Jandrea...so far

 Found an old piano piece of mine! Judging by my handwriting on the piece, I must have been in elementary then! I tried playing it again and brought back memories of struggling with my piano lessons. Now I know why I gave up on my dream of being a concert pianist someday! Haha!  But thanks to my first piano teacher at age 6, Sr. Cecile Belen, SFIC and my long suffering piano teacher until high school, Ms. Tessie Serrano, I can at least learn pieces on my own and play music that I like ! And that really, really warms my heart!

 I’ve made sure to take most of these things into consideration when I crafted my syllabus and requirements for this semester! But the numerous changes have resulted in a lot of anxiety in me, day in and day out! Am I doing things right? Am I doing enough to be an effective teacher? Am I asking students to do too little or too much? I think it’s time for me to lower my expectations of myself and just try to make the best of the situation! A lesson I should learn from all these is that I have to be kinder to myself during these not-so-normal days!