Ms Mok had to stay in school(AiTong Pri) last week to help prepare the students for their CNY performances and I've also requested earlier for this Thurs' lesson to be held on Wed or Fri, so we would be having her lessons today and this Friday.
Although she's given Renee a star after the 2nd bowing test on what she's learnt so far, she said that I'd really have to teach Renee on rythm of the 1/2 and 1/4 beat soon, arrgggh...
Today, Renee has began her 'finger pressing' on the strings for the high 'F' note which proved to be much more tedious as now she would have to control the hold of violin with purely her neck and shoulder only and co-ordinate the bowing with the finger pressing the strings for the various notes. This is a big step forward as per Ms Mok as she's told me on the last lesson that she won't start on this if Renee's not able to bow well on the 2nd exercise piece of the Suzuki Volumn 1(I've also learnt frm her today that Suzuki volumns are supposedly to be more advanced as compared to the European's). I had thought that one new 'note' would be enough for today but Ms Mok went on to 'pile' on her the recognition of pressing the 'B', 'C' and 'D' notes on the violin! Good thing Renee doesn't have to practice on them yet but then again, her next lesson is just a few days away... Renee had been very excited(she's said so herself) about learning new 'keys' today but with the finger hurting, she started to procrastinate her practice when we got home, hahaha.
Goodie Packs
After dinner, I decided to start packing up the goodie packs so that I'd have enough time to replenish 'stock' if any item's of not enough quantity.
I've bought lunch boxes for her friends, as I've had intended to buy pretty cupcakes(cos dun want her to cut cake twice, as advised by many people) for her to share with her classmates. The initial plan was to order those beautiful cupcakes I've seen on some personal websites but as majority of them are non-licenced home bakers and some are too pricey(cost more than a whole nicely decorated cake even and there's no point spending so much when there's not gonna be a celebration at sch),so I later planned to decorate them myself(here's a pic of what I've tried 1 Sunday a couple of weeks ago, a simple one) :
However, even though the design is simple but being new at 'creaming/icing', it certainly gonna take me abit more time than others to do up all 30pcs of them, so we dropped the idea so as to avoid the rush. W e'll just put goodies(well, in case u're wondering, the remnants shown in pic dun cover all that're put in the box, keee. There're M&Ms, creamy chupa chups, biscuits, chocolate layered biscuits, jelly bears, fruit jelly candies, jellies, etc), into the lunch boxes and we're replacing balloons with fancy pencils, heee :
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