| | As I'm sitting here, typing and thinking of something clever to write,
I'm listening to a cassette tape my piano teacher gave me a few weeks
ago. It has the recordings we did together a couple months ago, during
my "peak" of piano-playing . . . and it's just weird listening to it,
because it doesn't sound like me at times, yet it does during others.
Sometimes, I'm like "whoa . . . I guess that practicing did pay off"
and then when I hear a little note slip, I'm like "yeah, I would do
that . . ." (<---by the way, I hate that phrase, haha) But my point
is, as I'm listening, I realize that I have to keep up these skills
I've acquired over these twelve years. It really sucks that such
skills, as with any other musical instrument, sport, etc., could go
away so quickly after not practicing just for a week or so. Yet
it takes months, even years just to improve by a little bit. It's
frustrating, but I look back with no regrets at all. My last lesson is
gonna be next Tuesday, and I'm half excited, half dreading it. I'm
going to miss my teacher, playing those computer games that are
supposed to make you better at music theory, mastering my pieces,
performing, even messing up in front of her. It was a great experience.
On a lighter note, I'm dead excited that it's summer. I'm also kind of
amused at the current state me and peers are in right now . . . we're
high school graduates, yet we're not quite in college yet. But oh well
. . . I'm gonna enjoy myself and savor these three months (last summer
was like, six weeks) and then . . . off to UCSD I go! Yay!  Oh yeah.
Another cool thing about senior year is that everyone's cool with each
other, since everyone's moving away soon. I think I might go out for
sushi with a group of people that I didn't even talk to during high
school. Weird huh?
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