Final blog: my final words of LSKM 221

 

My final words to you...

As I sit here on a coldish kind of day full of raindrops and cleanly washed roads, I feel fresh. Today has been a better day for me. I feel hopeful, joyful, and so blessed. Jesus is taking care of his own. As I sit here, I wonder, will we have a music module again in the future. Will we have a lector that helps us like this one. Will anyone ever be as kindhearted lector. Will I sit here and do blogs, which I enjoy doing.

I have done most of my work for this semester, only have a couple of things left to do. It feels so amazing to not be as rushed…ask me tomorrow and then I am rushed again…but for now I see the bright light at the end of the tunnel that was this busy horrifying semester.

LSKM 221, you were good to me. Since I have sang in the school’s choir since I can remember I knew a lot about music. But I believe we never stop learning since we can never know enough. Yes, I had a bunch of prior knowledge on the concept music, but wow, I still learned so much. I have learned so much stuff in a semesters time.

The individual reflections were weirdly enough very peaceful and relaxed. This time I spent here I had a chance to raise my voice on things I had felt I needed to. Normally telling someone how you feel makes you feel better and telling someone about work, you remember that work for longer periods of time. This reflections gave me a chance to go through the work and figure out the how and why of each unit so I could blog about the unit to my best abilities.

There was not really something that I can think about that was challenging for me. All that I struggled with this module was to do the blogs in the beginning. I was not ever into technology, so I feel like I must do some catching up. I feel the urge to carry on with the blogs throughout my whole studies. It really helped me that much. I am a peoples person, so I would have loved to have more opportunities to be on a streaming class.

I can not really think of anything I would change in this module. All the work and study units were divided and put out so nicely and neat. The videos and the notes and examples of activities really helped me to grasp the content better.  All thing yet again I will maybe consider doing more video chats, since COVID 19 came into our lives and threw us all off guard.

I am so happy with everything that I have learned in this module. Each study unit was very interesting. I can not say that something specific stood out for me. All that I can think about was all the different instruments. I knew the instruments. But it is so amazing how each instrument works and looks different and it sound different. It was quite something else to learn about.

I will for sure take everything I have learned to my class one day. There was so much things that helped me during this semester and I believe it will still be helping me in 10 years’ time. This module just shifted me. A lot of people shared so much personal stories on their blogs. I do believe some have struggled sharing and I am so proud of those who became more confident while singing, dancing of playing. The blogs was really such a good idea. I loved reading other peoples blogs to see where they struggled and what they loved. It inspired me to do more in the next blog and even to be better for me and others.

I hope next years students will love LSKM 221 as much as I did. I hope each one of you who are reading this  has a wonderful day and enjoy the little moments while it lasts.



Keep your head up high.

I will talk to you all soon, beybey for now.

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