jazz festival

every year there`s a jazz festival in a city called Montreux at the lake geneva. tons of great musicians are playing there during 2 weeks in july. i went to a concert of roberta flack, david sanborn and TOWER OF POWER! it was an awesome show and i loved listening to the funky sound of T.O.P. check it out at the movie below!



we stayed in montreux for 2 nights. friends of mine were there on a little boat - our home for the weekend :-) they used to get up on top of the boat and play for the people who were walking on the lake front. concerts, playing at the promenade and singin on board of the ship... music from dusk til dawn you could say!

nice!

Wedding

My good friend Angela got married last weekend. 2 friends of ours and I were planing everything for them and on of their wishes was that all the guests dress up in fifties and sixties style. so we did - just the way Audrey Hepburn showed us how to do :-)
we all wore nice dresses with big belts, hats, huge sun glasses and some even wore gloves that came all the way up to the elbow.
the wedding was a blast and everything went really well.


I just finished the 6th semester of school. in september i`ll start the master`s program which includes a major in music. i`m very looking forward to that and can`t wait to take all those interesting classes at the jazz school. yay!

so much for now. i`ll try to keep you posted more frequently than so far (well, i mean every 3 months or so IS a regular base, but.... ) talk to you soon :-)

acappella

some of you might know that some of the music students from my school and i rehearse weekly (since november) to sing acapplea songs. we`re 8 students total and most of them are in my semester, 2 started studying one year later than the rest of us. it`s a really fun group of people and we absolutely enjoy each other`s company.

at our chuch we have an art gallery every year for about 2 weeks. as soon as the lady in charge heard that we`d started an acappella group she booked us for the opening of the gallery. it was very exciting for us because we didn`t exactly know what to expect. i mean, i know the people from church, but all the others didn`t.
there were about 200-300 people there and they were thrilled by our performance!
they didn`t want to let us go :-)

here`s a pic of the ladies and gentelmen singing

off school

since christmas i`m off school. first really enjoyed the holiday but then i had to study for my exams. everything went well even the math test that i had not passed last year. i was actually really goot at that test. yeah!

we had my niece and my nephew over for 3 days. it was so much fun to be with them not just for a couple of hours. mirco (newphew) is a bit more than 3 years old now and solène just turned one in november. i love both of them very much but did you know that little kids are bright awake at about 6.30 in the morning. goodness :-)
here i had a little salsa dance session with solène. awesome!





















after exams i started an internship in a school to teach math (9th grade) and music (8th grade). they were off school last week so that gave me one week off as well. i enjoyed it very much because it actually WAS a vacation for me. i didn`t have to study or work - loved it! i went snowboarding for 3 days. here`s some pictures of the swiss alps (on the left side you can see the matterhorn :-) )



one day i went with 3 friends from school. i spent the night in the appartement that my parents rentet for the week (they were up in the mountains the whole week!) and went snowboarding again the next day. that was at the beginning of the week. on friday a friend from church and i decided to go snowboarding again on saturday. it was just beautyful weather!
we ate lunch in front of a tiny little wooden chottage and enjoyed the view


it was so good to be out in the snow and in the fresh air and away from school and work and everything else. once again i was amazed by the magnificent work the lord has done creating the world! unbelievable!