Personal Narrative: A Career In Music Education

It was a cold average day in mid January as I walked to my piano lesson. As we started the lesson, my piano teacher leaned over and began to tell me about a piano competition and the winners perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City. I said sure, not believing I would make the cut in a hundred years. Three months later the time for the competition had come, I was told that there were about five hundred people competing for thirty-eight slots. When my turn came to play in front of the judges, I did not have a trace of anxiety. I played through my piece and as far as I could tell I was flawless. The next day being a Sunday I slept in before going to church. Suddenly I hear a shut from my mother saying it was my piano teacher. I was shock, could she be calling about the competition? And sure enough I had made it. I played with some of the top musicians in my area and it was an honor. That concert in Carnegie Hall changed my life, I went home and spend days thinking about what I had done and what I was capable of now. I would not have gotten through that time of my life if I did not have the experience of my two music teachers. They helped me come to the conclusion that I wanted to major in music.
I began to take music more seriously after that point.
I started a choir at my church, which is still singing today. Another milestone that I had reached in my life was my Eagle Scout Award. I have been a very active scout and will continue to be one. The Boy Scouts of America have given me tools and skills that I will use throughout my life. This past summer I was second in charge of a youth leadership-training course. Which is a weeklong event in which the participants learn extensive leadership skills and advanced scout skills. That course gave me a large amount of first hand teaching and leadership experience. As well as my Eagle Scout project which came out to over forty hours of work time and planning
time.
I asked my voice teacher one day why he pick music education as a career. He smiled and went on a long-winded story about his old music teacher. Which made me think that without my music teachers I do not know where I would be in live. I was lucky enough to have some of the greatest teachers in my area. They gave me a gift, a part of their soul, and for that gift I can never thank them enough. I want to become a teacher so I can spread that gift that they gave me. My teachers were the perfect role model of what teacher should be, they were hopeful encouraging and so much more. They kept faith in me and changed my world, I want to return that favor, and changed a child's world.

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