Little Boxes

So, random updates.

I switched into the fifth form at school because I'm older than all the kids in the fourth (where I was originally placed). My schedule is now filled with classes that seem like an utter waste of time. Actually, school in general is seeming like a huge waste of time right now. I have physics in my schedule, but seriously...I ALREADY TOOK IT. The math I'm in is Math B (death). I don't want to repeat things. It doesn't hold my interest.

School is seeming more Christian by the day.

I joined an orchestra. My first rehearsal--the second overall--was last night, and it was enjoyable enough, I suppose. Unfortunately the orchestra is comparable in size to AYO, and the conductor's attention to detail is not quite Andrewsian. CYMers will get the reference.

I also had my first flute lesson yesterday. I would like to be positive here, but it sucked. Really. The teacher seems like a very nice person, but the lesson...ugh. Just ugh. I was asked to play something I hadn't prepared (the first movement of the Mozart Concerto in G) and then he gave me feedback that contradicted EVERYTHING I'VE EVER HEARD. Okay, it's nice to get opinions from many different people, but when one person's ideas are in direct opposition to the views of three other highly capable teachers, one begins to wonder. Maybe he's right, but I haven't known him long enough/found out enough about his background to trust him above three other people. I played a chromatic scale for a warm-up and the tone above high A was absolutely terrible, but he didn't even touch on that. He went after my stance (...what? I have NEVER been told to stand a different way, especially not in the awkward position he encouraged.) and--AND!--how I hold my flute. There are many people who tilt their heads to the side and hold the flute at an angle when they play. That's fine if it works for them. Their lips are still parallel to the tone-hole, whatever whatever. I, on the other hand, hold my head straight and my flute pretty much parallel to the ground; I've always felt that to be a position of greater power and more freedom of motion. Dude, if you're going to change my stance "for more freedom of motion", I really do not need you to pull my flute down at a ridiculous angle WHILE I AM PLAYING IT. Eurgh. And he wants me and Julia to play the same pieces and études. Okay, my idea is that different people learn differently and have different strengths/weaknesses, so they should be given different approaches in their lessons. Seems logical, no? Not everyone fits in the same little box.