Fri, Apr 15, 2011 – 06:55
I got back from Italy Monday night (the 28th) and then it was time to start packing things up and getting my last memories in before it was time to go. I went to the Cologne Opera on Thursday night with Patrick to see “The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” in German, [...]
Wed, Sep 15, 2010 – 20:28
Friday I showed up in Germany to visit with my square dance partner and go to a dance weekend at the “western city” in the Harz mountains. He had some things to take care of in the afternoon, so I spent a while visiting with a cat who comes and begs for food at his [...]
Tuesday night, my parents and I danced in Bloomington, about an hour away from where my parents live, since the club at home folded. The caller was reasonable (speaking English helps, I have to say), and there were enough people that there were two squares every time. Unfortunately, they all seemed to be married couples, [...]
Fri, Jul 17, 2009 – 19:07
I had my last dance with the Dessauer Sunheads last night. We danced at the park and had a little cookout, and one of the students from Sergej’s English class who was there was kind enough to take photos for me all evening. I’m really glad she did, because they’re great reminders of my last [...]
Mon, Jun 29, 2009 – 14:01
There were more than a thousand people in Suhl (near Erfurt) for the 50th anniversary celebration of the European Callers & Teachers Association over the weekend. The weekend was pretty much fifty hours of awesome (though I think it would have been nice if a few more of those hours had actually been spent sleeping [...]
Sat, Jun 20, 2009 – 10:46
Since there was no square dance meeting on Thursday night and I went to see Viel Lärm um Nichts, I went down to Leipzig on Friday to get a tour of the city and then go to my square dance partner’s club. He told me to come whenever, without pointing out that the zoo would [...]
Pictures from the square dance demo/spring festival thing at Rolling Art on Friday.
Thursday morning, my dad was featured on the local public radio station to discuss solar cells. We keep saying he’s famous! It was very exciting for all of us. Monday was Kindertag, so Janine’s mom was very kind and gave me a box of Saxen-Anhalt chocolates along with two copies of a handwritten letter about [...]
Sun, May 10, 2009 – 14:04
I went to a square dance meetup thing in our neighbor state to the south, Thüringen, on Saturday evening. I’m not clear what area it covered (probably middle Germany or something), but there seemed to be about six or seven clubs there. It was fun, at least once it got later in the evening and [...]
Square dancing did not involve much in the way of squares this week. We tried contra, country line, some sort of country round dance, old time square dance, and then the caller did a unique rendition of “New York, New York” in my honor. Evidently the caller talked to a journalist in his neighborhood and [...]
