Musicians' Perspective: Week 3, Day 2

We started the day filling out evaluations of our FIRST two weeks. These evaluations will be used to improve the project for future trips, to give us something to show to grantmakers (both past and future), and also to help write these blog posts! We met with Jay Gomez, the music coordinator, someone who we would become good friends with in the following weeks.

After lunch, we got to finally meet the music students! Since this week was basically the first week of the school year, they were all attending their first theory classes, but the theory teacher was kind enough to let us sit in to hear the freshmen perform. We already began formulating what we wanted to teach about and emphasize in our lessons and masterclasses. The students all seemed shy at first, but once we were out of the classroom waiting for the bus, they opened up and began asking us questions about ourselves, and about music in general. It was a lot of fun.