Introducing myself, pentatonicscale

Hello everybody! I am a music educator living in Japan, teaching at an international school. I have been here my whole adult life and love both my job and my adopted country. My specialties in music are pipe organ, flute, and choral conducting. My favorite type of music is probably Renaissance a cappella music, but I like pretty much anything! My name pentatonicscale comes from the fact that in music education and also in folk music, the pentatonic scale is used. I love the sounds of various pentatonic scales.

Besides music, I enjoy animals in general and cats in particular, and yes, I have one. As an adult, I have had up to one dog and six cats at a time but am currently (and sadly) down to one cat. I take care of other people's pets when they go away if I happen to be around.

My next long-term hobby is linguistics and learning languages. I am fairly fluent in Japanese and can read several other languages, and enjoy making historical linguistic observations and studying etymologies. Japanese is probably the hardest language I have ever learned. As a person who enjoys language, I also enjoy writing and have been on several other online writing sites with the same name I have here. I look forward to adding content at Steemit!

Living in Japan, I have also become interested in earthquakes, especially earthquake forecasting. I learned of steemit through the earthquake forecaster who just joined this site with the username sincedutch. I am also interested in rocks and their origins (it makes for something to collect that is free) and have a few rockhound elementary students with whom I share this interest! My students are always interested, excited and amazed when they learn that their music teacher is interested in earthquakes, volcanoes, and rocks!

I will certainly be around in the near future with posts about those things that interest me. Watch for cat pictures, linguistic and cultural observations, geology and seismology, education and music! Nice to meet you. I look forward to reading other posts here!