Personal Narrative: An Interview With A Band Director

For my interview, I decided to interview my middle school band director, Mr.Woo, (George Woo). I decided to interview him because, as a teacher, he changed my life with music and taught me all about it. He molded me into who I am today as I continue music in high school and I appreciate him in many ways. Along with that, he is also in the career path that I might decide to follow in the future which is a teacher, and from what I’ve learned from him, I thought that he could once again teach me about something other than music. In many ways, I do like the career of teaching a lot and he supported the idea of me following the path, but he also showed me many flaws and hardships in the teaching position. Even though he told me all these bad things …show more content…
He also mentioned that as a music director, he has to be weary of instruments and their placements, however even though there were a lot of cons on the job, he mentioned many pros. Some pros that he listed were that you really get to see students change as they start to mature throughout the year, there are some amazing students that you get to know very well even though they leave you to better things later, you get to see students succeed to better things and some students even come back to say hi once in awhile and finally he said “Even though I only have students for two years, some for one even, I get to change their lives with music and really see them smile every time they play their instruments or sing.” After having this interview with my former teacher, I believe that this is one of the most likely career paths that I will decide to pursue. Even though there are many cons that come with the job, the fact that there are also so many great things about it as well intrigues