tuesday and wednesday: linden trees, oatmeal bread and recitals

for the past two weeks the weather has been very comfortable: in the 70's with the hottest being about 80 or 81. for the past week the linden trees have been blooming. the city smells sweet and heady.

yesterday, morgana was up early to practice her guitar and work on her teachers' end of year cards, and ancient greek history. then she went off to babysit. chanda practiced her violin (she had her recital this evening) and did her schoolwork . .

 

geometry . . 

 

 and six-fold symmetry.

today i made a maple oatmeal bread for chanda's violin teacher, and a small one for us to have with breakfast. i haven't baked a sweet bread in awhile. it was good to have again.

afterwards, it was time to finally finish writing out their teachers' end of year cards.

chanda used her stationery she received as a prize at morgana's birthday party, which morgana had made. morgana used the italian stationery she received as a birthday gift.

 

deychen surprised us at third street for chanda's recital.

 she played vivaldi's concerto in a minor, second movement.

 

 afterwards, we went with greg to amorino, an ice cream/coffee shop on university and tenth street.

 the girls had ice cream, but greg and i had coffee. i just wasn't in an ice cream mood, but greg had had his quota earlier at work!

i had to go uptown then, to meet morgana for her ballet school evaluation.

 

we had to wait a little bit. they were running late. when we went in, all but one of her teachers were there. we found out that they are promoting her to the next level, but would still like her to take two level d classes to continue to build her strength with her pointe work, and her confidence with center combinations. the face she is making here is because she remembered something that she was supposed to do before going to annapolis tomorrow . . i think.

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so, yes. we leave for annapolis thursday morning at 11:35 am. we're taking the train from penn station. we'll be visiting my cousin for a few days before she and her husband fly to scotland for their son's graduation from st. andrew's. we'll then spend time with her dad and hopefully get to watch the graduation on the internet on tuesday the 19th, if she can get it hooked up before they leave!