Geust speaker - Lorenz Cairns

Hello to fellow followers and others who may be reading, its time for another blog. This week i am going to be speaking about Lorenz cairns and the effect his words have had on me. Of course as normal i will speak about college and other activities which are helping my achive my graded unit, but to start of Lorenz cairns.

Lorenz Cairns is the head of the music department at perth college. He went through many diferent carrer choices to achive where he is today. Firstly lorenz can from a family background of music through his father. He played bass and loved singing. He went to alot of rehersals with his father where he would get the chance to play and one day he was offered an audition to the Royal acadamy of Music where he eventualy stayed for 1 year. After this he decided he wanted to play his bass more and ended up traveling the world for 5 years playing. Lorenz explained to us that he learnt so much as a session player, some of which are working under pressure, time keeping and consiistance. He then realised at 32 he didnt want to be a session player anymore and went on to become a west end singer. Lorenz had decided that he wanted to "be all that he could be" and learned how to do so through always thinking ahead. Where do you want to be? What do you want to do next? Lorenz eventualy toke the posistion he is currently in had has loved every minute of it. The feeling of motivating and teaching students is such a warm feeling to him. He belives that if you wish to be in education as a teacher you have to be prepared to be out of your comfort zone, accept and rise to challanges and most of all listen.

Lorenz has taught me that i dont know how far education will take me but if i can sustain my carrer i will go far. I beieve that i am an extremly good listener and i know i want to help grow childrens minds. I also belive that i can motivate children to learn new things and encourage them to study hard. Through all of this knowledge i believe i will become a very good teacher.

As lorenz said "you've got to want to be that step forward and then take that step forward"

This week i toke my first exam in piano which i passed very strongly but i know i am under way of being able to achive my goal of playing grade 3 music by the end of this year. I need to be able to play piano as a teacher and i need to play up to grade 5 standard for university. I feel i am on track for this achivement and will succed.

In college this week it was the same old really. i began to start more research into my presentaion on the beatles. It is quite tiresome but work has to be done. I also learned to manage my time better with studying and in practicing. Time keeping is an important atribute to become an instrumental instructor. It wasnt something i was strongly good at but i am improving dramaticly.

Well this is all i can say this week, Tune in next week to see what ive learned and achived.

Zoe Johnston