December 19, 2004 at 8:27 PM

Oh well, capitalists are smart, so the bank didn't actually end up giving me books for Christmas...in fact, I think they charged another 1000 forints or so to make the correction about my stipend. Grr.

In other news... Oh gosh, my lesson went terribly today. I don't know what happened. At three o'clock my pieces were perfect, but by five (after I'd been waiting for my teacher about 2 hours, talking to his parents) they'd turned into...how can I say this without offending anyone...ah, mush? Yes, mush. It was as equivalent to having dropped my math homework into a puddle such that the ink disappeared. A pile of wet paper with no trace of having done anything at all. I was very upset.

I think my teacher was upset too. He's very patient most of the time, but I can tell when he's disappointed with my performance. *sigh* How can a student make it up to a teacher when the lesson goes so badly? I mean, this was beyond "practice the homework for next time" bad. This was really bad.

Or at least that's the way I feel.

On the other hand, I'm really looking forward to having lots of time in the next few weeks for practicing. With Mr. Mozart as a semiteacher, maybe I'll be able to teach myself some new tricks.

Hmm... Back to the practice/lesson thoughts... I can't get the timing right if I don't hear the song as a whole in my head. I'm not to the point yet where I can just look at the music and sing/hear it in my head. With the piano gone from the apartment (they took it away to be restored on Friday) I can't even play the notes anymore. This is a problem. Sightreading may be something that comes with time, but is there some way to speed up the training for it? My idea-factory says "find the sheet music to pieces of which you have recordings and follow along with it." How do they do it in the academies?

Math, yes, that's what I'm really supposed to be doing in Budapest, but I have the urge to put myself on the fast track for violin. I suppose that's a rant for my other blog, though.

FYI, I use this blog just for violin thoughts. If you want to read about the rest of my life, you can check out my other journal. It isn't very exciting, but I often feel that I need to have content in my posts here, whereas at livejournal I don't.

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