開心地喝完隆元的招牌咖啡，凱歌園的車就來接我了。（應該有人會想問我到底隆元付我多少錢打廣告，答案是沒有，我只是享受這間店的老闆員工與產品，希望他們能一直順利地經營下去。）
After the shot of House Special at Long-Yuan, the van from Agape House arrived. (Perhaps you would love to know how much Long-Yuan paid me for advertisement? The answer is not at all. It's just my innocent gioia provided by their food, drinks, employees and employers. I hope that they can keep it up as long as possible.)
凱歌園跟少家很不一樣，首先是座落於更偏僻的地點，主建物四、五樓高，旁邊零星輔建物，外圍完全沒有柵欄或圍牆。大概是正好碰到社工與輔導人員支援其他活動，進去後沒碰到學員以外的對象。
Agape House is very different from MS Youth Home. First, it locates at a more rural place. There's an about 5 story main building with few 1 story constructions around. There are no fences or gates around at all. My timing wasn't good that I only met 2 adults during the whole trip.
凱歌園的男孩們每一位都散發強烈存在感，從他們的衣著、髮型，與言行表露無遺。很多學生上課勇於發言、提問（我喜歡學生有反應，即使是來亂的，我也聽得很開心），有些學生甚至能正中我設計好的＂正確答案＂。
Every student from Agape House has his strong existence shown from the clothing, hair style, language and body movement. Many students dared to express, to question, and to challenge.(I love students who respond. I am happy even when my students are saying nonsense.) Some of the students actually got the "correct answers" to the questions I designed.
第一堂課一直有學生進進出出，一開始還能記名字，到最後我的腦袋變成一團漿糊。簡單講了一下五線譜與五線譜上的記號。我說不用太擔心調性，若這些都看懂，至少已經能戳出所有音符了！我穿梭於白板與鋼琴間，偶爾解釋，偶爾彈作曲家片段，讓大家能看著白板上冷冰冰的線條與圖案，轉換作曲家二元世界至僅存當下的愛恨情仇。
There are people coming and going throughout my first hour. I could remember some names at the beginning, and by the end, my brain turned into a mush. I only introduced them staff, two clefs, and sharps and flags. I told them, "Not to worry about keys yet. If you understand all these, you can already poke out every note from the score already". I shuffled beteen the white board and the piano. Sometimes I explained, and sometimes I played the actual fragments just to make the students feel transformation from composers' two dimensional world with cold lines and symbols into the only-at-the-moment vivid love and hatred.
第二堂課只剩兩隻小貓，我指出中央Do在剛琴與譜上的位置，寫出一個八度Do大調音階，教他們基本音階琶音指法並解釋練習這些指法以及指法編排的原因。分別看他們彈，講述整體放鬆姿勢、如何預測預備以便彈下一個或下一群音符...
There were only two students left in the second half. I pointed the location of middle C at the piano and on the staff. I wrote an octave scale of C major. I taught them basic fingerings of the scale and the arpeggio. I told them why practicing scales is important and how the fingerings come along. I watched them try separately, taught them how to maintain a more relaxed posture, and how to predict and prepare for the next (group of) note(s)...
時光飛逝，於是我彈了些C大調音樂，然後跟他們說這兩週必須要練習並手寫C大調音階琶音四個八度，我下次上課時會隨便指譜上音符要他們馬上在鋼琴上找出來。另外，我要他們自己寫出G大調音階與琶音，同時先練G大調四個八度音階與琶音。
Time flew by, I played more C major music, and gave them some assignment. They have to practice and write out C major scale(with arpeggio) in four octaves. Next time, I'll point at notes on the sheet and ask them to find them asap on the piano. Other than that, I asked them to figure out what a G major scale and arpeggio in writing and in playing and of course in 4 octaves.
下次上課計畫主軸
少家：＂...＂的創作
凱歌：譜的簡單運用與創作（使用鋼琴與爵士鼓顯示出譜上節奏與時間的概念）
Main ideas for my next classes:
MSYH: What "..." could be
AH: Simple use of the score (Use the drumkit and the piano to demonstrate the concepts of time and rhythm)
是的，在凱歌園下課與坐火車回高雄之間，我又跑去隆元喝杯咖啡，哈哈！
And yes, after I dismissed the class and before I took the train back to KS, I went back to Long-Yuan for another cup of coffee again, Bwahahahaha!
