Back to work
Today is the first day back to work after the Christmas and New Year holidays. It was great to have all these days off... of course, it gave me more time to be more present at Hive. We will see how I get back into the routine and combine all the activities into my days - as everyone does, I guess! 😉
And I am also sure you all know this feeling of how it is always kind of hard to start working after the holidays, although in my case I have the desire to see my students again. I won't see some of them anymore starting this month, I simply have to reduce the number of days I travel to work because it is exhausting. I will miss them and some of them will miss me. When I announced the news last month, my gaze met that of a dear student. Our eyes got wet but we managed not to cry; we hugged and said goodbye.
I already went through a very similar situation, with the little students of the music school where I worked many years ago. But there the goodbye was more radical and difficult. I moved to another country.
Before I moved, I worked at this music school that you see in the photos. The concert hall is beautiful, I have fond memories of it. And the stairs... how many times I climbed there, both when I was a student and when I was already working. That is the same school where I started learning to play the piano, which I graduated from and went to another city to high school and later to college, and then I came back and immediately got a job as a piano teacher there. A blessing, it is what it was for me.
The school published a book when it celebrated its 60th anniversary (I still worked there). There appeared all the students who learned in this institution (at least by name) and all the teachers who gave lessons, the years, achievements, performances and important people who came out from that school. I have a copy of that book with me, today I opened a page where I stood with my colleagues (no, I will not post that photo 😂) and leafed through the book.
It is actually interesting how a group of people from the past who wanted to show others music influenced the community and the town, how the cultural level of the society can improve when there are people who decide to share their skills. We can definitely consider it a success when a school can justify its establishment and existence by becoming the pillar of musical and cultural life in one place. Many holidays, events, performances and concerts were supported by the teachers and students throughout decades. I remember that countless times we played at events that the city organized... though those events were not paid hahaha, it was supposed the musicians would play because they liked it. Somehow it is true, as we do it to our satisfaction, although to the satisfaction of the surroundings too as music ennobles all people, bringing joy, happiness or sadness to all hearts.
Well, back to the present and my day. I am running to work, maybe the publish button will be pressed in a break between two lessons, I don't know lol, but I suppose I had some feelings of longing that led me to remember my first workplace and write this post.
Have a great first day at work then!
I do like going back to work to be honest, it's not that I don't like being at home but after a week it gets a little dull, and I don't sleep as well when work doesn't make me tired 😅
Thank you, I survived 😂
Oh, I can sleep well with or without work haha
I wanted to see that picture 🦉 haha
It is a very beautiful institution, full of memories for you and for all those who stepped on its musical floors hehe farewells are never easy, some are harder than others, but every end implies a new beginning and here you are, returning to work, much success 🙏❤️
Hahaha, if Buhito asked for the photo I can't disobey it, we know how is he lol and there is also another Hiver who wanted to see it, so I covered the faces of my colleagues
@pumarte - pues aquí está la foto 😂
Creo que Buhito se gano la fama de ser un demente vengativo cuando se le niega algo jajajajaja sorry 😂
Te ves hermosa en la foto 😍 ame tu cabello jiji ❤️
Pues sí. Buhito tiene esa fama jaja
Gracias 💜 aunque el pelo lo tenía un poco demasiado arreglado, no? 😆
Tu cabello...
It's good to be back from the break. You really maximise the entire opportunity and even had more time on hive.
Welcome back and I wish you a wonderful moment again in the new year.
Los vínculos que se crean entre alumnos y maestros (sobre todo cuando son buenos ambos) son casi familiares. La enseñanza es de las más nobles profesiones que existe y si esta transforma vidas y comunidades, el trabajo está bien hecho. Aunque a veces no es debidamente valorado queda la satisfacción por lo realizado. Dejarás una huella en la vida de cada alumno que has tenido y tendrás y seguramente será una buena marca. Buen regreso al trabajo!! 🤗
Así es, esos vínculos suelen ser fuertes. Así como mis profes dejaron huella en mí, sé que alguna huella mía queda en mis alumnos. Si cuento los años... mejor no jajaja, empecé a trabajar en el año dos mil tres. 😅
Gracias... tampoco estaba mal durante las vacaciones jajaja, que pena que siempre terminan pronto 😂
Más de 20 años transmitiendo saberes!!! Es una labor encomiable 🤗
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You seem happy to be back to work after a good vacation, you talk about farewells and of course they are always difficult for teachers and students, but there is also satisfaction when you have left a mark on them. One day you will smile when you meet them and they are already musicians because you were part of their training. My regards to you and have a nice weekend.🥰❤️
Well, I was also happy during the holidays. 😂 I really know how to enjoy the days off, but there is also satisfaction when there are students who like to learn. Unfortunately, I had no other option but to leave to someone else (it is not easy now to find another teacher who could take my lessons as I don't want to travel in this way forever) exactly the day where I had some good students who like to practice. Thank you very much @mamani for reading and commenting 🤗 I also wish you a nice weekend! 🍀
Wow, reading your article made me mentally travel back to the year when my mother retired from teaching definitively... Those were very emotional months because of the great number of visits from students and really nice moments... Even today, she continues to receive visits from her former students and last December a former student of Syrian origin who had returned to the country of his ancestors more than 15 years ago and came back to visit his relatives in Venezuela was here at our home... He made time to visit his former teacher "Sara"!... It was a memorable moment!... The bond between teacher-student is perhaps one of the strongest that develops between people, I believe... Good for you, @mipiano teacher!... Nice post, very touching...
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Your mom, the teacher, you mentioned her a few times, so I can somehow say I met her through you. ;) Thank you!
I completely understand what you say about that connection. I moved from there thirteen years ago, and since then, whenever I go to visit family there are also those former students who invite me for a coffee or a walk. Not all, of course, but those who were close. The story you say about the student who came after 15 years and visited his teacher - wow, that is marvellous and memorable indeed! 🙌
Thank you for sharing it with us, @jlinaresp !!
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Goodbyes are not easy, they are not, especially when you love what you do and I understand you perfectly. When I left Argentina I also left a job and dozens of students, it was not easy at all... I think it was the most complicated farewell for me... I hope to find some pictures of meetings that I used to organise at the end of the year for my students...
Let's move on!
Yeah, I think my students cried more than my family when leaving... well, we all cried hahaha I remember you mentioned your students from Argentina, and you also have many things in your collections that you got from them 😉 Some of them will always stay in our hearts, right?
It was many years and not only that, the quality of the people and the work, will always be in my heart, thank you!
Todo muy bonito pero me quedé con ganas de ver la foto 😅😂😂
Jajaja, ya está en la respuesta al comentario de Elbuhito 😆🦋
Ya la vi 😹 te vez muy bien y destacas en el grupo de mariposas 😂
Jajaja, y ni siquiera tenía una red para mariposas 😂
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Great post @mipiano!
You can immediately tell from the attitude of the students towards the teacher and vice versa that this is not just a job for you.
But this is your calling and a part of your life!
And music is a part of you.
Yeah, not just a job. I earn more while playing the piano than with lessons but still, I go and teach. It's the connections that are created with the students 😉
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It's amazing how a workplace can cause so many emotions in us, especially musicians and our concert halls or classrooms. That place looks perfect with the chairs and the piano in the background, it looks like a little musical sanctuary, beautiful and illuminated as I like them. Yes, it's hard to go back, I've had more unplanned “vacation” days, but I want to get back to the day to day, you'll see how easily you'll be fresh again. A hug my friend, I love you very much. I wish you many successes in 2025 🙏
The concert hall is very nice, it wasn't that yellow back in time when I used to study there, like thirty-something years ago, they painted it later into this colour 😇 maybe in the first years when I was already back there and worked ✨
I hope everything will be ok in your country... 🙏
Hello, almost everyone is back to work. After a much needed Christmas and New Year's vacations. We really needed it. I am a professor at the University of Pinar del Rio, Cuba. I have been there for 20 years, more like 25 years because it was 5 years of studies and when I got a gold degree they gave me a teaching position. It is wonderful how the students remember us and how they thank us. I have a book at home with the signature of my classmates and teachers from the last day of my studies, why didn't you show your entry in the book of your school? I already see people waiting to see you jjjj. Thanks for sharing this post and also all the others on your vacation days, now back to work with more joy I did too. Good luck to you.
Yes, now we are back to work, but how good that today is Saturday already, the weekend is here :)))
I know you work at the University, all my respects for your work! Hahaha, I didn't show the book as there are names and surnames, photos and info of the people who maybe wouldn't like that info appears on the internet 😉 But I showed one photo, in my response to Elbuhito's comment in this post ;)
El mes pasado deje mi trabajo como instructor de artes plásticas...fue difícil despedirme de los niños!
Hmm... espero la decisión fue tomada por ti y por buenos motivos.
La mayoría de los niños son honestos y muestran un lado inocente que los adultos ya no... ayer mismo tenía una clase donde sonreí mucho, mucho, un chico aprendió durante las vacaciones una pieza genial, vino con una sonrisa de oreja a oreja y estaba feliz que podrá tocar a mi esa obra - mi corazón saltaba de alegría! Son los mejores regalos!