Wow, have I found a treasure!! Actually, Clarissa found it for me but it's still exciting all the same. Yesterday during Carlos's piano lesson in the afternoon, Clarissa came in with a huge stack of music and told me that they were about to throw a box away (they're reorganizing the library after its move) but they found all this music. As I looked through the stack, I got soo excited! One thing that I have been specifically looking for was in the stack-a book of 6 Clementi sonatinas! Carlos's hands are so small that he can't reach an octave, and 7ths are pretty difficult for him, and it's quite a challenge to find music that challenges him but doesn't have huge stretches for his hands. Also in the stack were books 1-5 of the John Thompson piano method, plus Teaching Little Fingers to play and Book 1 in Spanish. More exciting stuff!! Besides the Clementi, the most exciting thing in the stack was 5-6 copies of the music magazine "The Etude" from different months in 1940-1942, as well as one from 1949! There are many different articles with specifics for different instruments, question and answer columns, book reviews, new pieces of music, and some of the most interesting things are the ads. One article that was interesting was about "new" recording technology. Anyway, I'm looking forward to wading through the rest of the stack of magazines-I've really enjoyed the ones I've already ben able to look at. Carlos says the only time he's ever seen someone as excited as I was when I saw all that music was when he watched "Trading Spaces"
After school yesterday, Mrs. Santana and Carlos took me home, and before they dropped me off, we went to a neat store that's within walking distance of home-a cake store. They have everything you could ever imagine possibly needing to make, decorate, and store a cake. All kinds of decorations, tools to decorate, ways to display, different types of pans, frostings, fillings, ingredients, etc. Anyway, a pretty cool store that I look forward to going back to some day when I have a functioning oven that's of a decent size. Right now, I have to settle for the toaster oven, where at least I can make cookies, even though it's only 5-6 at a time. I can tell you that makes life interesting especially since I really have a problem making single batches of anything-it's a good day when I can hold myself to a double instead of a triple batch. =)
My order from Bath and Body Works came yesterday! Finally! Ok, so it wasn't really that long, especially by Puerto Rican standards-a little under 2 weeks. It was exciting for 2 reasons-first, Janice's birthday present got here before Janice's birthday, and second, there are no Bath and Body Works stores here in PR, so it's really nice to have some of the stuff.
I'm doing tons of work on the spring program. We'll see if it actually comes together-every year/season, I'm convinced it will never work, but it always does.
One more thing-I was able to have a good talk with Jorge on Monday. He got saved in December after one of his piano lessons, and on Monday he was really struggling with forgiveness towards a classmate. Pray that he gets ahold of the concept-bitterness and hate are so nasty and hurtful, and that's not just to the person they're against. I shared with him several verses about forgiveness, and even encouraged him to pray for the boy, who really does need the prayer.
Spring break is coming up in a couple of weeks, and I'm excited because I'm looking forward to our traditional trip to Culebra, hopefully for some good snorkeling, and gorgeous view on the ferry ride over and on the beach as well.
