WHISPERING

At last I am writing in my new Livejournal! I got a bit overwhelmed playing with the different colors and settings, it really is quite a marvelous thing. I found the most charming 'font' with the stangest name: "Honey, I Stole Your Jumper." I'm using it for my whole journal now! Perhaps you all should "download" it as well, it's quite nice.  

I have just finished reading everyone else's writings of the meet-up, and it has made me so happy to recall it now! I only hope I am not simply repeating things with my own account  :) I am so so thankful that Mama allowed me to go, it was the most fun I've had in ages! I hardly know where to begin. First of all the food was simply wonderful, there were all sorts of delicious things...Georg even brought apple strudel, my very favorite!! I made a mess of myself eating one of Melchior's eclairs, but it was so good that I scarcely cared about staining my dress (and I dare say that was a lost cause anyhow, once the grapes went flying every which way!) Thea's sweetmeats were a delight as well, and the lemon juice and assorted fruits were wonderfully refreshing after all the pastry. I was quite upset when the neighbor's dog got at the rote grütze that I was going to bring, but I suppose it was my fault for leaving it on the sill so carelessly. I will just have to bring something especially good the next time!

It was so nice to be with everyone together in one place and hear about all of your lives...too many of you I had not seen for quite some time!  Ilse's new life in Priapia sounds fascinating, and she seems so lighthearted now -- I worried for her terribly when she first left town, so I am gladdened that things have worked out for her so well. Hanschen and Ernst appear very happy together as well; I've never known a pair of boys who courted each other before, but it looks to be a wonderful match between them.

The music was beautiful, I was very impressed by Georg's skill at the piano and Anna has such a lovely voice! They sounded heavenly together. My favorite part was when we all sang together, and I must say I think we should do so more often! It was great fun and I thought we sounded awfully nice. Perhaps we could all perform together at a town festival, or some such thing. The most fun of all though was when Ilse had the idea of playing pirates, just like when we were little children! I loved running about dueling with crooked sticks, and wearing the silly paper hats (I made a little tear in mine where I could a flower in, because I of course was a lovely pirate maiden). It was a shame that dear Moritz fell out of the crow's nest (the tree that is) -- the life of a swashbuckler is certainly risky! All the same I would gladly pretend it each and every day. ♥

Afterwards I walked home with Melchior and Moritz. I was quite interested to hear of the essays they were writing in school, all about the lives of the Africans and Bohemians. Some of the things they told me were quite peculiar, but much of it was just enchanting, like a fairy-tale -- only somewhere else in the world it is real, and to them we are the fairies! Exotic things like that are just so thrilling to me, I wish that one day I might be able to see them for myself.

Anyway, when I got home Mama was not at all pleased to see the state of me, with my hair gone so wild and my dress all wrinkled and damp from the lake (oh, I forgot that part but of course you all remember!), though at least it had washed away some of the stains and the stickiness. She made quite a fuss, but I think she was settled a bit after I told her how much amazing fun it had been. At least she did not forbid me from attending other meet-ups in the future! We simply must set up another straight away :)

who made me so:

cheerful