My father walks towards " Son, " he says " your mother and I have decided that you can become a musician. "
I give a 'whoop' of joy and play a happy melody on my fiddle. My family laughs and claps along to the rhythm.
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I walk through the halls of my school and head towards my classroom. I purposely got to school a bit earlier to show my teacher how well I can play on the fiddle and hopefully inspire him to teach music or even better get me to teach music!
I reached my class and walked through the door. My teacher was in there just as I hoped. "Sir," I say "I have something to tell you..."
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It told him all about my passion for music and how he might want to let me teach the class or maybe get him to teach music lessons. He was shocked and I thought for a second he was going to scream in my face and tell me to get lost. "I'm sorry," he said. My heart sank lower than my feet. "Children under eighteen are not allowed to teach or else I would say yes." I was devastated but at the same time that was always going to be the answer I was going to get so it wasn't all that bad. "Okay," I say trying not to show the emotion in my voice. "Maybe in six years time."
"Yes," my teacher replies "Maybe in six years..."
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After school my mother makes me do stick yoga. Stick yoga. Stick. Yoga. My lord I'm embarrassed. My face feels like it's the colour of Autumn leaves! Hibiscus is watching! My face goes nuts! Hibiscus is a girl from my school. She's cute.
"Bend back your roots and touch them to the floor behind your head" the yoga lady says. Omeegowd! *groans*.
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After an embarrassing yoga lesson I sit in my room and play on my fiddle until it's sun time ( dinner time except we pretty much eat sun ). We have quite a serving because it was a really sunny day.
After I have sun I am absolutely stuffed with sun.
Then dad comes up to me. " Son, " he says " I have an exciting announcement..."