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“This can’t be that hard,” that’s what we thought, the son and I. The son was six and he just finished his Music Appreciation and the teacher was asking if he wanted to learn a new instrument. The teacher showed and played the piano, guitar, flute, cello and other instruments and the son chose piano. I thought I’d learn to play piano, too. So we asked Evgani, the Russian teacher if he could come to our house and give us some lessons.
Evgani came once a week and the son would have an hour’s lesson, then me. It wasn’t that easy! We were supposed to practice during the week, but because of other activities (karate, football, sleep over, play dates), we were not able to practice. Evgani would come and both of us would play in a haphazard way. We managed to play tunes in the end, but I was so embarrassed that every time he comes, I’d put the washing machine on so as to create some other noise. After a year, we both gave it up and moved on to do other things. Oh well.
For: FLASH FICTION FOR THE PURPOSEFUL PRACTITIONER: WEEK #21 – 2016 by rogershipp
here’s to always trying new thing! some we will fail but always learn from it! your son is adorable 🙂
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thanks 🙂 he’s getting married on Tuesday! time flies ❤
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oh my!!! congratulations to you all! what a great day it will be! all the best 🙂
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cheers and have a great weekend! 🙂 ❤
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The piano is definitely not an easy instrument to learn! Nice sweet tale 🙂
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Thanks Angie x
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Such is life! It’s a big club!
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Thanks Graham x
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It was worth a try! It’s great that she realized how futile the lessons were for both of them and decided to discontinue taking them.
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Thanks JC x
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We’ve had so many false starts like that as well — it’s totally the way of the world these days for most children to be so engaged in activities they cannot enjoy what they are doing NOR dedicate the time to practice and perfect. Great submission this week 🙂
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Cheers x
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😉
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How wonderful that the narrator wanted to learn with him. I liked the fact that he, the narrator, was telling the tale and not the little boy. That made the story all the sweeter.
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