not.in.paris

Ugh. You would not believe how much my feet hurt right now. Anyway, all in good time…time to update on the last two days.

I had my music lesson yesterday, and my teacher gave me my grade 6 certificate and mark scheme. It seems I lost the marks I did in the pieces mostly because I was playing slightly sharp and because I didn’t have enough dynamics in the first movement of the Pepusch. And I’ve found out why she started writing almost immediately after I started playing the Gaubert: her first sentence was something like ‘You captured the mood and character immediately’! And I have a new piece for recorder to learn too - a Mexican hat dance on descant - so that’ll give me something to learn over the holidays.

I had a piano lesson, too, which is my first in 3 weeks and will be my only one for another 3. She said that the piece I’d learned (which was a stage 2 piece) was perfect! Lucky me. My friend missed her lesson, so she had to  come in mine. I wasn’t very pleased about that, because she’s very competitive and when we had lessons together I didn’t enjoy them much because of that, but because we’ve been having separate lessons, we’ve been learning different pieces, so it was actually okay. She gave an absolutely terrible rendition of the Moonlight Sonata. Ho hum…I do like that piece, but not when it’s played like that. It’s one of the very few pieces of Beethoven I like.

After my music lesson, I went ice skating with a bunch of friends. I’ve only been ice skating once before in my life, and I was undeniably the worst skater there! Ah well; it was still great fun. As with the last time I went, at the beginning I could hardly stay up and by the end I was skating pretty well. One of my friends dragged me right out into the middle and we did a couple of laps, which was awesome because there’s no way I’d have the confidence to go so far out on my own! I borrowed her skates and unfortunately it turned out they were rubbing really badly, even though I couldn’t feel it at all. I’m now wearing a plaster on each foot: there’s no skin on the inside of my right foot and there’s a huge blister on the side of my left big toe =[ Poor me. It was great fun, though, and hopefully we’re going to go again in the holidays.

I’m going to switch to a new entry now for today’s trip to London, in the interest of keeping things short and upping my viewings and such. Cheery-bye.