Lily Audition 27th January!

Yesterday I had a great time, with Luis, our friend Leon, and my little start Lily! We are very interested in her entrance in this music school. I must confess that I felt a little bit nervous in middle of audition, mother’s heart!   

The first audition from Edinburgh Music School went in Flora Primary School, in Edinburgh. It is a big school, a 19^th century building with an impressive size and very comfortable classrooms. We were received by the director and the music teacher, who show us the music room.

Lily played tree pieces in her cello and made some exercises with the teacher. The director did a small interview, to confirm if she really likes music and to play it, witch we assist all and we were very proud to hear her answers in English.

During the audition it was possible to observe how they liked the performance. Lily did a wonderful job and definitely they were impressed with her! 

Dreams must be prepared; we made the first step to achieve this goal, which started in November 2010. We will have one more audition in March; I hope she can do it well again!    

IF.

R. Burns Night!

This is my little tribute to the writer and poet Robert Burns, as he has been remembered this week here in Scotland. He was born on 25 Jan. 1759 and left a great poetic work and some romances.

“No more is more charismatic than R. Burns passionate, intelligent and a consummate wordsmith; he is the world’s most popular love poet…”

“Burns, an admirer of Shakespeare and English literature as well as a patriotic

loner of Scotland and Scottish literature delighted in being hailed as Scotland

bard…”

In The Robert Burns Biography, Robert Crawford.

While shopping I came across two books, one was an enormous poetry book and the other was a thin children’s story book which I bought and we have been reading. And you know where we found them?

Here, in a very known shop near my house, I mean in Lidl ! Do you now a better place to hit people than a supermarket?

The children’s book is one good way to reach some authors, mainly when you are dealing with a new language. It was my daughter Lily who discovered them and sharply asked me if we could buy it, so, of course, I consent.

I thought to myself, if I try to satisfy such solicitations, as part of my

education plan for my daughter, she will become interested in reading, right?

With so much advertising about games like PSPs and Nintendos, it has not been

hard to keep her away of such objects and makes her became more interested in

books.

I wonder why the TV ads don’t promote books. Isn’t reading culture important?

I have learned a lot from reading with Lily. And by doing this, I am "killing two

birds with one stone"!

 IF

Nota: Esta noite é uma noite que os escoceses se deliciam com um dos pratos mais famosos por aqui, o Haggis! Infelizmente o nosso jantar Haggis, teve de ficar adiado para o proximo fds, temos mesa reservada para cinco no sábado, deixo aqui registado esse momento, prometido!

One of Resolution for 2011,

I will take this blog as one of my resolutions for 2011.This space represents a great challenge for me, because it'll expose my level of English, which is nascent but improving. All I understand as relevant or simple curiosities, In My Tibet, I mean Edinburgh; I will brought here to be written and described.
I am above all a dreamer, who is making a child of six years dream also; and my husband, who likes stability, but accept to embark on this adventure. Today, after five months of our departure from Portugal, when I think on this adventure I can conclude that it was an attitude which revealed a large dose of courage!

IF.