As quite a few of you already know, I taught school for 35 years, American History and Spanish. My Spanish classes had to do an oral quiz every Friday which consisted of a conversation with a classmate...topic assigned by me. My students for the most part prepared quite well for this but once in a while a "kid" would come up and have a total "mental glitch"...I was pretty understanding about this and would allow them to sit down recoup and try again after a couple of others had done theirs. I always "understood" but honestly I had forgotten what it felt like! Well, last night I was brought back to my school days when I was the one with the mental glitch. Totally forgot what I was in front of the class for....I heard Steve say we were doing Dark Hollow and that's all I remember...next thing I knew I couldn't even remember what the chords were..
..and we practiced well in little room 5. The point I'm trying to make is this...had this happened to me about a year ago when I had just started out I would have been mortified....probably would've left the room in tears or maybe even tried to run out. Last night I didn't care. Don't get me wrong, I didn't want to mess up, and I wish I had done it as we rehearsed but again my point is that I messed up BIG, but so what....there's still next week and the week after that and I gave Sam and my nephews something to tease me about. We'll all have those days...I had them during my racing days, surely have them when I bake....so it's going to happen in my music class...and probably quite often...but ....Life goes on and it's still a FUN TIME there.