
Now it's only me and my son living in this house, with the other two gone to Japan. He decided to stay on for the summer band at school. He has two classes every morning, beginner's band and jazz band. Jazz band is what he really wants to do. If he passes the audition at the end of the summer, he can officially be a part of the jazz band. He has probably no trouble technique-wise, but the challenge is sight reading of the music scores. He is now working on it, so keep your fingers crossed for him. Every evening, he either has Judo or swimming lesson. He has never been big on swimming, but now he wants to take a surf lesson. The requirement is that you are able to to swim 50 meter comfortably. So he decided to learn the proper stroke, breathing and so forth. The life now is a lot slower and relaxing, but we already miss the other half of the family. We miss them especially for the dinner time, since having dinner as a family is the norm for us. 19 more days to endure...