i just remembered that I was teaching a panther (who later turned into a monkey) how to play a major scale in any key on the piano. Whole step, whole step, half step...
we started in the Key of C, and the tried the key of D. The monkey was slowly getting it, but I woke up before a completed scale was understood. I lived in Russia. I worked at starbucks. I kept forgetting to go to work, but it was ok because I didnt know the language well enough to really be helpful.