Samstag, 15. Dezember 2007

I'm coming back!!

I'm on my way back...!!

Sat. 9:30am: Bloomington - Indianapolis - by car (friends give me a ride :)
12:40am: flight Indianapolis - Atlanta
18:30pm: flight Atlanta - VIENNA

Sunday, ca. 9:55am - wieder in Wien Wien, nur du allein :)

Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2007

Grocery shopping bei Kroger

Aus meinem USA - Videoarchiv:

(unglaublich, dass ich schon so lang da bin, dass ich schon von Archiv spreche)

Valeska and I grocery shopping at Kroger, the store 5 min. from my appartment in Bloomington. On Oct. 7th after the bike tour to Lake Lemon.. :)

Montag, 10. Dezember 2007

A boa neiche Bühdln

some new and almost new pics again...



Fang-yu, Viki, Abby, Ms. Wise, Naomi and Jungee in front of the concert hall after the studio-recital. (not a new picture, but I just got it from Naomi so I wanted to post it anyway)


Blury American Christmas wonderland... (a random garden where I just HAD to stop and take a picture while I was riding my bike, because this was just...too much!!)



The lunch buffet we had today in "Tudor room" (the room next to the "coronation room" - no kidding) in the Indiana Memorial Union (large old Hogwarts castle-like multi-purpose building and hotel in the middle of the campus).
Here: pear&pecan - grilled chicken


The appetizers. Yum!


hm, that was very yummy!



Last and least: The dessert - section. Right in the front the Boston cream pie. I enjoy European cakes more though :)

Samstag, 8. Dezember 2007

Neulich beim Arbeiten...


Poster backstage in a recital of the "New music ensemble" :)

Sonntag, 2. Dezember 2007

2 more performances of the studio recital

Abby and Naomi

More and more of my colleagues have asked me to upload their performances on Youtube. Her are 2 more of them for you to watch, both of them are remarkable in a way...

That's Abby, who I'm hanging out with mostly and who I got to know best from the studio till now. It's her 6th year now with Ms. Wise and she is 3 months younger than me!!
I the recital she sings an aria from a very new opera, "Little Women" by Mark Adamo, composed 2 years ago:



That's Naomi, our "star of the studio". She's a graduate student and it's her 4th year with Ms. Wise. She was singing Micaela aria from Carmen:

Mittwoch, 28. November 2007

Very American Sullivan

I've started to upload the other performances of our studio recital on youtube...

and there's one I definitely want to share with you... :)
It's my classmate Lydia performing "Poor wandrin' One" from a Gilbert&Sullivan operetta. It is soooo American, it just makes my smile every time I watch it again:




..blonde, cute, naive, pretty - all you need for becoming a singer :D ?

Samstag, 24. November 2007

Vancouver!

Thanksgiving - holidays #2:
Vancouver, BC (Canada)

Wonderful weather (cold, but sunny, what seems to be very rare here in November) and fortunately more time than in Seattle...
That's downtown: Old and new together, and in front on what looks like a stone, a counter of the days until the Olympics in 2010. (812 days from yesterday as you can see)



Valeska, Hannah and me on a pier. Behind us you can see North-Vamcouver where you can go by ferry. (or car, if you drive around the bay)
Hannah is one of Valeska's oldest friends from Munich and she studies Psychology here in Canada. We're staying with her and her Indian boyfriend in their dorm on campus.



We found out, that it's food, what Vancouver is most famous for. They say, that the Sushi is better than in Japan, because everything is so fresh directly from the sea and so many Japanese people immigrated over the years because Vancouver is the first place in Canada where you arrive when you come across the Pacific. But yesterday I tried something else..I couldn'e believe my eyes, I found a Pierogy-place!!



It was run by Asian people too (as everything here) but the food should be Russian. Reminded my more on Krakow though:



That's the food...3 types of Pierogy at the back left and cabbage rolls on the right. You could also add sausages and sauerkraut or order Borscht.
Then we went to a market with many small creative shops, like this one just for beads...


Valeska and me in front of another eatery...



Another view from the pier. The seagulls were aggressive even tough this one looks so innocent...



Now I am really tired... it's cold here (about 0°C) and I also quite literally got a cold. (the 1st since I left Europe) Hope I can sing next week again...