Friday, November 30, 2007

Lizzie's diary, 25th November 2007

Wonderful news everybody - today Lizzie got the results of her Grade 2 piano exam (she is my pupil) and she passed with flying colours... a convincing distinction of 134 out of 150. Good ol' gal.

She's allowed me to post her diary entries for this week. It makes for some very interesting reading I hope you'll agree. Remember that you can post your comments underneath each post by clicking on the link that states how many comments have been left. These will will printed out and copied into the scrapbook.

Diary entry: 25th November 2007

"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."

Arnold Bennett


"God this is scary. I don’t quite know how I feel about doing this. Exposed. Something I’m not good at being, but if I don’t do it now, when am I ever going to just f**king do it (in the words of the master). I’m amazed by the responses to my e-mail – I just don’t want to disappoint anyone now. This has got to be worth a try – anything has got to be better than admitting to failure again and going into that unit. I just can’t do it – but what’s the alternative? Stay like this for the rest of my life? I’m not going to like it but I’ve got to do it – like writing this diary – it’ll get easier won’t it? Surely by trivialising the whole thing it’ll make it more do-able. After all it’s pretty straightforward, and just because no-one’s done it before doesn’t mean it can’t be done. Nothing is impossible until you’ve really tried. And I don’t think I have really tried. Yet."

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