借宝地得瑟一下和卖个小广告

Preview: 第一章

Chapter 1

Curse of the Flute Key

　　　　　　　　　　　 Gerald took a deep breath, tilted his head down and started to play his favourite piece. The music put him into a trance, his fingers pressing on the keys, almost mechanically. Then suddenly, the flute sound stopped. Gerald opened his eyes in surprise. What had happened? He was just about to get to the exciting part! He played the chromatic scale. B flat, C… Wait, C sharp did not play! “You again?” he asked, as if talking to the flute key. He played C sharp again and with a sigh, said to himself, “I’ve got to fix it this time…”

　　　　　　　　　　　 He knew he had to fix this problem. Recently, the size of his wallet had been very small and thus he had been procrastinating on this flute key problem. However, he needed to fix it this time. If not, he would not be able to play at his next performance! Rather reluctantly, he rushed to his computer and went online to search for good deals to repair his flute key.

　　　　　　　　　　　 His eyes scanned through the webpages on a local online forum when something caught his eyes. FREE FLUTE KEY REPLACEMENT! GO TO WAREHOUSE ON 5 AMBER STREET! As his motto went, “When something’s free, don’t forget me!” he placed his flute in its case and headed for the subway immediately.　 Gerald had a humble background.　 Since young, his parents trained him to be thrifty.　 Learning to play the flute was not cheap.　 It came with all sorts of tuition and maintenance cost.　 Gerald had passed the age of asking for allowance from his parents.　 He felt lucky that he could chance upon this ad online.　 　He was off towards Amber Street at the very next moment.　 He walked down Amber Street, reading to himself the addresses, “11 Amber Street, 9 Amber Street, 7…there it is! 5 Amber Street!”. He held his flute case and trotted into the old warehouse. An old man came up to him and said “You must be here for replacement of a flute key.”

　　　　　　　　　　　 “Yes! And it’s free right?” Gerald exclaimed as he opened his flute case.

　　　　　　　　　　　 The man nodded plainly as if he did not possess any emotion. Somehow, he already knew which key was not working. He took a brown key from one of the wooden boxes in the corner and replaced the flawed one on the flute right away. Something about it did not seem right. Oh well, Gerald thought, it is just a free flute key replacement. What can I expect? That was probably the worst decision he had made. He had no idea what he was in for…

　　　　　　　　　　　 Dean had been Gerald’s flute tutor for three years. He knew Gerald very well and knew that he had a disciplined and rigid personality. However, Dean thought Gerald had reached a plateau in his musical ability as Gerald was not able to express any feeling in his playing. As Dean thought about it, he realised in a way Gerald was stubborn as he loved playing certain types of music but not others.

　　　　　　　　　　　 Dean found himself walking toward Gerald’s house the next day and hearing beautiful music from Gerald’s dormitory, it melted his heart! He thought it can’t be Gerald playing it as the music was too expressive. Moreover, this piece was one that he had never been able to play before despite weeks of practice!

　　　　　　　　　　　 Dean walked into Gerald’s dormitory and when he saw Gerald playing the romantic piece, he exclaimed, “Wow! I can’t believe it’s you…”. Before he could finish, he noticed the wooden flute key on Gerald’s flute.

　　　　　　　　　　　 “What is that? How did you get it?” Dean asked Gerald as he pointed to the key.

　　　　　　　　　　　 Gerald told him everything from how he found the ad for the free replacement flute key to how after changing the flute key, his playing skill had increased by a tenfold!

　　　　　　　　　　　 The moment Dean heard this, his heart sank and the light in his eyes drained away. This was not a miracle; it was disaster! Immediately after the lesson, he travelled into the musical dimension and reported to the flute King about the unrealistic miracle.

　　　　　　　　　　　 “Oh no, this is very, very, very bad! The double basses have their names written all over this whole scheme. This must be one of their curses. Hurry, make him stop playing the flute, before it is too late!” The King exclaimed.

　　　　　　　　　　　 “Yes, my lord, I will make sure the student stops playing that flute,” Dean said as he bowed down.

　　　　　　　　　　　 But it was too late. Gerald was amazed by how well he could master the flute after he had changed the key. He played it day and night, even forgetting to eat and sleep sometimes! Dean charged through Gerald’s front door just as he was about to start playing another piece.

　　　　　　　　　　　 “Why did you interrupt me? I was just about to play another Beethoven!” Gerald complained.

　　　　　　　　　　　 “Gerald, you have to listen to me. Stop playing on this flute, please. I would do anything for you as long as you promise me not to play this flute anymore. Pass the flute to me!” Dean said, while trying to catch his breath.

　　　　　　　　　　　 Gerald threw a scowl at Dean, “You are just jealous, aren’t you? Now that I can play way better than you, you ARE jealous! You want this amazing flute all to yourself. Well, that’s too bad; I am not giving it to you!”

　　　　　　　　　　　 Seeing that arguing on any further would worsen the situation, Dean decided to bring Gerald into the Musical Dimension.

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在Kindle Store搜 The Battle : Music v.s. Silence 就有了。

非常欢迎各种意见和建议。

几岁啊！太厉害了，都能写小说了！

赞一个小弥留之际

太赞了！小梅兰竹菊

太厉害了人生赢家

没有上过校外的课程或补习班，所以没法评论你说的那个课程我儿子在GEP，所以英文课程本身比较深，要求也比较高。例如，他们的作文里注重自己的语言，用cliché（类似中文作文里我们常用的：在一个阳光明媚的星期天下午。。。）立马被扣分。又例如，他们每年对一本书做很深入的阅读，今年的是’The Giver’。这是本相当有争议的书，和同学的家长聊起这本书，成人的理解都不一致。小学生要理解更加不容易。

但不是说你一定要挑战难度，让他们保持兴趣更重要。每个小朋友的发展速度不同，擅长的项目也不同。逼他们学一些高难度可能只会磨灭他们的兴趣，切勿拔苗助长。我儿子班上也有跟得很辛苦的同学。他们的家长一定会想当年选择GEP是否正确。我们特别感谢去年的英文老师就是因为他带领同学第一次面对难度大幅提高的课程，一年后大部分同学仍然对英文课有兴趣。

能遇到好的老师真的是幸运啊小朋友很厉害！

大叔，如何能做到切勿拔苗助长呢大叔，如何能做到切勿拔苗助长呢

写的太好了小五 ！
大叔人生赢家

赞拜膜人生赢家

呵呵

我觉得就是不要勉强我们可以鼓励他学一些目前能力以上的技能，但前提是1他自己想学，2距离目前能力不太远。拿数学做个例子，他的数学还行，书本要求的可以做到，也算是有兴趣。但一到奥数（或类似）比赛，明显就不行。有时候，题目最后会拿回来。假如我做得出来的话，我会和他讲一讲思路，可以看到距离相当大。他自己也没有说我想学奥数。那抓他去学不会有结果，可能让他更加讨厌。就算了呗。学校的初选比赛，还是叫他参加。会和他说，参加的目的是见识一下不同的考试，至于结果安心做分母就行。

谢谢大叔指点你小孩不学奥数，怎么考进GEP的呢
考GEP有没有啥方法可以借鉴

借宝地得瑟一下和卖个小广告学校假期最后一天了，终于把我儿子写的一部小说发表在Kindle上了。他现在天马行空的想象力和对文字的驾驭能力，我都跟不上了。该帖荣获当日十大第6，奖励楼主8分以及12狮城帮币，时间：2017-06-27 22:00:01。