Inner Peace

Okay Sally, since you decided not to pick up your phone and didn't let me talk to you, I will have to write this blog post for your birthday!

Happy Birthday Japaner!

I enjoyed our time together at Apollo sooo much. It is just so funny to be around you. You are one of the best friends I've ever had and I want to thank you for being such a great person :)

I will never forget the time that we spent together:

• all the Pep-Band events
• going out to eat with Tony
• concerts
• band rehearsals
• A-lunch during Trimester 2
• the car ride to the school and home
• Graduation
• the Graduation Party
• the different dances
• Kung Fu Panda 2
• and all the time that we will hopefully spend together before I leave :)

I'm so glad I got to teach you some German and I just love listening to your German talking! I'm proud of you for learning sooooo quickly it was just crazy how fast you picked everything up and started talking to me in German so that I couldn't answer because I already forgot my German :D
I hope you'll have fun with my German dictionary!

Deutsche and Japanerin :)

Stay as awesome as you are my little Panda!
I know I will miss you a lot so don't you EVER forget me - you promised to come visit me in 3 years!

Ich liebe dich :)

Inner Peace

P.S.: I promise you, you are good enough to sit in THAT classroom, you won't have to watch everybody through the windows and wait to go to the dummy classes with the scary special teacher ;)

P.P.S.: I love the way you pronounce the German 'ch'!

Do Re Mi

I looove this song from Sound of Music. And yes I've never watched the movie I really have to change that!

Anyway it's in my head all the time so I thought I could use it for my blog since I try to always use songs that I'm currently listening too.

There was a great flashmob with that song in belgium:

We also have a new student teacher in Choir and I love the warm-ups we are doing right now.
One for example here...
We have a list with:

• Do
• Re
• Mi
• Fa
• So
• La
• Ti
• Do

and..

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8

We have to go up and down the list singing the "words" or numbers like this:

Do, Do Re Do, Do Re Mi Re Do, Do Re Mi Fa Mi Re Do, Do Re Mi Fa So Fa Mi Re Do, Do Re Mi Fa So La So Fa Mi Re Do, Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti La So Fa Mi Re Do, Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do Ti La So Fa Mi Re Do.

... or

1, 1 2 1, 1 2 3 2 1, ... and so on.

Anyway it's super much fun and I just wanted to share that with you :)

Do Re Mi

Music

As mentioned in An die Musik I had my Choir Solo/Ensemble Contest on Wednesday where I sang 'An die Musik' (To Music) by Franz Schubert. I also sang Shenandoah with seven other girls (so we had two soprano, three first alto and two second alto).

When I woke up that morning my throat was super sore and I thought "Great, why today?". It was a little hard to catch the high notes but all in all it was a lot of fun spending the day just listening to other artist instead of sitting in school for math, language arts, etc. :)
And I also met some friends from Calvary who go to Tech!

My ratings for both performances were 'Superior'. I was so happy! Since I was a little sick I thought I won't do very good, but I just did as good as I can... wasn't like I could do anything about it ;)

Oh and I looove this song! My dad listens to it a lot and when I got to hear it the first time my English wasn't that great so I didn't catch all of it, but "Music is my first love" is not that hard and the music itself of the song is amazing :)

Music