A memory that may have had a lot of
influence in me choosing my major is when I found out how much I loved to teach
children while working at the daycare. It all started with a memory, something
to push me into the direction, something that helped me realize that I want to
teach children music.
While
working at the daycare there were a few times where my boss asked me what I
could do to keep the children interested and busy while she cooked a meal for
all the kids. So I would call the children into the living room and hand a few
of them a guitar and the other children would go outside with the other workers
and play tag or something. I remember looking at the confused faces of these
children and each of them wondering what they were going to learn. As I taught
them the basics of fretting a single string I could hear the buzzing of the
strings from the children who were not holding the string down all the way and
then you would hear a child gloat about how they did it hoping that the teacher
would say good job. It must have been boring for some of the kids cause a
couple were staring outside wanting to play tag but there were a few whose
entire focus was put into the guitar they were holding. After a long while of
teaching them something I thought they would like, a couple of the kids could
play a blues riff.
It
was fun I got to play my guitar at work, I got the kids there to stop climbing
on everything, but I guess what made me smile the most was when the parents
came to pick up their kids and some of the kids would talk about how “I can
play guitar now! Trevor showed me!” The parents were happy and in turn my boss
was happy, although I still never got that raise I wanted.
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