To A. Jasper,
This week is the most happiness week for me because It's a week for music performance we practice for this event name is “Thursday Child Music Festival” I know this queue of bands event before two day ago. We got number seven of ten bands. First time, I don’t want to performance this event because I want to prepare for final exam. I have six subjects for read. It’s very hard and I got twenty credits for study and exam. But My Bassist (The leader of my band) name is “Benz” want to performance so his opinion is a decision of the band so we play. And he gave a hard song to a band. My band name is “Bed Graceful” (A person who grace on the bed) named by Peerunthorn Guitarist. A member have four persons. Nuttakrit (Benz) be Bassist and Leader of the band , Peerunthorn (Tearn) be Guitarist and Vocal , Chang be Drummer and All Percussion and Me be a Vocalist and Pianist. We form the band last year by me and Benz because He asked me that “you played music and me play too.” so I accepted him to be a band and find the drummer and accepted him. His name is “Bird”. He older than me three years but never mind! He want me to called him like a friend. And the position of guitarist is me because I decided to be this and vocalist like Nirvana band. First performance, We fail because we play Nirvana song and I forgot solo in line of outro in “Smell like teen Spirit” song. When that finished. We decided that band must have a guitarist to do the own position. And the leader want me to be the Vocalist only so we find guitarist and we got him. His name is Anuruch (Tle) He like to play “Led Zeppelin” and He handsome too. Many girls crazy on him. The position have full and ready for performance so the second performance should be perfect because We have quality but It’s not. We make impress for groupie only but others don’t impress my band so I think we failed again. And a month when third performance nearly to start. The band had changed in two position. “Bird” quit because He must go aboard for study in Master degree at Virginia University so We accepted his reason and no drummer but the reason of “Tle” isn’t a fair reason. He want to chill so Many words that he told the band is fake. So We must find an empty positions. And the sound of the heaven heard my prayed. My friend name is “Katipoj” told that his younger brother play drum and good skill. So We calling to him and looking for his skill. He audition to the band with a good skill like Katipoj said. So we accept him. His name is Chang (Elephant) He tallest in the band and powerful drummer like his name. And the guitarist is my close friend. He is Peerunthorn. I like his characteristics. He have a lot of active. Twenty four hours He manage the time for do everything and It have quality too. He be my good friend and He named the band to be an official name is “Bed Graceful” And We choose the kind of the band that should to be. The band be “Funk” because We like many kinds of music. I like Rock&Roll , Peerunthorn like Punk , Chang like Ska and Benz like Punk so just finished by him because He’s a leader. And this event we seriously to be perfect and My band have three songs for play. They decided that we must cover Red Hot Chilli Peppers song. The song is name By the Way and Silly Fools and Don’t Cry Gun N Rose. We accepted that at the first time and we practice all. I saw a problem because It isn’t my style so I told the band that I want to change a Don’t Cry song to be Red hot Chilli Peppers song name is “Give It Away” because It’s my style I’m rock but when I be a vocalist I like to complain all of things It’s nearly to be Rapper more than a singer. And I enjoyed when I rap. During rehearsal period, I had to practice so hard on that because basically I think it cannot fit me that well. Not only myself, but also all the members in the band though. We all hope this show would be great like in the past shows. When the day came, we got to ABAC Bangna pretty early. We had to wait until our turn. I think was probably around 7.00 pm though. When we started playing, I felt the sound of entertainment. Because I could see all the audience participated with us with all the songs we played. I think they enjoyed watching us a lot. I was really impressed. I sang in this show for 2 songs. There was By the Way and Give It away from Red Hot Chilli Peppers. The first song I sang actually got some attention from the audience but for the other one they came down and danced with us. It was awesome show for everyone especially for us though. I really enjoyed this concert and I think all the band member would feel the same way, too.
After this concert, it should be the time for preparing for my final because it’s so soon and I haven’t prepared anything. First of all I have to revise all the books for the classes and then if I don’t’ understand anything; I will go to revise again with my friends because they always help me with that. Sometimes I come to my sister to sum the lessons up. She usually good at summarize. And I would like to say thank you for my mom too because she’s always help me with English even though she’s super busy with all her works. The bad thing with that is I always ask her when it’s like the day before the test which is rush and if you don’t get anything in the class. It’s so hard to pressure yourself with that for the whole day. I just tell myself not to be the ‘overnight genius’ or some kind of intelligent kid to understand all things in one day. I wish I could study hard as I play the guitar or working on music club. I realize that I spend the most for my time with music. Sometimes my family tells me not to be so concentrated only with the music because maybe you have to choose the important event for yourself. They just want me to try to be organized though because I would forget to read after class and chill with playing and singing songs most of the time. After that I’ll be rush with class revision and stay up all night just for preparing for the test.
After thinking about my education, I remembered reading a passage about home schooling in America. Honestly, that was my imagination hen I was younger. I would like to have my own classes that I can choose what to learn, but problem is I would have nothing in my head for testing. I think I would choose to study music or something about art, but not drawing I promise. More Americans are home schooling their kids because they believe that they will become better prepare for life by learning at home rather than at public school or private school. Home schooling parents view school as something artificial and locks up the kids in the same age together. They basically just want to protect their children from dangers at school like drugs, sex, and violence. Some of them want children for only learning but also experience for their education. The children and do anything on their own free will and successfully too because those kids usually manage to pass with top marks though. Home school has no age barriers because there would have the kids from different age sitting and learning the same thing together. There’s no charge for the course also. Their kids would make the class interesting if they choose their own class to study because instead of stubbornly following the public school curriculum, their parents just teach what their children want to know. Learning in school is often simply a matter of cramming for tests. When the test’s over, they forget all what they learned. From the studies show that home schooling kids tend to read more, watch less television, and are more active in politics and the community than the others. A lot of people would like to teach at home but they can’t. Because they have to have a lot of dedication and patience and important thing is they have to like their kids. Right now is worldwide education. You can learn everything you want just get online in the US has great deal with the technology. It’s easier to be home schooling than in Thailand with lack of technology and alternative education. I really like this passage because it shows the alternative of education. You have your own choice to be with your friends at school or just stay home for home schooling. I think because of standard of education in United States is totally stable. Like I you want to go to university you just apply there. It depends on your skills to get in so you have to study hard to get a good grade. Hopefully Thailand would become the same as the US. I see some of the similar in the different way such as, applying for college by using their own grades to get in or sending the applications to the college. But the different is if you don’t like this faculty you just quit and try the new one in Thailand compare with you can change your major before the third year of college in the US. It’s like in Thailand you can’t choose but you quit. I’m not saying that because we’re not that good, but if you can make a step to get to the standard for quality of life for all the Thais, that would help a lot. Why can anyone just start reading to make more lines for Thai readers in Ginnest book? Why can students in class start sharing some good information related in class? I think studying at school would make the kids lazy. Due to school environment, for myself sometimes I feel like I don’t want to go there when I know that there’s no attendance score and I can also read it myself. But the home schooling has some weak points also. Like some of the relationship with friends and others. Mostly home schoolings are parents and children together, not as big community as public school or private school. The children would lose them. If some of them would like to attend college or university, they maybe have a hard time getting use to the environment with the schoolmates and teachers. They would say that is a good thing to be concentrated with the study but in some point relationship with others is one of the matters to get in a higher in career. So to make this class perfect, I would put some of the relationship with others lesson or social class in one of my home schooling class list also.
Back to reality, I think college life is pretty much like home schooling in revision part though. After reading that passage I realize what to do for myself and my family which are working hard on studying but chilling with music that I passion. Then other factors that might effect my education, I’ll try to reduce them because that would gain more time to concentrate with my classes. And I wish I would finish university in 4 years as my family want me to do.
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