Gearing up to get out today.

I do have to note that yesterday was the last piano lesson of the semester (I restart in January). My teacher gave me some new stuff to work on, as she was searching through her books (she loans out books as long as you are working on a piece - and some books we buy), she said, "Oh, here's a good piece for you. It's kind of long but it's a sonatina and it has key changes and tempo changes in it so it will be interesting to work on for a while"

I had to laugh when I saw what she had picked. It was the Clementi Sonatina in C, which was the most complex piece I had worked on (I never totally mastered it) back when I first took lessons as a 13 year old. Part of it is that I know I've now reached at least the level of achievement I had then, but the other part of it is that my teacher sort-of randomly (but sort-of not; I suspect the Clementi Sonatina is a common early-intermediate piano student piece) chose a piece that I knew and had played on before. (In fact, I even still have the sheet music for it from then - it was in the big box of sheet music my mom sent me when I got the piano.)

Yeah, I think I'll keep working on the piano. It's been almost a year and it's really become a part of my life. Some nights it's a little bit of an effort to get the practicing in (though trying to do 20 minutes before going over to school in the morning helps). But I still find a certain joy in being able to master a piece, or in starting something new.