During the preparation for the entrance exams, I fortunately got used to the open system of keys in less than a month, I enjoyed playing immensely, played some great pieces, and fortunately managed to remove the fixed dental braces that had already messed up my lower lip.
The months of preparation passed too quickly, followed by the entrance exams and the matura exams. Everyday looked pretty much the same, practice and study, while helping at home in between. When the exams were behind me, a heavy burden has rolled away. I managed to do as well as I could with the amount of work I had to do, and then I just waited for the results.
 
Finally July came and with it the results.
The matura exams were not a problem at all, the tension was more in the air because of the faculty I had chosen. We were all expecting the right outcome “anyway”, i.e. acceptance to the desired faculty (Academy of music – Flute). Well, I could have learnt by now that with me, not everything is straightforward and “easy”… But to clarify the dilemma, the University of Ljubljana informed me that I had been accepted to the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. 
At that moment, my whole world came crashing down. Again. Disappointed, angry, sad, despairing, there is no feeling that I didn’t feel that day… At the same time, the realisation dawned on me that my parents had bought me an expensive instrument and that it was not fair to them, or to myself, to just let things go and give up.
To be clear, studying law was not an option at all, as this idea was “planted” in my mind from the surroundings, but fortunately I found a solution at the right time. This solution sounds completely crazy, but in fact that’s exactly what happened…

In July, the month of the university enrolment, I didn’t enrol. So in August I started intensive piano lessons, which I played for a year and a half with Mateja Praprotnik, and so I jumped “just a little” from Slovenian folk to Czerny etudes and Mozart, and a few other composers. Why? Because I decided to enrol at the Academy of Music, this time in Music Pedagogy.
So the jump in repertoire was “no problem at all”, I just had to practice for about 8 hours a day to learn everything by the September entrance exam. It was indeed, a real Stations of the Cross for all involved…

It was the day of the entrance exams and the aptitude test, which was conducted by different professors. That day I had a really great time, because everything flowed easily. As far as the piano was concerned, all I remember was that I was scared to death.

But in the end, accepted! And indescribably happy and grateful for another opportunity I was given.

To be continued . . . 💛