Hi!
I've to introduce myself, I guess

I LOVE piano. And I LOVE Chopin.
But let me introduce my... huh... story.
I started learning piano when I was 6. I also started learning "general music" (sol-fa?) the same year. The problem were teachers. I learn piano alone, and "general music" with 3 classmates (gradually they quit and I was also alone, until I was 8-9 or so and quit).
We had 3 "general music" teachers, all of them lovely and we learnt a lot. God, I learnt how sharps work when I was 6, and we (at school) learnt that when we were 14!
My piano teacher was horrible. He plays the violin, but has all the piano techniques that you can have. But he's not a pianist. He doesn't know how to teach "that special thing that pianists have."
So I quit piano, after fighting a lot with my parents. I hated it. But I still played occasionally, and tried to learn some EASY PEASY things like "La valse d'Amelie".
Then, when I was 12 (7th grade), we had a new Music teacher at school. She was
AMAZING. She played the piano so well. She taught us to play La Valse D'Amelie with flute, therefore I started trying to play it with the piano. We also signed a very unknown song named "Shalom to you my friend". She played it with the piano. I. Loved. It. I asked her for the sheets, but never got them. I now have the sheets, I asked a youtuber who played it:
Well, in 8th grade, I felt like I needed to play the piano. I mean it, I NEEDED it. I started having... psychiatric problems due to my nice alcoholic narcissistic father (I have BPD, Bipolar 2 and PTSD, ugh).
So I asked her. I asked my idol. My Music teacher. The best pianist I ever heared. "Do you teach piano?" "Yes." So, in a few months, I was going one time per week to her appartment. I learnt... lots of things. I think we started continuing to learn La Valse D'Amelie, but I got tired of that. I don't remember what happened meanwhile, but I think that at the starting of 2011 we started playing Chopin, thus I started loving it.
I started with... heck, I don't remember it. I think a prelude. I forgot it. Then, while doing some random preludes/études and some "finger exercise" things, I started learning... Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor! Yay!
One year later, and that's THIS YEAR, I finished it. Now I know how to play it perfectly.
My main learning thing now is the Ballade nº 1. I don't know how did I go from a total newbie level to this in... two years? That's because of her. I LOVE HER. I. DO. LOVE. HER.
Seriously, I could be dead if she didn't teach me.
I'm also playing a Pachelbel's Canon transcription, the Raindrop Prelude and perhaps something else. Oh, soon I'll have piano class again, and I will start playing "In a Persian market" and something of Bach, while doing the looong and difficult -yet lovely- Ballade.
I think that's pretty good, isn't it?
Of course, like a good 15 year old, I also like some "New 'n Evil" music. Especially Lana Del Rey ♥
That was it!
Cheers,
Lifelies