I love my husband, my daughter, my students, my dog, my garden and my home, but not always in that order. As dear as these are to me, my idea of a vacation is time away from “wife-ing,” mothering, cooking, cleaning, weeding, teaching and picking up after my dog in the yard (no small chore—I have an English Mastiff). Give me a weekend away and I’ll be a better wife, mom and teacher. Give me eleven days away and I’ll deliver world peace, convert whole tribes in New Guinea to Christianity, finally play the second page of Kreisler’s Praeludium and Allegro without missing a note, and run up Mount Whitney barefooted and backwards while knitting sweaters for children in Afghanistan. Well, OK, maybe I’d just feel I could, but isn’t believing you can do something the first step towards making it happen? (If that isn’t a Suzuki-ism, it ought to be.) If someone had told me, that in addition to getting away from my daily responsibilities, there was a place I could go where I could immerse myself in good music, finally be alone with my thoughts, make new friends, improve myself professionally, and have plain, old-fashioned, goofy fun, I would have thought it was too good to be true. Wouldn’t you? Think again! No travel agency in the world can offer you what a summer Suzuki teacher training course can.

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