WELCOME BACK, beginnings of a harper

Many times people have told me that they look for me when they come to Ben Yehuda. Last night, Mark and his wife from Texas(?) said they saw me on their first trip to Israel in 2001 and have seen me on every trip since then. This is thier 7th trip. Mark insists that I was playing harp the first time they saw me. My first harp I didn't get until Dec. 2000. For the first few months I couldn't think about anything else. Not good when I still had 2 weeks of ulpan left. (Ulpan is intensive Hebrew class) Finally ulpan was over and I could really focus on my harp without guilt. But I was living in Tel Aviv and I wanted to move to Jerusalem so after a few months I forsed myself to put my harp in the closet (literally). So 2 months looking for a place, 2 months moving, and then a little more time settling in, almost a half year of not playing. You see, I couldn't play because once I started I couldn't do anything else. So now I'm in my apartment of one room, bathroom and kitchen outside, (with my 2 cats), but it was really hard getting back into the harp because everything I had worked on had disappeared but it was worse than starting all over ecause I had the feeling that I should b able to play something, but I couldn't. Well, slowly I kept at it I couldn't wait to take the harp to the street(I had been a street musician for a number of years now, first violin, then recorder) ,so much before I was ready, out we went, harp and I. It wasn't too bad untill somebody came up to me looking at me like they expected me to play something. Then my fingers just forgot all of the little bit they knew, and I felt like such a fool. And even more so when they asked what I could play, or better yet, for a specific song. So when Mark said they saw me in 2001 playing a harp, I really wonder just what they heard.