it's been a while, huh? i've actually been meaning to update this thing with various stories, but i've just never gotten around to actually getting it done. sorry about that.
well for the past few days, my family has been on vacation. well, let me put questioning quotation marks around the word "vacation." whenever i happened to tell someone that i was going to the state of arkansas for vacation, i'd get 1 of 2 reactions. they would either start chuckling or just stare at me blankly.
i can only assume that the first reaction is because they thought i was joking. the second one, i guess they were just waiting for the punchline.
my family and i went to arkansas to visit my dad's host family. it was my grandma's (host family grandma) 80th birthday, so we drove up to surprise her. let me just say one thing: when i am 80, i hope i have old 80-year-old friends to invite to my birthday party because it was pretty awesome being at hers. makes me wonder who i'll be hanging out with when i'm 80.
everytime we're there, grandma likes having someone play piano for her. so the first night we were there, while we were eating cake, she asked me to play piano for her.
grandma: play some piano for me, jonathan!
me: i don't know how..
grandma: go sit over there and play!
me: alright, you want me to play?
i stroll over to the piano and start playing "mary had a little lamb." perfectly, as a matter of fact. everyone laughs a bit, and then i finish the song.
grandma: play me a real song!
me: no, seriously, i don't know how..
grandma: how old are you?
me: 23.
grandma: then you're old enough to play me a real song!
all this while the rest of my family is just sitting there laughing. my knowledge of the piano consists of 2 weeks of lessons when i was about 5. so unless she wanted me to play "twinkle twinkle" or another rendition of mary and her little lamb, i was not the man for the job.
so this exchange of lines went on for a few more minutes, until she finally gave up. now i look like a jerk who wouldn't play the piano for a sweet 80-year-old woman on her birthday.
on a different note, happy new year! you'll hear from me later.
