2012.3.9 - friday

         I was really sick on monday so I missed school and one session. Today, I came to class almost late because there was this wedding tent extending out until the road in the usual route I took to school. It was especially annoying. It made the whole road very stuck even though I leave the usual time. I almost did not catch a lift because they were already shut down. However I made it just in time. It turns out that they were already learning another song. The teachers did not have a suitable cello part, there were only scores for violin, flute, and piano. So in the end I couldn't join in to play the new song yet and just practiced the old one. Mr Sadrakh was making the cello part for the song using the Finale program so I can play it next time.

2012.3.2 - friday

           Today we all came into class and brought out our instruments to practice the song we gotten last time. It is an Edward Elgar song called Salut D'Amour. The sheet music given to us was a piano score. I had to make my own adjustments to the sheet music myself for me because I need to read using the bass clef. Apparently they did not have one ready for the cello so, with the help of my private tutor I made the adjustments accordingly. It's a fuss to have so many pages though, the flipping is hard. I played quite well today, but I haven't been able to play until the fourth page in coordination yet.

2012.2.24 - friday

           Heidy, Bryan, and I did our Romantic Music slide presentation today. We finally did it and thankfully it was a success. I hope we get a good enough score for it. In the end of our presentation we had to submit our booklets. In the booklet, i did 10 pages as instructed. I talked about Romantic Music and the powerpoint presentation did help me start off since by then I already know things about it roughly. In the booklet I just need to go a bit more in depth about it. We also filled in reflection booklets about our assessments. In the end, Mr Herry said that we need to update our blogs because it is inconsistent and it will be checked.

2012.2.20 - monday

           Today is the day that we are supposed to be doing our presentation. My group and I are ready as ever and we have already worked on it together in my place. We were done with the presentation really really early actually. Right after Ronaldo, Verena, Yohanes, and Hashfi are done with their presentation, it was supposed to be our turn. However, we experienced a major technical difficulty which was that the powerpoint presentation program at school is the old version, while the one in my mac desktop is the newest one. We tried converting it with a Ronaldo's laptop but his powerpoint was an older version than mine. So in the end we had to do it on friday, together with the submissions of our romantic music booklets.

2012.2.17 - friday

          Today, we were given back our results for the quiz we did before. I am satisfied with my results, however, i was really annoyed by one careless mistake I did in the definitions. I knew by heart that accelerando was gradually getting faster, however, I made a careless mistake and wrote that as gradually getting louder and I'm really annoyed by that one mistake. everything else was good. After giving back the paper, mr John gave us photocopies of a song that we are needed to perform for the class chamber orchestra. However I think the numbers are odd since there is only one violin, one cello (me), one flute, two pianos, and the rest are guitar players. I really wonder how it will sound in the end. It's odd.

2012.2.13 - monday

           We had our music assessment (quiz) about the natural, harmonic and melodic minor scales today, and in the quiz we were also told to answer some terms. I think that I did really well because I answered all the questions and I was sure about them. I hope I did not make any careless mistakes. Luckily I knew all the definitions of the words that were given. I even knew the word that the teacher just talked about and I luckily listened to what mr John was saying because most of the other students didn't know what it meant. I submitted my paper in the end when the time was almost up because I kept checking the scales to see if I accidentally wrote something wrong.

2012.2.10 - friday

            Today's class was focused more on revising what we learned the other time. I have also somewhat forgotten some things we learned. But after a few minutes it all came back to me and I remembered what we were learning about. Having class discussions are an enjoyable way to learn for me because everyone in our class are interacting and we also have laughs at the same time so it's not so boring. Since everyone is involved I understand better. Then, mr John tested some people to write on the board who doesn't quite understand it yet. He asked me a few questions in class as well, and that was also quite a good thing because I managed to answer which means I understood well.