German trip to the Christmas market is cancelled...gutted.

It's  been rescheduled for spring, and we'll have something else to do, but it really is a shame. I was really excited. A lot of people are saying they might not go in spring, because it wont be the christmas market. This made me realise that I was excited for a completely different reason to everyone else. I was excited because it's, well germany! I have a weird passion/obsession with the country. I just love being there. It took me a while to realise me wanting to go even without the market so much has so much to do with the country. I just love the culture, the people, the language.

On another note, my dad got us some donuts from the "Co-operative" today, as a pudding and I think partially to cheer me up :)
But that's not the point. What's astonishing, is what it said on the bag. I have it here, ripped out as proof.

Yep, you read it right. Basically, may contain traces of celery, crustaceans, fish lupin and molluscs.

Now, I'm not entirely sure what lupin is, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't ever want any of those other products in my jam doughnut.

I politely declined (molluscs = not good for veggies, and I avoid fish where possible, plus it was a bit weird) and tore off the label. Who would've thought?

Does make you wonder what they're doing with molluscs though....

I had a really successful flute lesson today :)

Having attempted the flute on Monday evening (and completely failed to produce a sound, due to my braces) I was so disheartened I didn't bother trying again this week. But, I did continue trying to find a mouth position at any opportunity - on the train, in French lessons, whenever really - and I went to my lesson, got my flute out, and managed to play d major fine. And f major. And I even reached the high A in A major :) that's soooo good! Will definitely practice loads now, to perfect it. And I'm going to try to refuse a bottom brace, because I don't need it, they just thought they'd do it while they were straightening my top teeth anyway. Apparently a bottom brace makes it really, really hard. So I'll try to avoid that at all costs.

Alicia xx