Yesterday was perhaps the first real hot day of the year. I had my usual Saturday lessons -a bright eight year old girl in the morning, only just starting but awake and interested (more awake than I was, for sure), then the indomitable French boy who started at 5 and is now approaching 8 -a sometimes not very easy lesson but a rewarding one nonetheless, he's intelligent and musical although sometimes difficult to keep in focus. In the afternoon, very shy Chinese ethnic little girl who again is very musical and intelligent. She's been doing Grade 2 classical guitar material and yesterday she had her first electric guitar lesson -and I suspect that is the way this is going to go with her. She took to it straight away and even became much less shy. Finally, my UCL doctor pupil who has been my student for years and is playing Grade 6 and 7 pieces and who, although he lives near, prefers the lessons online (half the time he is on call, which probably has a part in this).
After all that I went to Colliers Wood (at the exact opposite end of the Northern Line) to meet @lproven on a rare, brief visit of his to London and who wanted to meet at a Venezuelan restaurant in that area. This was good, with his wife and child and another friend of his. I didn't know of the place and, being Venezuelan, was indeed looking forward to the food and perhaps snatches of conversation in the Venezuelan version of Spanish with the staff. All of which happened and was good.
Today, a couple of lessons -first one online, then one in person with this boy who probably plays more electric guitar than I can but also I feel still has a lot to learn -let's see whether I can help with that or whether he'll decide that he won't need that help. Then ... @bibliogoth meeting, discussing
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