Day 3 - Working on Dynamics

Hello again!
Today I worked mostly on dynamics, concentrating on the change between forte and piano. This change is extremely noticeable in the piano track, which actually helps me a lot because I know relatively how much to drop or raise my volume, as well as if I'm at the right tempo.
I also worked some more on piecing the sonatina together with the piano. It definitely is faster than how I play it, so my goal for this weekend is to start recording by tomorrow, not as the final copy but just to see how they go along together and also to slow down the tempo at first so I get a better feel for the piece. It's sometimes hard to know exactly how to play a piece - sometimes you get into a habit of playing a certain part a certain way, just because you played it that way once. That's what happened to me with bars 15-17 - originally I didn't notice there was no eighth rest between the G natural staccato eighth note in bar 15 and the F natural staccato eighth note in the 16 bar. That is definitely a very bad habit to get into, so I must work on ridding myself of that tendency. At least now I've got those bars down.
Now that I can play the right rhythms (I think I have bars 11 and 12 down now - yay!) basically all I have to work on now is tempo and dynamics, which are just as important as the rhythms and notes, really. They're what gives the piece emotion and depth, instead of just robotically reading notes and rhythms off a page. So wish me luck!
I'm nervous to try out the piece on Audacity - whenever I play alone, I tend to get excessively nervous and mess up more than usual. Oh well, we shall see.