rain on bike = not pleasant

So, if you have never had to ride a bike as you ONLY means of transportation, you are in for a quick surprise the first day you have to ride to work in the RAIN.  It is COLD.  You get soaking wet, your butt is wet from the seat, your fingers and ears freeze off, and there is nothing you can do about it.  It has rained a couple of days this week and I have NOT enjoyed it.  It's hard to tell what's better- ride the bike in and get wet, or walk in and probably still get wet but at least you get to hold an umbrella.  Anyway, the end of this week has been pretty good since I met this little deutsche Jungelein (that is probably very incorrect German, but I don't care).  Enjoy!

Wednesday, May 27

 

Today the girls had Tosca rehearsal from 10-11am and then a little bit of free time.  Then we coached with Dr. Reber for a bit, had German class, and then part of our group went to Dresden to see Midsummer Night’s Dream with Mendelssohn’s incidental music.  I had little interest in seeing it, plus there was only room for 3 of us to go, so I stayed home and practiced music with Abby.  Then, Abby, Matt, and I went out to the club Tivoli with our German friends and…. I met this guy.  His name is Daniel, he is German, and SO heiss!  So now we are “friends” and we had a good time tonight and some sweet texts sent when we both made it home. J

 

Thursday, May 28

 

Today was a little rough.  Ich habe kater (I have a hangover).  We made it in around 2:30 last night, but the sun comes up at like 4:30 am here (and sets at like 10pm, seriously), so I woke up a lot this morning.  We made in to rehearsal from 10-12, then had lunch, then attempted a Bastienne coaching with Dr. Reber, although we were not in the best shape… haha.  We then had German class from 3-5 and then a full stumble-through of Tosca in the space (which is actually a decommissioned church called the Nikolai Kierche).  The singing is very good, but the concept is very strange and modern.  Whatever, there is actually not a lot of singing for the Damenchor (female chorus), so I just hung around after we were done (the Herrenchor still sings in Act 3, so I waited for them to finish).  Then we went for beers with the director, GMD (General Music Director Herr Maestro Horstmann), the Scarpia, Cadaverossi, and Tosca, and Matt, Alex, Sam, Sam’s boyfriend Michy, and me.  They think we are funny when we attempt German, but they are nice about it.  I also got a couple of sweet texts from Daniel, and I am going to see him again Monday since he is going home for this weekend.  Tee hee. J  We got home around 12:30 and hit the hay pretty quick!