In all my years of being in orchestra, I've never noticed much. To be honest, I'd just go into class and play my instrument (I play the violin just in case anyone is wondering). Every single day would be the same routine. I didn't mind, I love rehearsals but now things have changed.
These past two weeks I've been taking my time to observe my orchestra class. I think it's safe to say that I've discovered a lot. To start, I noticed how loud my class is! It's pretty annoying now that I've noticed it. I should probably mention that I'm observing my Freshmen orchestra class. Now, I'm not saying that freshmen are loud and obnoxious but they just won't shut up! What I find interesting is that they get louder throughout the week. On Monday they're moderately quiet but as soon as Friday comes around, everything is ten times louder. Before I wouldn't have noticed how much talking goes on in that class. Even my teacher is out and about socializing before class starts. "Ames is 'interacting.'" (Observation notes, 9/23)
Now that I've touched on the subject of my teacher, let me describe him a bit. He's tall, lanky, blond, and awkward but not the weird awkward, the funny awkward. He's also very "calm and patient." (Observation notes, 9/15) I haven't really noticed anything about him that I haven't noticed before so I'll make sure to observe him some more next week.
