Phamagination: Day 4 - My German teacher knows I speak Vietnamese by how I say "Ich"!

Mittwoch/Wednesday

8:30 - 9:00 - Warm-up at Music School

9:00 - 10:00 - Coaching with Eckhart Sellheim on some Mörike-Lieder

10:00 - 11:30 - Learn Three Penny Opera songs

11:30 - 1:00 - Rehearse with Thorsten and practice Moszkowski etude

1:00 - 2:00 - Bike to Back Factory for some lunch with Thorsten

2:00 - 3:15 - Meeting at Alta Menscha (Old Cafeteria building) with Dr. Maddison about using the building there for rehearsals, shows, lessons, etc.

3:30-4:55 - German lesson/me staying after class to ask more questions

5:00-6:00 - Dinner with Brian

6:00-6:30 - Sitting on a bench looking up German words

6:30-7:00 - Practice Liszt etude

7:00-9:45 - I realized I was too tired to do anything producitve so I stopped practicing and ended up biking through town and getting dessert with David

9:50 - I thought about learning the 30-40 Mörike-Lieder being done this summer and offering to play them for the course rather than just working on the 6 or 7 I volunteered

9:55 - Started listening to the Mörike-Lieder from the beginning of the book

10:00 - decided it would be prudent not to attempt playing all of those Mörike-Lieder this summer

As I mentioned, I stayed after German class today to ask the teacher some questions. He said my German was good and encouraged me to keep at it. He also asked me without my prompting if I speak Vietnamese. He was able to tell by my dialect, specifically by the way I pronounce "ich." That is such a strange phenomenon to me. I am very thrilled to keep at learning this language. If I gave myself an afternoon, I think I could really figure some stuff out.

However.

Between yesterday and today, I've received 12 arias from the Three Penny Opera and The Beggar's Opera (Britten), and I need three more scores for a total of 15 to learn by Saturday in order to play for a coach. I've got a lot of note-learning to do! German language learning will just have to be squeezed into my dictionary walks.