Hi!
In continuing with my Lifescouts series, my next badge is the piano badge.
When I was four years old, my mom gave me the option to either start taking dance lessons or piano lessons. I chose dance and so she set me up with ballet classes. During my first class, I got freaked out and started crying and stopped taking lessons before the first recital. Then she tried to set me up with piano lessons. The only problem was no teacher wanted to teach me because they didn't think I knew the alphabet or would sit still long enough to learn anything. Until she found my first teacher who was willing to teach me because I knew the alphabet. She was the best teacher and I remember every time I finished a lesson, she would let me throw a tennis ball to her golden retriever before my mom and I left. Sadly, I had to stop taking lessons because we were moving. Of course I found a new teacher and continued taking lessons until the eighth grade. I had gotten bored with playing the piano because I had seen all my other friends learning songs I wanted to play even though they were on lower levels than I was on and yet my teacher wouldn't let me play them. My first piano teacher always thought that I had great potential and would become a great and famous piano player someday. She even gave me a music composition book so that I could write my own songs and told my mom to keep her in the loop with any awards or competitions I won. I sometimes regret the fact that I stopped taking lessons and wonder where I would be with my piano playing if we hadn't moved. Nevertheless, I will still sometimes sit down and play some of the songs that I always enjoyed.
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