reflection on tutoring

Today i had my first tutoring session with Michael. As he is going to have a test tomorrow, I focused on preparing him for the test. Using his textbook, i tested him on translation skills (as in I said something in English, and he had to write that in Mandarin). After the test, we looked at the mistakes he had made, and as we went through them, i taught him more efficient ways on memorising how to write certain chinese characters. Then i gave him a few minutes to look over his mistakes again, before i gave him a re-test. He didnt make any mistakes in the re-test, which made me really happy, as i felt like i had made an achievement.
This activity gave me the opportunity to TEACH seriously, and it not only raised my awareness of my ability to teach and my level in chinese, but it also increased the respect i have for teachers (because teaching can be a really tiring job...).
Overall, i thought this session went pretty well, but for the next tutoring session, i hope to be even better prepared for the lesson.

reflection on choir

on wednesday we worked on the piece 'oh maria'. At the start of the lesson we aimed to learn the whole of part A, but in the end we managed to do both part A AND B. The part for soprano was quite easy compared to that of Altos and Bass in this piece, so i did not face much difficulties when learning this piece. I learned to be more confident with using my voice, as ''opening the throat'' is quite important when singing this song. Next time, i would like to improve on body movements - meaning, i hope i could FEEL the song more, and move freely n expressively while singing it.
During choir, i feel really good when we've spent the whole lesson learning a part of the song, and at the end when we combine everything - the effect is sooo amazing. It feels like hard work is definitely worth it.