New erhu instructor

Yesterday's CO practice was a total disaster!! The conductor arrived even before all the new scores were distributed. Even so, some instruments did not have scores for certain pieces, we (Serene, Janet and I -- the temporary score I/Cs) were not told that we had to make sure all the scores for the same piece were arranged by the same arranger so all instruments start with the same key, CO library of scores did not have the orchestral scores for the pieces we were going to play, conductor wasn't happy.



Lesson learnt: DON'T distribute scores on the day of practice itself to avoid a mad rush/mess, arrange the scores for each instrument (each individual) beforehand, try not to give it to them by sections or they'll complain it's missing, etc.



At least the laoshi was nice enough to say 第一次是这样的啦。She didn't blame us for the terrible mess yesterday.



Only Janet and I were present from our section so there wasn't any gaohu, zhonghu, or erhu1. Just 2 pathetic erhu2s. Needless to say, mistakes were amplified and unclarity was more obvious. Same thing, conductor wasn't very happy.. Sorry la I can't help it, I only picked up the instrument this March. He went on to nag about how the new instructor (SCO concert master, mind you) will not be pleased with our standard and that we have to buck up. He's wrong about the former.



The new instructor is so freaking nice, it motivates me to work harder. He corrected all my holding and fingering because my foundation is weak, it was the J3s and 2s who taught me.. and most of it was self-taught. The previous instructor didn't coach me personally like this one did. At the end of sectionals, he even said I'm a fast learner for someone who's been playing the erhu for only half a year, even though I thought my performance was shit. Yeah, I'll practice more to avoid disappointing this new laoshi!



HOho. Both Janet and Xuan Han know the password to my laptop.

There was a break in between sectionals and we met for awhile to discuss the farewell agian.

Shawn was happily tapping away on the touchpad of my laptop.. 15 photos were then taken -.- most of them being candid shots.

AND AGAIN, after sectionals we stayed back to discuss farewell details and then I went to get _________ with Pei Yan.

Now I have to redo my EoM. Nothing can get more irritating than that!

I hope it's finalised. Once, and for all... it sucks when you keep feeling ________.