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This afternoon’s master class was taught by tenor Robert Dundas, a colleague of Dr. Hardenbergh’s. As such, it was mostly tenor’s who sang in today’s class. Robert Dundas has had a very good career in Germany and Austria and is not teaching at the college level back in the states.

After class I was up in the library making flash cards (out of notebook paper) for my Deutch quiz tomorrow. We have to be able to introduce ourselves (name, age, and where from), count from 0 to 100, and we have roughly 40 nouns and 22 verbs we have to know the translation of. Week 1 has just flown by.

I left school early and came home to further study in my room. Going through flash cards lying on the bed when you’re a bit tire is a bad idea. I did end up falling asleep for a short time. Then Martina and the girls got home. Martina started preparing dinner and put Lisa to bed. Laura came into my room, and together we went through my flash cards. She was helping with my German and I, her English. Soon dinner was going to be ready so she and I headed downstairs. We ran around the yard a little chasing each other and jumped on the trampoline.

Martina made salmon with a wonderful sauce, rice, steamed veggies, and a cucumber salad, served with a wonderful white wine. It was all delicious!! After dinner Laura and I put a puzzle together. Now it is time to finish studying before bed and watch the storm that’s rolling in. The temperature which was 90-something and humid is going to drop to 72 with rain tomorrow. Then Saturday is supposed to be 65 with rain. The break from the heat will be nice, but I do wish it came without the rain.


Ciao!