Term 3 Week 11

• Theory Class

- Tuesday: Today was the assessment day of playing our own arrangement of a Russian Song 'Katyusha'. I was grouped with Rilya, Pinka, Nigel and JB, and we used Rilya's arrangement for our assessment. At first, we did some practices before doing the real assessment. I had to fully memorize the sheet of arrangement because I had to have some more time to memorize them completely. Luckily, I was able to fully memorize the arrangement plus the intro and the ending, so all of our group mates were able to do the performance by memorizing the arrangement. I think our group did a great job in our assessment, because most part went well as we practiced. There was a very little mistake in the ending though. When we practiced, we planned to play the ending directly after repeating the song 4 times. However Pinka and I had a pause after repeating the song 4 times, so when Rilya played the beat with her guitar twice, Pinka and I were able to start the ending together and finish the performance safely. I don't think anyone noticed that we had that mistake, and we didn't seem to have a mistake, so I was glad that Pinka, Rilya and I had a good communication and team work even if we weren't talking to each other during the performance. 

- Wednesday: Since we are all done with our assessments, we basically had a free time for this session. We first discussed about our due date for MDW booklet and our reflection and videos on our blog. Honestly, I am very stressed with this stage, because I am trying my best to finish them on time, and I never submitted them late, however my teachers are keep giving me the pressure to finish earlier, and they are offering me to submit them earlier than the dead line, even though at first they arranged the schedule for us to take more time to work on them. 

- Thursday: I didn't have music class today because I had a personal schedule related to my family. 

• Instrument Class:

- Tuesday: We used our theory class today to practice for our arrangement of 'Katyusha' before we perform the real one, so we used the instrument class today to perform our real assessment in our theory class. Therefore technically we didn't have our instrument class today.

- Wednesday: Since we also had a free time in our theory class after finishing all of our assessments, we also had a free time in our instrument class too. Therefore I went to Rilya's class (guitar class) to play piano with her, and I also learned some chords and techniques and a song by playing with guitar. I was always hoping to learn guitar, so I was very happy that Mr.John and Rilya supported me to play the basic things with guitar.

- Thursday: I didn't have music class today because I had a personal schedule related to my family.