佳佳因为搬家的关系，也因为妈妈比较挑剔，换了不少钢琴老师。有一个钢琴老师很特别。是个美国人嫁给一个苏联人。妈妈当时选她是因为觉得苏联老师太严格，但特别有乐感。美国老师太松，但知道怎么鼓励孩子学音乐的积极性。这个有着苏联人的性的美国老师可能是好的折衷。事实证明这是一个好的选择，不是因为我的想当然，而是因为这个老师非常好，非常爱佳佳。下面是我给一个朋友推荐该老师的电子邮件。
Jiajia’s piano teacher Mrs Mary Sadovnikoff is very good. I simply love her. She treats Jiajia as her own grandchild. She is also very knowledgeable and musical. I heard she is an authority pianist in RI who interprets Mozart’s music the best. And she is able to give out concerts in her eighties. She used to teach Jiajia at her home studio and I love the feeling of that: the old and young pianists work together, sometimes on one piano, sometimes on two pianos, while I lie on the sofa either listening to the music or falling asleep. It is a very quiet and warm scene J I was pregnant at that time, and whenever I fell asleep during the lesson, Mary would protest that her and jiajia’s music shouldn’t be that boring – she doesn’t know that I am immune to music J these are some of my fond memories of her lessons. Because of her, Jiajia told me that she wants to marry a pianist or someone who could play an instrument because those would be people who are nice and calm like Mary. And Mama is not calm at all because she doesn’t know how to play an instrument L
