From: Doris Brown <tsingtao@eurotraveler.biz>
Date: August 25, 2007 12:19:46 AM EDT
To: Len <len@eurotraveler.biz>
Subject: Re: Chapter 1953 Piano Teacher

Hi  Nen
     I only know that he was     DR.  Rieder  ( not in med )   He taught  " Something " , probably  German  in one of the Tsingtao  schools      Short, chubby , bald  and Zero  personality !   I did  Not  see him often at all  , When   I went in for my lessons    from  Kiaohsien, he was in an other room  or at a   school     Very poor chinese  ,but must of known some  Chinese characters or he would not have gotten into Korea , BUT   he might of been  translating in English  ???????Too  dumb for that too !!!!!!!!
     I know that  Morfar was shocked   to see him there ,but  I didn't know WHY  he was shocked     He only knew him through  me !( and  that  Mrs Rieder  as my teacher) ,  I do not know  if he ever had met him before ?????
    Not Christians  as far as I know     She was   a nervous  wreck with  nerve trembles  in her face all the time !!!!!!  I probably   put some of them there  !!!!!!!!!
    She made her students  learn Bach ,Shuman etc   by  heart !!!!  When  I would loose my   place ,where the heck  I was in Shumans  music  I would say  :"  Where am I  ,:"  and with a smart alack face she would answere  :"you are in Tsingtao China" !!!!!!!!!!     GRRRRRRR  Sometimes I would come with frozen hands  because  of terrible cold winters   and   she would  NOT offer me anything  hot to drink , just sit   down  and play the scales for 10 min !!!!  She could really be  qualified  as "bitchey"
Got to go to bed  ,I am beat
love you  lots
deine  Mutter