Although Renee's afraid that she might not get to continue with the course(in order to make her work harder, we'd told her that if she doesn't get a full As result from this exam, we'll not let her continue with the course), she's still rather slack with her practices. Although this 'threat' had not exactly yield the result we wanted - she's still lazy, but she's shown that she would really like to continue - the thing that puzzles me is, why then wouldn't she work harder?.....
She's done rather well for her 2nd Masterclass and had played pretty nicely yesterday during her Studio-class. However, she didn't do as well today. Why? Wanting to catch her theory teacher for her exam papers, I'd told Papa that we'd go on time(we'll leave at 1:30pm since the exam starts at 1:45pm) but it was a mistake, 'cos not only didn't I manage to catch the teacher(y/day and today), but being early, she met her friends and her mind was full of 'play'. What's worse was, standing outside the examination room, she saw 1 of her friends playing with the violin, she attempted to follow suit. We stopped her on time and told her "No, the exam's inside this room, you will disturb them". Although she did listen initially, but, when the teacher came out, trying to stop the person whom was causing the din, she still tried to 'copy' her friend. That coursemate of hers was smart enough to hand the violin quickly over to the parent but our silly Renee, had to insist on taking over the violin from her Papa, whom had been holding her violin for her all this while! Seeing that she was the one holding the violin, her teacher told her not to play it - Such silly misbehaviour of her had caused her to take the blame! Needless to say, this upset the both of us, so we reprimanded her and not knowing the actual situation(some were not ard us when it happened), many have thought that we're stressing her on the exam and someone had even deliberately commented loudly to his child "nevermind, don't stress, just play/treat it like your normal practice" - geez, this is what we've always told Renee too, haiz... We're angry with her 'cos her unacceptable behaviour had gotten her into 'trouble'(it's good to 'teach' her now as she'd be attending pri sch soon and she's bound to meet more of such people). With us scolding her and feeling unhappy that she's unable to play with her friends, she didn't perform as well.
Actually, we do not really need her to score As 'cos we're already very happy with what her teachers had told us so far, but we needed her to understand the importance of working hard as talent/gift is merely a fraction to the success of mastering the instrument.
Remembering her teacher's reminders, we quickly went and bought tickets to the Nafa YT concert, last minute, after her exam. Not wanting Rachel to disturb the others(in case she cries), I decided to give it a miss and waited for them at my mom's. Later, Papa told me that they've met her teacher at the concert hall and was told that she didn't do so well at the exam as compared to yesterday's Studioclass, but .......... Anyway, it'll be a good 2 weeks til we get her official results and til then, we'll have to decide if she should continue with this learning...
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