Slumdog Millionaire
What was the last movie you have seen?
On sunday I took the time to go to the cinema and watch one of the most famous and most spectacular movies of today’s cinema life: Slumdog Millionaire.
“The story of how impoverished Indian teen Jamal Malik became a contestant on the Hindi version of “Who Wants to be A Millionaire?” — an endeavor made without prize money in mind, rather, an effort to prove his love for his friend Latika, who is an ardent fan of the show.” (cinema.com)
I have to admit that I had doubts whether this would be a weak Bollywood film because I had heard different kinds of reputations, the ones liked it a lot, the others thought “Just another love story, don’t be bothered watching it”.
What would you have done after seeing the trailer? Run to the cinema or stay at home and watch your favourite TV show?
Well, thank you very much, it was not another Bollywood movie (except the last couple of minutes), and even if it shows pretty obviously living conditions of the poor in India, I am not convinced to award it 8 oscars and I do not need to see it necessarily again in the next couple of months.
How to spend a long weekend
As you all know, last Friday was a holiday meaning 3 days off in a row! But what can you do with all your time? I thought about different possibilities and is a election of my results:
- You stay in bed all day. You only leave it in to grab some food. You watch movies, soap operas etc “d’arrache- pied”(the only word I can remember from last French lesson meaning without a break)
- Party, party, Party, Dancing, Clubbing….1.might partly be included.
- You are a good guy and spend the time with your family. Your grandparents, sibling, parents, aunts, uncles … will be more than happy about your visit.
- You use the time preparing presentations, writing blogs, learning, working through articles and books- all that stuff you never have actually time for.
- See your friends; cinema, just hanging out
- Let’ s get crackin’ and do a mountain tour- that’s what I did!
So what has actually happened:
On Thursday after Uni, I took a ride to Munich by a so called “Mitfahrgelegenheit”(the driver was the president of ProReli, interesting isn’t it?). Next morning, it took us about an hour to get to the Alpes, to be precise to the Bavarian foothills of the Alpes. So we packed all our stuff we needed for the trip and walked to our accommondation called “Albert Link Hütte” where we checked in for 2 nights and immediately went on our first tour. The next two days we did tours about 7 to 8 hours and climbed on several peaks like Brecherspitz, Taubenstein, Rotwand, Schwarzenkopf.
On Sunday night I got home at 2 a.m., but it was absolutely worth it.
Spitzingsee
Taubenstein
Russian Evening
Since last semester I have attended a Russian language course as “Studium Generale”. After having a lot of fun during classes and a quite satisfying examination at the end of last semester I decided to stick to my third foreign language (especially as a little east German girl who was born in the German Democratic Republic, my parents speak Russian almost fluently). And once in a while our lecturer Larissa Paris organizes a “get together” among all the different courses.
So last Friday, one of theses special occasions happened again. At 8 p.m. we met in the Russian restaurant “Bravo” near Bundesplatz in Wilmersdorf. After having a quite nice dinner with fish, meat and Bortsch(typical Russian soup), we had one or even two Wodka and started singing songs like “Nikoloscha” or the Russian birthday song composed by the little monster “Tschiburaschka”. I enjoyed very much that night and I am really looking forward to the next one. I would love you to join me on these little parties, even if you do not have had any contact with Russia or Russian language before; Wodka might help- trust me on that^^
Gala concert on the occasion of the “Versicherungs- und Fondsmesse Leipzig”
As most of you might know, I have been playing the violin for more than 16 years now and even if I decided not to become a professional musician, nevertheless I have a concert or a another kind of gig with several orchestras and bands once in while.
On Wednesday I was asked to play with the “Orchester Dirk Jecht”
[if you wanna have a look, shows you a tiny part of one of their events or under their homepage at http://dirk-jecht.de/]
the gala concert on the occasion of the “Versicherungs- und Fondmesse Leipzig 2009″. Some of my dear fellow students might have seen me coming to uni with my violin on hand. So what has actually happened: I came to class to partly join Mister Tomfords lecture and left early to be on the exhibition center Leipzig in time.
After a very short soundcheck, I just had the time to order my notes, get dressed and to come on stage to play. Starting with smooth dinnermusic, followed by dancemusic, the audience (obviously rich people working for insurance companies who were invited to this gala) left their tables and enjoyed dancing all night long. Outside, there was an astonishing fire/light/pyrotechnics show between several dance sessions, so we actually had a chance to get a short break and relax a bit. We played until 2 a.m. (from 8 p.m.!!!), and after packing all our stuff most of the musicians went to the hotel and tried to get some sleep. I was in bed at 3.30 a.m….
But this is not the end of the story yet. So the next morning got up at 7, convinced myself to have a tiny breakfast and went on my way back to Berlin, because I could not stand the fact missing our macroeconomics class^^on top of that, immediately after uni I had to go to work again- “Kaisers” was waiting for me..:-)To make it even worse I had to work 2,5 hours longer than I was supposed to because one of my colleagues decided not to come to work. So after all I was home at 10.30 p.m….Honestly I had the intention to write you exactly this blog on this particular evening, but I hope you will understand, I just could not be bothered to swith on my laptop any more and tell you all about these amazing, but exhausting days.
My favourite blog before I created my own one=)
Have a look at this….
This is one of my favourite photos from travelling in New Zealand. You want some more? No worries, just stick to my blog and let me surprise you^^
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