterly disorganized. I guess I’m supposed to be a certified teacher by the end of it, but right now it feels like that is going to be on paper only. I don’t really feel all that much more competent now than I did when I started…