Study Information Day in Mannheim
Thursday was an important day. I went to the Musikhochschule (conservatory of music) in Mannheim to inform myself of their expectations etc. I was able to attend several lectures and theory courses which were pretty interesting. From about 2 to 3:30 I went to a violin lesson. It was a little strange to me, because the professor did weird movements etc. He was from Poland and had an accent, too but he was a great violinist. The music which the student played was the concerto by Brahms. Really hard music!!
Here comes the funny part of this day. I met Lilly, who is a student there, after she finished her voice lesson and we walked to the train station together. Since I was hungry I bought myself a Kebap. There were still about 10 minutes left so we figured that we might as well walk around a little bit. After a while I got a little bit nervous because I definitely had to get this train because of the dress rehearsal at 7. Fact is that I missed it... because I didn't remember the time correctly. I saw the train leave... oh well. I looked for a new connection to Heidelberg and found one which was not too bad, but I knew that I would miss my train from there only by five minutes. Since the train I took had a little delay anyway I didn'T feel too bad. I was still eating my Kebap and I am just not a gifted eater with such stuff. I spilled some sauce on my pants just before entering the train, had to take seat and all the other seats around me were also taken after a while. The only dumb thing was that my hands were extremely dirty and I didn't know how to clean them without making a mess. Finally I finished eating and I found the napkin (which was half dirty already) and wiped my hands. They got halfway clean. Then I got myself a tissue out from my jacket pocket and with the help of the tissue my hands finally got clean. Now I could put my violin on the shelf on top (until then I kept it between my knees). I was kind of embarrassed, because people were watching me being a fool...
In Heidelberg I looked for the next connection to Stuttgart and it would have been easy if it were Friday or Sunday, but since it was Thursday the fast trains only drove every two hours and apparently I missed my only chance. So I had to take a slower train which therefore got to Stuttgart way later. In Stuttgart I had to wait another 20 minutes for the S-Bahn to Böblingen. All in all I was 90 minutes late for the dress rehearsal even though I ran all the way from the train station to church. The only dumb thing was that the other girl playing first violin did not come either because she had to go to sleep in time (she is only 11) therefore there was no first violin for most of the time :(
On Friday there was nothing spectacular going on. Oh yes there was. I took a test in history but since I missed the final preparation I misinterpretated the caricature... so I will see what I will get for the test. I mean I still got the general idea, I just misinterpreted one of the main figures and there were only two. Oh well.
Our English lesson was kind of weird I can say. We now started a drama. This means we act during lessons. It feels a little strange to me. We should dance (which half of the class didn't because of embarrassment or shyness or whatever). It was my turn to do the minutes so I still don't know what exactly I am going to write in them, I just hope I will do a good job. Those lessons are at least fun!!
I was so tired at the end of the day that I just went to sleep at 5 after straightening up my room. THe day before I had to wake up at 5 to get the train station in time and I got home really late, because we rehearsed until 9:45. I slept horribly though and I think it was caused by the weather because my parents didn't sleep well and my little sister didn't either.
Today we went to church as usual except that we had our christmas celebration today. I know it is not 24th yet :) It was a success even though the chorus missed several entrances. People said that they really enjoyed it. So I guess we met our goal. Guess what happened. The church gave every person in the orchestra money. I got 20 € which means that I am now out of debt. Next week I will receive 50€ for my piano lessons and this will be my first money for my trip to America. I also took a nap for about three hours. We played a game and my dad won because he was just lucky. Tabea lost but she was cool about it. All in all this game was really enjoyable, because we played it in a social manner not seeing when someone had to pay if he had little money etc. at the end when we knew that my mom would return soon we played it the hard way, but my dad just had the best hotels and therefore earned the most. What I liked about this game was that we played as a unit and not one against the other.
After the game, when my mom came home we watched a movie called cheaper by the dozen. I once read a book with that title, but the movie was different. It was still really funny and enjoyable though. We laughed so much and even my dad liked it.
Tomorrow I will have a piano lesson, because I couldn't go on Thursday and I have to study for my test on Monday.
Here comes the funny part of this day. I met Lilly, who is a student there, after she finished her voice lesson and we walked to the train station together. Since I was hungry I bought myself a Kebap. There were still about 10 minutes left so we figured that we might as well walk around a little bit. After a while I got a little bit nervous because I definitely had to get this train because of the dress rehearsal at 7. Fact is that I missed it... because I didn't remember the time correctly. I saw the train leave... oh well. I looked for a new connection to Heidelberg and found one which was not too bad, but I knew that I would miss my train from there only by five minutes. Since the train I took had a little delay anyway I didn'T feel too bad. I was still eating my Kebap and I am just not a gifted eater with such stuff. I spilled some sauce on my pants just before entering the train, had to take seat and all the other seats around me were also taken after a while. The only dumb thing was that my hands were extremely dirty and I didn't know how to clean them without making a mess. Finally I finished eating and I found the napkin (which was half dirty already) and wiped my hands. They got halfway clean. Then I got myself a tissue out from my jacket pocket and with the help of the tissue my hands finally got clean. Now I could put my violin on the shelf on top (until then I kept it between my knees). I was kind of embarrassed, because people were watching me being a fool...
In Heidelberg I looked for the next connection to Stuttgart and it would have been easy if it were Friday or Sunday, but since it was Thursday the fast trains only drove every two hours and apparently I missed my only chance. So I had to take a slower train which therefore got to Stuttgart way later. In Stuttgart I had to wait another 20 minutes for the S-Bahn to Böblingen. All in all I was 90 minutes late for the dress rehearsal even though I ran all the way from the train station to church. The only dumb thing was that the other girl playing first violin did not come either because she had to go to sleep in time (she is only 11) therefore there was no first violin for most of the time :(
On Friday there was nothing spectacular going on. Oh yes there was. I took a test in history but since I missed the final preparation I misinterpretated the caricature... so I will see what I will get for the test. I mean I still got the general idea, I just misinterpreted one of the main figures and there were only two. Oh well.
Our English lesson was kind of weird I can say. We now started a drama. This means we act during lessons. It feels a little strange to me. We should dance (which half of the class didn't because of embarrassment or shyness or whatever). It was my turn to do the minutes so I still don't know what exactly I am going to write in them, I just hope I will do a good job. Those lessons are at least fun!!
I was so tired at the end of the day that I just went to sleep at 5 after straightening up my room. THe day before I had to wake up at 5 to get the train station in time and I got home really late, because we rehearsed until 9:45. I slept horribly though and I think it was caused by the weather because my parents didn't sleep well and my little sister didn't either.
Today we went to church as usual except that we had our christmas celebration today. I know it is not 24th yet :) It was a success even though the chorus missed several entrances. People said that they really enjoyed it. So I guess we met our goal. Guess what happened. The church gave every person in the orchestra money. I got 20 € which means that I am now out of debt. Next week I will receive 50€ for my piano lessons and this will be my first money for my trip to America. I also took a nap for about three hours. We played a game and my dad won because he was just lucky. Tabea lost but she was cool about it. All in all this game was really enjoyable, because we played it in a social manner not seeing when someone had to pay if he had little money etc. at the end when we knew that my mom would return soon we played it the hard way, but my dad just had the best hotels and therefore earned the most. What I liked about this game was that we played as a unit and not one against the other.
After the game, when my mom came home we watched a movie called cheaper by the dozen. I once read a book with that title, but the movie was different. It was still really funny and enjoyable though. We laughed so much and even my dad liked it.
Tomorrow I will have a piano lesson, because I couldn't go on Thursday and I have to study for my test on Monday.
posted by Kerstin @ 10:59 PM
1 Comments:
At 11/12/05 07:32,
Anonym said…
Wow... you did so much over the last several days. I think that is really cool. It also sounds like you had a really good time. I'm especially glad that some of the fun you had was with your family.
Good luck on your test on Monday. I hope you do well.
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