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Tuesday March 21st,I saw some good improvements with the vocal jazz
ensembles today-- better attitudes, faster learning.
I am getting tired of riding the bus down to Jeonju
two days a week-- the bus ride is so long, and the
seats are so uncomfortable! I'm developing a
permanent backache.
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Wednesday March 22nd, I really miss playing with people. I realize that I'm
surrounded by jazz musicians now, but it's actually
really hard to meet up with the other teachers--
everyone's schedules are so different. I hope that I
can start working out some jam sessions soon-- it's
been more than a year since I've played jazz with
other people!
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Thursday March 23rd, Today was the first of the improv tests. It went both
good and bad. The second and the third classes
actually absorbed a great deal of information during
my lecture (much more than I thought they were
getting), and some of them surprised me with good
melodic developement, good rhythm, etc. But the first
class . . . they were disastrous. And they were the
ones who I thought had understood the lecture the
best! I was also really upset to find a lot of
absences in the third class. I had warned them
specifically that if they weren't there for their
performance tests, that they would get zero. And yet
6 students from the third class were missing for their
performance tests. What hurt the most was that 4 of
them are my private students as well. I guess I have
to remember that I'm dealing with college-age students
now, who are only learning now how to take
responsibility for their own educations. I guess it's
not really my problem if they want to take the zero
instead of trying.
A friend from Daegu was supposed to come up tonight,
but had to cancel because he's sick. I was kind of
disappointed-- I really haven't met very many people
in Seoul yet. So instead, I went to the (sort-of)
Jamaican place in Itaewon and got (sort-of) jerk
chicken.
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Saturday March 25th, Today I went on the hunt for a new cell phone.
Kwang-youn, the student who lives in my building, took
me out to help me find a new one-- they're more
expensive than I realized! Anyway, I didn't even end
up getting one yet, because it's Saturday, so I have
to wait til Monday (but still have to give my old
phone to Ryan and Lindsey this weekend-- it's in my
old director's name). But the woman who owns the shop
we were in just happens to be Kwang-youn's aunt, and
as we were leaving, she stuffed a wad of cash into his
hand, and told him to take me out for lunch. I really
can't complain about free galbi lunches . . . Also,
she's going to give a little discount on the phone.
So later in the afternoon, I got on the train for
Daegu. I met the crew at Ariana's, the
all-you-can-drink and eat for 15,000 won brew house in
Daegu. Not really worth the money ultimately-- the
beer sucks, and the live band is even worse. Oh well.
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