First Blog: Hollllla

To be quite honest, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to address/who my audience is/what I'm actually doing so... Here we go :)

Well, not much progress has been made in my knowledge of the cello since the 20-time project officially started last Friday. It was kind of a disaster, actually. First, we figured that in order for Elaina to teach me how to play the cello, we'd have to acquire one. We made the journey down to the orchestra room... and 20 minutes and two arguments with the administrators later, we were still empty-handed. It turns out that students are not allowed to take any instruments out of the room (even though it had already been cleared by the orchestra teacher earlier that day... Yes, I may still be a little bitter). So, yeah. I should probably get my hands on a cello sooner than later.

In other news, I was able to rent out a flute for Elaina and get her a couple of beginners books a couple of weeks ago. Let me just say, SHE IS A NATURAL. You have to know that it is very rare for someone to make a sound out of the headjoint the first time they blow in to it, and she got a nice sound out of that sucker. A week later, she was able to play the B-flat scale, Jolly Old St. Nicholas, and Yankee Doodle. You could say I was born to teach (or Elaina taught herself everything... either is fine).

So, I'm really hoping that we can get a hold of a cello soon... time is ticking. Also, I'm just really excited to get started learning how to play a stringed instrument :)

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