大有希望 With great hope

今天去聽了一整天的master class，Vivian 也在其中一堂演奏了。聽完以後感覺好多了，有人跑來對我說她彈得真好，老師對她的評語很不錯，我自己也偷偷地覺得她彈得比許多人都好（嘻嘻），加上老師們說的概念都與她所彈得接近，所以相信她是行在正確的道路上（on the right track），看起來還是很有希望的！昨天籠罩在頭上的烏雲都一掃而空。
有一個男孩子彈得真是不錯，一個評審，也是今天其中一個教課的老師問他今天彈得和昨天比起來如何，相信這位老師也覺得意外他為何沒被選進決賽。但由於昨天大家都只能彈一些片段，其實不是很準確公平的比賽，所以他說了一句話：「你知道比賽就是這樣。」

We went to listen in the whole-day master class today, Vivian also performed in one of the sessions. I felt much better after her performance. Someone came over and told me that she played very well; the teacher had very good comments on her playing; I also secretly felt that she was much better than a lot of other kids; plus most of the suggestions and recommendations from other teachers (to other students) match what she is doing/has learned, so I believe she is on the right track. Everything looks good again!
There was one young man who played very well in the master class today. One of the adjudicators who taught the master class asked him how it compared to his playing from yesterday (I believe he was surprised that he wasn't picked as a finalist). Because they were only allowed to play excerpts yesterday so it wasn't always a "fair" competition, thus the adjudicator said "you know that's the way a competition is."