I'm really sorry but I really didn't have chance to get on Internet and update my blog earlier and as well, I hope I will have chance to upload my photos as at the moment web page where I usually upload my photos is out of order at the moment.
October 2 – Our first CI day in Erfurt
Today I had my first CI day. After morning meeting we were split in groups and we went to have our CI. I was working in photography workshop with high school students and it was really cool CI. We were working with few students and we all went around the city to take photos of Erfurt as our main topic of photos was city Erfurt.
I met some really cool people today and from what I’ve seen, Erfurt is really nice city and I love it. It has the most quite trams I ever heard. They just sneak behind you and suddenly you realize that you might get hit by tram just for few centimeters. That’s scary.
We also visited cathedral and it’s really nice. I love it.
October 1 – Traveling to Erfurt
My host mum drop me off at 8 and our trip to Erfurt could start. We were around Erfurt area around 1AM and than we got police escort to Erfurt city center. It was so cool. This is the first time I have been escorted by police to some place.
Our meeting point was city hall where we had meeting with major and host family meeting. When we come there, first we had cast meeting and as our cast manager Martin is back from Las Vegas business trip, we had a lot of news to share with him and as well he had some great news to share with us, but more about that when the time for that comes around.
After cast meeting, major made a little speech and than we met our host families and after that we had little buffet.
I’m rooming with Cindy, staff member, this time and our host family is really nice. We live in nice house and I have 2 host sisters and host brother.
September 30 - Host family day
It's my host sister’s birthday and my host family prepared special day for her.
I woke up around 10.30 and soon after having breakfast and a little break, we went to bowling place to play some bowling. I have never bowled in my life so it was really nice to do that. Of course, first few time's I didn't hit anything but than I started to improve, but I never hit the „strike“how it is called when all bowls fall down.
After bowling we went to city to have lunch in one restaurant and I had some Asian food, really nice and tasty. After lunch we took short walk to city and I saw some Up with People people around.
When we finally come home, my host mum and I went outside to play badminton which was a lot of fun and after that we went to ride bike around the city area so that she can show me how their aria looks like and it's all new houses and it looks really nice. I love it.
September 29 - Show day
I still cannot believe what happened on our show day in Uelzen. I’m still under impression and very happy. Let me start from the beginning.
So, in the morning we had Tech workshop which mean that our Tech crew wanted to show us what is happening behind the scene while we are on the stage and how things work behind the scene. First, Gaby was explaining how the lightening board works and how he has to handle lights during the show. After that Andrew teach us how the sound board works and what you have to do that sound will be perfect. Michael, our truck driver, showed us what does to be in focus crew. Kristine explained what does it to be in band and how things work with band which. Jeremy was showing us how video and screen works and what he has to do during show for that. And last, Chris and Mitch showed us what means to have trust in your friends and people with who you work with. We did the trust fall from 2 different highs. First high was not so high so it was easy just to fall on your back and trust that your team is going to catch you. But 2nd fall was a little bit challenge as we had to fall from 1.5m. First I didn’t want to go as it seemed too high, but at least, I decided to take risk and I went. Standing up there and starting to fall seemed that fall is taking so much time. But it was totally worth. Feeling was great.
After tech workshops we had rehearsal and it was a little bit boring as rehearsal time passes so slowly sometimes. When it was over, we had dinner and I was rushing to take dinner and Sherlock stop me to tell me that some boys are searching for me and that I should go to see them. I decided to do that after dinner as I didn’t have a clue who is searching for me, but Sherlock didn’t want to resist and I had to go to find those boys. I went to another hall and when I saw who is standing there I screamed and I started to run to hug my dear friends and my host brother from Sodertalje. My host brother and Rodolfo and 2 girls come all the way from Sodertalje to Uelzen to visit me and to see Up with People show again. How cool is that?? It was really nice surprise and that really brighten my day. I was so excited and when I realized that my host brother and friends are going to watch me in the show (I wasn’t performing in Sodertalje as I was advanced team and I was watching the show), I started to feel a little bit nervous.
We ate dinner together and talked how it was for the past 2 weeks. At that time I still couldn’t believe that they are really sitting next to me. After dinner, I prepared myself and I brought them to Green room and after that show could start.
I had so much energy in the show that I was really happy. Show was really great and German song really brought excitement in audience.
After the show, I went to say hallo to my host family from Uelzen and I saw that they really enjoyed the show which was great. Also, I said goodbye to my Sodertalje friends and it was hard for me to say goodbye for the 2nd time but I was really happy that they showed as surprise here in Uelzen. Thank you guys… you really made my day! :)
After the show, I was part of strike crew and it was really exciting to be in the strike. I just love strike more than set up. Cannot help it. ;)
September 28 - Day in Hamburg
Today is our regional learning day and we were split in few groups and me and my group went to Hamburg. Train station in Uelzen is really nice. Its Hundertwasser artist architecture. Train we took to Hamburg is double floor train and it’s really cool. We took the train around 10AM and reached Hamburg at 11AM. I was in group with Guido, Jakkoo, Manuel and Sherlock.
We went all around the Hamburg. We also visited city hall which was really cool as city hall is really nice. Than we went to St. Nikolai’s church which is actually ruined church and only tower is left not so ruined and they made panorama view elevator on 75.8m high. There is really nice panorama view of whole Hamburg and it was worth 3EUR how much we had to pay for that.
After that we went to have lunch in Shopping center and I had really nice pasta with mushroom sauce. After that we went all the way down to river and it was really cool as river was really low and all surrounding buildings are red. It’s really nice place.
We had to take train to Uelzen at 2.58PM.
When we reached Uelzen, it was time for set up the stage in Theater where we are going to perform in Saturday. Set up was fun (or maybe I felt that way as I haven’t done strike for a while).
After strike, my host mum took me home to have dinner and after dinner she took me to center to meet Nicole, my host sister and go out with her. She took me to bar named Komma where I also meet some Up with People people and it was really cool. In the way I felt like being at home in some Croatian bar as the music is loud and it’s hard to hear German language. We stayed out till midnight as I had to go home to get some sleep for tomorrows show.
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