Then he asked me how my thanksgiving was and how I got there. I told him that the traveling part was easy compared to his trip... direct flight to DC and my dad picked me up at the airport. I mentioned that things were going a lot better with me and my family, and how I ended up visiting them 4 times this past summer. I told B that I had been trying to connect to my family however they wanted to connect instead of trying to get them to connect the way *I* wanted them to connect. I mentioned that in the past when I tried to coach them on how to connect with me, my family would just get really discouraged and dejected, so I was trying something different so there would actually be a connection. I communicated all of this very *lightly*.
I said that this trip was more stressful than the visits over the summer, probably because I was actually trying to get work done. I explained that I had a sightsinging final today, and because I hadn't really been practicing my sightsinging during the semester, I decided to spend the thanksgiving break memorizing the two chapters of melodies that the test would be based on. B groaned sympathetically. And when I told him I got a 97 percent today he was excited!!