You're alive!
Hows everything going?

I am alive aha .-.

Life is incredibly busy, Mum got home from six months in hospital about six or seven weeks ago and it's all just kinda hard, especially as my relationship with her is rocky.

But how are you all doing?

Pretty good- bored as usual... my dad is getting me a mandolin though. F type.

A mandolin? That sounds really cool :0

Yeah- I'm actually excited to learn an instrument XD

Learning how to play an instrument is fun, though I think I'm not the best at the violin. I find it easier to play the piano aha

Ive never played an instrument unless you count the flute that I practiced for once a week for a year (recorder as you weirdos call it) XD

I think the recorder and flute are two different instruments? I recall the recorders from when I was 9 (an awful experience, my ears are still trying to recover) being made from plastic or something, and the flutes I see in my band are metal.

Also I just looked it up and apparently they're held differently

To Americans the flute is held sideways while the recorder is held straight- I have no idea why English speakers call it a recorder when it doesn't record- couldn't you just call it flute and have the sideways one side flute, like German and a lot more languages? Why did the people of english speaking think- oh- a front facing flute! Let's call it a recorder XD

I dunno either aha

According to this website though, the name 'recorder' comes from Latin 'recordari' etc etc