Christmas Concert and Thoughts

Tonight was our school Christmas concert. I was nervous earlier this week, and some of those nerves were normal/common for me, but some were actually justified. My accompanist did not quite play through things the way we discussed. She is a sweet lady, but she apparently doesn't have the chops to accompany students that aren't great at following a conductor...


Anyways, I don't want to go all negative here. The concert went well, despite the bits that weren't great. The kids did a GREAT job following, even when things got changed on them in the moment. So, many of the people that read this (ok, the 2 that regularly read it...) know how flowers are often given at the end of a performance. Well, they didn't give me flowers tonight. Instead, they gave me this giant stuffed giraffe with a purple scarf around its neck, a purple hair flower on its ear, and a silver snowflake ornament on its ear. TOO cute.

So, random back story to help with an epiphany I had tonight. Back in high school during my senior year (my one year in choir in high school), our choir director did these interviews with each of the seniors that he called "Senior Spotlights". It was a fun way for us to tell our classmates what we were planning for college, what our goals were, etc. Well, the ONE question I remember my answer to other than which college I was attending (APU, woo!) was where I wanted to be in 10 years. My answer was: "Teaching at a private school, so I can teach Band, Choir, and Spanish all at the same time."  Guess what? I've arrived!!! It hit me tonight that this spring, I will be doing exactly that! Sure, I only teach Preschool Spanish, but it's definitely still what I said I wanted to be doing.

I never really thought of myself as a goal oriented person to such an extreme that I'd make anything happen like this, but maybe I am? No, I'm thinking not. I tend to work toward smaller goals, not the big ones like this...