Thread:Chloe27/@comment-28612184-20171031194809/@comment-33437691-20171104004956

Hello again! I had a go at the tongue twister; it's really cute.

Sara: you'll definitely appreciate sticking to your goal. I was an RN in Tasmania, Australia. It was hospital based training, so I got at least 6 weeks in every area of the hospital, barring the laundry and the kitchen, so that included at stint in the OR (it was called "theatre" there). Mostly it was assisting the head nurse (and cleaning the theatres after each surgery), but once or twice I got to 'sit' with the anesthetist. I can't remember if he had an RN with him (they were called 'sisters', trainees were called nurses) or if they just had interns or residents with them...'twas a long time ago. So I fully appreciate the schooling you're going through, and how hard it must seem to be, taking over your life etc etc. (You're right, you're doing an excellent job if you're getting marks like that! Bravo!) But that will all change when you graduate; then you'll be an overworked, underappreciated...just kidding! My nursing was cut short: marriage, a baby, a divorce--and wham, I was on my own, so eventually I went back to university to do...ugh...accounting, in order to support my kid. It takes its toll doing something that is so far from one's inner nature, but he's grown and gone now.

As for the two hand thing with the piano, yeah, it's a toughie. I've learned as an adult, and fortunately I started with a teacher who knew I could read music, however slowly, so she gave me pieces that I would eventually love playing--far past any skill I had, but bar by bar I've learned several Chopin preludes, 2 movements of the Moonlight Sonata and 3 pages into the 3rd, which is ridiculously hard but sooooo much fun to (pretend) to play :-). I even played at a wedding, but when I say I'm a pianist, I'm really stretching the definition. I learn the pieces I want to play and err very much on the side of ignoring theory and practicing scales.  You've got enough on your hands already.   Must go! Chat later.