Princess' 1st Violin!

We were both woken up by Renee's "Papa, are you going back to sleep?" hahaha, thinking or rather, wondering what day it was today... Remembering that it's Sunday, I hopped up to make ham+cheese sandwiches for all of us. I guess she must be excited about meeting the teacher too, :)

Suddenly recalling that it's been a while since Renee's had her macaroni, I decided to cook it for her lunch which she got daddy to feed her thereafter. She managed to have her shower before we left for the violin teacher's premise - for her to 'interview' Renee personally and judge for herself if Renee's ready for the lessons.

It took us a few 'rounds' before we finally found her place(geez, it's pretty hot - her area) and Renee, whom had been prep-ed before that she has to be friendly to 'teachers', smiled and said hello to her when greeted, :). However, midway from the 'interview', Renee got upset, either due to the heat(as her room's air-con auto switched off) or that she didn't get to 'play the violin' as expected hahaha.

About the teacher/lessons

Alisa(or Allysa?) has 5 years of teaching experience and is currently teaching, most of her time at Ai Tong Primary School. Youngest student she's had is of 4 - 4.5yrs old and that makes Renee her youngest student I supposed. Also, she will be adopting both the traditional and suzuki method to teaching Renee.

As she's young, I'm required to sit-in with her, to pick up the 'teaching' so that I could guide Renee on her daily practice at home.

When we were leaving, I was asking how Renee should be addressing her and she said "Ms Mok"(great, 'cos teacher Allysa sounds kinda 'long' heee).

We were guided to go to the Gramercy Music(which we went after our lunch and...nap :D) to acquire our princess' first real-life violin. Renee was very happy and U should see how her face lighted up when the people there fine-tuned her violin - it 'makes sounds'! hahaha.

After we've paid for the violin, shoulder rest, book stand, suzuki music volumn 1, the lady whom had passed me the other merchandises, handed the violin personally to Renee and said : "Congratulations to you, here's your first violin". Renee hadn't want to take over the violin as many people were looking at her and she pretended that it was heavy hahaha, then when she was holding it, daddy said : "oh, should we take a picture?". I didn't bring my camera along, so I didn't response, heee. Anyway, I guess it'd seem a little awkward to do so as there were quite a number of people in the store, :).

Back home, Renee immediately tried to play the instrument and was quite sad 'cos she doesn't know how yet, but when I took over and managed to 'create' some sounds out of it, she was happy again. Not for long though and she began to fuss : "I don't know how" and we had to get her to keep the violin and told her she'll eventually know how to, after she's gone for her lessons.

From the videos of some children's performances, she's picked up on how the instrument's to be held- and yes, we've got the 'norm' sided one as alternative wld hv to be custom-made(and also not sure if teacher's ok to teach alt side anyway, most aren't...)

Oh ya, we've let her put on her new pair of shoes which fits juz nicely: