Classroom Music Blog

     La rueda de La Noria. A contraluz contemplo su silueta y espero a mis compañeros. Comienzo el día desde este lugar, a las 7,30 de la mañana. Entonces: 80 kilómetros de ida y 80 kilómetros de vuelta. ¡A comenzar la jornada con energía!

    The Ferris wheel. A backlit contemplate its silhouette and waited for my teammates. Start the day from this place, at 7.30 in the morning. Then: 80 miles round 80 miles back.To start the day with energy!

   He do not let either sun or shade . She's " abducted " . She looks like a zombie. She doesn't like before: she was cheerful, fun, entertaining . She hasn't spark in her eyes. She has taken the first train it's passed. She doesn't want to see more, to get more. She conform, she resign. She keep her head and she nods. She maybe have any threats or contact, or a shove. Now she's a subtle control, and psychological. Control the look, the gesture, with a bad face or reply. But she wants. He's her man, just for her. And he protects her. He would give his life for her. He will be with she forever. He will be the father of her children, and he will feed and educate. She doesn't need search anymore. She found her man. Others women haven't been the same luck. If he hit her is because he wants. If he is threatening because he  protects to her. If he doesn't consent is because he is jealous, and that in the background you like, because it is a ...

     No le deja ni a sol ni a sombra. Está "abducida". Parece un zombie. No es como antes: alegre, divertida, entretenida. Le falta chispa en sus ojos. Ha cogido el primer tren que ha pasado. No quiere ver más, buscar más. Se conforma, se resigna. Agacha la cabeza y asiente. Puede que ya haya habido amenazas o contacto, o algún empujón. Ahora es un control sutil, sicológico. Control con la mirada, con el gesto, con una mala cara o contestación. Pero ella le quiere. Es su hombre, solo para ella. Y le protege. Daría su vida por ella. Estará con él toda la vida. Será el padre de sus hijos, que alimentará y educará. No necesita buscar más. Ha encontrado su hombre. Otras no tendrán la misma suerte. Si le pega es porque le quiere. Si le amenaza es porque le protege. Si no le consiente es porque tiene celos, y eso en el fondo le gusta, porque es una prueba de amor. Es una chica-burka. Ya no está para nada ni para nadie. Tiene 15 años pero ya ha dejado de vivir. 25 d...

I came back home thinking: Bitter Monday! after the workday. An hour in the car, and if you go alone, it's a long way . When I can't achieve the objetives with my students, I feel a bad mood, saddened, sorrow. The group of 3º of ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education), is so crowded, so talkative , and students are very lazy, is that sometimes I don't know where to start. I tell them: please let me teach!, let me explained that!, while some aren't interested in it, others are. And there is no solution. The small groups start to talk, and I separate them, and I notice them, and I follow whit the lesson, and they continued to talk, and we play the flute, and they do not always bring it, and they continued to talk, and I can not anymore. And that's the end: You!, you!, and you! have a warning serious, for disturbing again and again, for coming to class out of personal interest, without material, disrespecting the teacher not paying attention ...! So I feel miserable, v...

Así lo venía pensando de vuelta a casa después de la jornada laboral. Una hora de coche, y si vas solo, da para mucho. Cuando no cumplo los objetivos marcados con mis alumnos salgo con mal carácter, apenado, apesadumbrado. El grupo de 3º (ESO) ( Compulsory  Se c ond ary  Education)  tan numeroso, tan hablador, y con alumnos tan vagos, es que a veces no se por dónde cogerlo. Y les aviso, por favor, dejadme dar clase, dejadme explicados esto, que aunque no os interese a algunos, a otros sí. Y nada. Los grupitos se ponen a hablar, y los separo, y aviso, y sigo y pongo esta audición, y siguen hablando, y tocamos la flauta, y los de siempre no la traen, y siguen hablando, y ya no puedo más. Y se acabó: tú, tú y tú tenéis una amonestación grave, por reincidencia, por molestar una y otra vez, por venir a clase sin interés ninguno, sin material, faltándole el respeto al profesor al no prestar atención… Y así se me queda el cuerpo. Mal. Éste, por esta amonestación, se va a su c...

I have the custom to turn the radio on and listen to the news every morning during my breakfast. It is the first of three or four times I hear the news repeated until I get to work. This radio sometimes behaves like my son. Especially when its batteries off. And that is the volumen, put my hands near and pum up the volume immediately. My hand makes antenna, and fits perfectly. Upon leaving one meters and not hear it. I should be having breakfast with my hand glued to the radio. My son is now that if I separate a moment, he gets nervous, he calls me, he looks for me ... It is the age-dependence. It's an very beautiful age, but sometimes it's tiring. Then I will miss him when my son doesn't want to hear to his father, and organizes his life alone.