wanderingstan

Blogging and Bluegrass

So here we go...
Starting small.

Had a new experience today. After Frisbee practice some of us headed over to the Schlossgarten (the lawn behind the castle) to play some more. We had two of these frisbee's with embedden LED's that light them up like flying saucers, and everyone was wearing flashing red blinkers. And Micheal, the local crazy frisbee man, had his ghetto blaster going loud with some funk. What a surreal scene... shadows with blinking red dots flitting around in the dark, and these shots of red and blue drawing lines on the sky.

Oh, and yesterday was the big international music night. Most of the other folks were doing Kareoke to Chinese songs, or playing Bach on a violin. I think I scared everyone with my rendition of Fred Eaglesmith's "Wilder than Her," sung in the thickest southern accent that could muster and at the top of my lungs. Mario was also there and did a great Alice in Chains song. Afterward we went back to his place and had a little dinner with Egon and Judith and then did a little jamming. It felt good to make music again.

Good news! I [finally] did a big audit of the classes I've taken and what I'm taking and what I need to graduate, and I am on track to finish all my coursework this semester. Yipee! So then it's just a thesis and then .. and then .. and then .. uhm, yes, that's the question. Das ist die große Frage!