My mother has invented the aubergine cream and I'm eating that every evening, at dinner. Unfortunately, I can't have it in the morning because there is garlic in this mixture, so my mouth smells afterwards. Besides the garlic and the aubergine, it consists of butter, uncooked eggs, lemon, oil, mustard, salt and pepper. Winning combination. I used to eat this plant covered with breadcrumbs and fried in oil but now I have got to know another aspect of this respectable creature.
And I have invented the nut butter on my own. I didn't know that it's nothing else but mashed nuts. We had guests yesterday, who were actually my brother-in-law's parents who came to see the dvd about the newly weds' wedding ceremony and to take a copy. Among others, there were some hazel nuts on the table and I put the remains into a labour saving device to grind. The result was some sticky material, which actually looked disgusting but it tasted fine. But you have to be very careful because it's very easy to lick an amount that makes your stomach upset. If you yet eat that amount, you become very thirsty after a short time and the water, you swallow, drastically extends the volume of that mass in your stomach. I tried to mix it with scrambled eggs this morning but it was not a good idea because the taste disappeared.
By the way, I was very frightened yesterday two times. My brother-in-law's four-year-old nephew also visited us and he was bored with watching the scenes of the marriage. And I took care of him sometimes when he went out or to the upstairs to find some entertainment. He found my guitar and we sat down to make some noise. Yes, I deliberately wrote this word because he wasn't willing to try to play a normal tune. Although the "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" wouldn't have been hard even for him. I could have pressed the strings down and he only would have had to pick just two strings in the right order. But he was rather interested in making loud noise. I was frightened for the first time at this point because sometimes he picked the strings so rudely that I believed they would be snapped immediately. And it would have been remarkably embarassing because I didn't have spare strings and I was going to have my first guitar lesson on the next day (today). And I was frightened again when they were leaving but he got so hot that he was sweltering and his face was red. And his grandparents were uncomprehending because he hadn't run too much. They were guessing that if he was feverish. And suddenly I recalled that we had been out on the terrace for a while, where the floor is covered with tiles and we had been walking there barefoot (I mean we had been wearing only stocks). It hadn't been too cold at all but who knows how the little children deal with the temperature at their feet? Finally they left. Although my sister and his husband didn't consider this thing so dangerous, I had a largely unslept night, full of guilty conscience. Now, I have calmed down because one day has passed and there isn't any problem, as I know.
Today I had my first lesson at my music teacher. I didn't stayed for long because we couldn't do much as I'm a music illiterate. But I have learnt that the sound notes are signed with seven letters namely such as C, D, E, F, G, A, B and then C again. Note B is indicated with the letter H in the Hungarian practice. These whole notes or semibreves make one octave. Between E and F as well as H and C, there aren't half notes or minims. (As I know, there are quarter notes or crotchets, too, but we didn't studied them on this first lesson)
The fingerboard can be found on the neck of the guitar and you use the fingers of your left hand to press down the strings between the frets. There are six strings for the notes E, A, D, G, B and E again (at one octave up) on the guitar. If you place your finger two frets farther from a position, you get the next whole note. When you arrive at a whole note, which is followed by a half note (or minim), you must take right the next fret (that's to say, you mustn't skip one fret) to get it. And there's another trick. You mustn't skip one fret neither, when you are at a whole note, which isn't followed by a half note.
So, I'm now able to find every semibreve and minim on the guitar; I only have to count a lot. This is my first homework, anyway. I will have to be able to find any (randomly selected) notes by the next Sunday. For this, I have to learn the strings of the guitar and the order of the notes there and back by heart. I must do picking a lot, as well. I got two orders of notes to practice on. My first experience is that my ring finger is very retarded; I must work with it a lot. It also turned out that my guitar wasn't tuned well, so he tuned it by rotating the tuning heads or pegs on the headstock.