Too bad you guys didn't show up. It was a great week, lots of nice teachers and players and a nice atmosphere. Made me realize I have to study in Germany or Austria someday. Hopefully already next season. We'll see. Found a new bow, a stunning piece of snakewood sculpted by F. Günter Hoyer. Five minutes after agreeing on the deal Stephan Petzold, teacher at the Hanns Eisler school in Berlin, offered me €3600 and ten lessons - a good thousand more than my price, the normal price of about €100 per hour for a lesson with a university professor not included - so it was probably a good buy. Now I only have to learn to play it...
All was fine until the trip home, when my Visa card didn't work in the ATMs, which kept telling me that I was out of money. I decided to take the risk of getting on a train, asked some German if this particular one that looked exactly as the one I had taken from the airport, and had the same desination, really went to the airport, which in the end it didn't, and I missed the flight. Some €650 in new tickets later - of course I didn't have a travel insurance, I'm a poor student! - (at which point it was at least made clear that I still had about as much money as I had hoped to and that those German money machines are to be trusted to about the same extent as the people's waypointing) I found myself having to stay for the night at the Oslo airport, which is only so much fun. My life was made a lot easier by a very kind hostess, who gave me all the food I could eat, and a very nice fellow bass player with a great moustache who happened to be in the seat next to me, who made sure I got both his and his wife's sandwiches. There is hope for humanity.
And, it was really a very nice course.
03-31-2009, 09:53 AM
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