Happy Nutella Day!

In case you didn't know, today (February 5) was National Nutella Day. I don't know if that is country specific, but it sounds like an American thing to me. But frankly, I don't care. There is a man who has a booth on the opposite side of the church who makes crepes the right way, and one of the kinds of crepes he sells is Nutella. So after dinner, Kristen, Phillip, and I went to the Crepe-man to celebrate national crepe day. It was delicious.

Tonight was also the first night of choir practice. We were told we were simply going to be meeting with the choir director, and so we weren't too concerned because we figured we be there for about an hour and then we'd be on our way. No. Of course it wasn't that simple. First we couldn't find the building we were supposed to go to. Then when we did find the building, we didn't know what room to go to, so we were in the building for almost 10 minutes before we figured that out. But of course, it's not that simple either. Tonight was choir practice. So the whole choir was watching as he met with us and quickly figured out which parts we would sing. Pretty much everyone stared at us for several minutes when we walked in the room and got situated. That was awkward. Of course everything was in German. But it was ok. We are singing a Bach motet for 2 choirs, so the whole choir is divided in two parts. I was having a tough time at first because it has been about eight weeks since I sang in Oratorio, so I was bit out of practice. I finally did catch on again and was actually doing pretty well. I was pretty proud of myself. I'm excited now for the next rehearsal!

Up next: my first cello lesson tomorrow morning!

Grace and Peace!
Suz :)

First Snow!

This morning after I got back from conducting class, which started at 8:30 AM (not fun), I made myself some tea and then settled down to do a chapter of reading for history class, which I had forgotten about. Before long, it started raining, and then there was thunder. A lot of thunder. Then the sound of the rain on the window changed to a harder sound, so I thought maybe it was hailing. I went upstairs to the balcony to go outside, and from there decided it must be wet snow. I don't have much experience with snow, so I wasn't sure. In just a few minutes time, it turned more into snow and started piling up on the window, so I decided it was time to take a "break" from homework and go outside in the snow. It was beautiful. And silent.

View of Marktplatz from our front door.

View up our street from Marktplatz

Marktplatz

View from the upstairs balcony.

I'm glad I went upstairs when I did. Before long, it stopped snowing, and the snow started to melt. It's not cold enough for it to be very permanent. An hour later when I was heading to class, the snow in the streets had mostly melted, and was running down the drains. Now it is pretty much all gone. Whatever is left tonight will probably freeze.

Before German class, I snapped this final photo of what was left of the snow. It's a bit blurry, but I was a hurried.

Grace and Peace,

Suzannah

Meet My Roommate

My roommate left a gem on my camera, which means it's fair game for blogging :) Meet Kristen Sang everybody!

She is also from APU, and is almost finished (hooray!). Although we are both music majors, we didn't know each other before coming here. We have quite a few mutual friends, but our paths just never crossed at school. Now that we are here, living together is quite easy, and we have noticed over the past few days that we have several common quirks that, when we notice, make us laugh. It's going to be a marvelous semester with Kristen (aka K-Sang).

Grace and Peace,
Suz