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music intensively

only way for all cases we had Caras violin, on which they had been in Germany for four years taught in the music of Mr. Rott Enger-Spennymoor with great patience, even with our packed with relocation to Novosibirsk. Rather, we naturally had loose in the hand luggage, us - clueless as we were - after landing the completion of multilateral declarations in Russian (who knows what "violin bow" means in Russian?) Under the strict supervision unhelpful official brought. The properly now imported instrument stored for several months peacefully in our new house which prevented many new impressions in the city and school, first playing music. In the course of the approaching Christmas season 2008, however, we collect all - as every year - the desire to give this special time also to musical expression. Unfortunately, only the violin was lying down transport and long tune considerably.

mediator, we were convinced, however, that at the secondary school No. 1 for all interests an offer there, and then Klaus went looking for a music teacher who "just" could set up the strings again. The search for such was really no Problem: Liliya Maksutowna, director of the school ensembles and violin teacher at a neighboring music school, was immediately ready to help out. But: Not only should we put the violin, but please also equal to the child!

were quick tune the strings - and Cara unexpectedly logged to the course. Despite our firm intentions, Cara, first of any "free time stress" keep away, to enable it for the first time in a quiet settling into the new language and environment, we could the friendly obligation Liliya Maksutownas not resisted, and consented that Cara (at first) once a week should have in her classroom. Before long, Cara was "tentatively" invited into the ensemble and of course it made the music with 10-12 other young people enjoy.
Then, when the first concert came up and Cara solemnly with a long evening dress stood on the stage, all resistance was futile: At the weekly individual lesson came two hours of rehearsals with the ensemble, sometimes another single hour during the following school year, "Solfeggio" a kind of music theory with musical notes and rhythm theory, finally, the third weekly private lesson and a "mandatory" second instrument piano. Only the subjects "Music Literature" and "Musikanhören" which are provided with one additional hour per week in the regular curriculum, can Cara (yet) from. As Cara was taken thanks to the intercession of Liliya Maksutowna in a State of Music, will cost us all the fun just 500 rubles a month, currently about 12 €. use
From Caras progress and the unexpected possibilities here animated spot now Julius and I have the opportunity to inform us about Caras piano teacher Jelena Genedjewna. While Julius makes the first ever encounter with notes and keys and still get used to the necessity of regular practice must I struggle with at some point learned, but then thoroughly forgotten bass clef. Several weeks ago I took alone to me by the German re used to the Russian note names. But using Julius' song "Do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si-na sela Koschka taksi" I too have finally understood. Serious strikes me as even the correct posture of fingers (to be able to play on the "cushion", the fingertips, must of course all protruding nails to be sacrificed), wrist and arms. Despite the constant assertion of our teacher, it would be nothing unnatural about it, demands that my whole focus. Nice here is that Jelena Genadjewna considers us as a family project and often selects notes, in which I play Cara monitoring and the upper parts or in which one of Julius easy batch place.

So we have probably already set up soon a plan for the use of electric piano, there has been a Christmas present for us all. provide, together with daily practice sessions Caras on the violin, which requires, in contrast to the times at the German music school no longer call, we offer our neighbors for several hours every day listening.
Over the past year and a half Cara participated in 40 concerts, festivals and competitions, which has earned her a thick stack of representative documents. She has on birthdays in restaurants, at a wedding, at the German Christmas Market, in libraries, museums, in the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, in a home for disabled children in an Orthodox and Protestant church and played our course, on all occasions on stage at school. Most performances of the ensemble are approximately 10-minute posts in a concert with many different drivers, but there are also longer performances, especially as trials in the music school or at festivals and competitions, where each ensemble member's solo contributions are required.
Cara is now the third model with a concert dress (after altrose now white and gold, with each matching headbands and shoes were designed to) and in the last week she has (finally) traded in their half against a good violin.
But the highlight so far was definitely the trip with the company to an international youth music festival in Nizhny Novgorod. During spring break in late March 2010, Liliya Maksutowna was accompanied by Aliona Yuryevna that accompanies the ensemble is always on the piano, with the young people by train to the two and a half-day route in the city on the Volga. During the trip was in the greater sleeper practiced every day, only to lose no time to prepare. Also in the hotel where they stayed with other participants from throughout Russia and neighboring countries, had each ensemble member daily two hours of individual instruction, to daily rehearsals. All this culminated in a performance for which the ensemble with 2nd Course was excellent. As the violinists had done their best, they were still the first for the Place This prize money is 1000 rubles per person. Of course, the returning ensemble at School No. 1 and in the music school with great pride was taken in reception.
The sometimes extreme exposure to concerts (there were times with up to four concerts per week), daily practice, the back and held out of the instrument and dress for every (!) Cara weather can certainly stand as good reason because Liliya Maksutowna at all professional need never lose the people in the eye: Basically it fits to the individual lessons to the individual schedule of their students, the samples found in the "podwaltschik" instead (a small basement room with a piano) in School No. 1, so that Cara not need to Music to walk. When a concert in the morning before school in the afternoon Caras pending, she always asks about whether Cara still at home is "fed", or whether she should get her something to eat. Are the concerts in the afternoon, she worried even chocolate bars and drinks as a reward and reinforcement. In the last two weeks before the trip to Nizhny Novgorod were distributed to all participants and vitamin tablets for the train bag as healthy food packed for self catering.

Given the great progress that Cara has made this intensive musical education, and the joy and sense of achievement, she has experienced it, we are happy that their is still ahead of another Russian school year in which they several times a week in the small "podwaltschik" and can be run on different platforms.

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Russian Year in Beijing

"now or never," we thought, and booked the year on a Russian travel agency abruptly a week-long trip to Beijing. After only five hours, very pleasant Night flight, we landed on one - thanks to the 2008 Olympics - ultra modern, huge airport - a foretaste of the dimensions of this city, which should allow us more than once in surprise.

We already experienced here, what it means to be in the "Land of Smiles" stop: Extremely helpful staff edged our way through the spotless halls. At passport control, before we tightened inwardly out of habit and repaid any trace of kindness in our faces, we should give even by pressing a button on our level of satisfaction with the work of the lady-friendly information. Cara: "That I would like in Novosibirsk may also push it!". Of course Women got the switch four times the green smiley.
First we were taken by our guide friendly smile in welcome. Were we under the young man whose beautiful Russian name Maxim had already told us before departure, presented a lingering in Beijing Russian students, he now proved to be true-Chinese who are just kind enough to not bother with the pronunciation of his real name wanted to do. Polite and open-minded as we are, we asked anyway for the "real" name - then also a friendly smile, but to resort to the Russian ...
The Russian tour group we belong to believed there was, then, surprisingly, only made us four. This led to the great comfort that we have exclusively in the next two days, a more convenient and technically very confidence-inspiring Mercedes minibus with a driver and that very Maxim were available. While we tried to us as invisible as possible to lexically Maxim's excellent, but get used to in the debate, but clearly Chinese-influenced Russian (in the set "U nas 10 k r assov" we were able to close only on the right statement because we knew that he explain the Chinese school system was, in the according there are 10 K l), we let him first in the mistaken belief He was actually a "Russian" tour group in front of him. Until later in the drive to the hotel to all parties was the absurdity of the situation awareness: four German and one Chinese talk in China in Russian!
How pleasant it is to be able to express, at least in a foreign language to some extent, then we realized over the next few days when we were traveling without our Chinese Maxim. While the spatial orientation represented through English lettered subway stations and street names no major problem, we all fell into such a state of speechlessness never experienced. While all of us were raised in English Chinese are patient, but helped the friendly smiles and a flood of Chinese words are not always more real.

Even in restaurants in the city center to us - thank goodness! - Submitted illustrated menus with English subtitles so that we at least have an idea about what animals we would rather not eat, the staff was usually quite helpless when Klaus said in his excellent English school special requests like another beer. So we could soon all politeness aside and called the waiter only to nouns, which often leads to the desired success. At a special treat at the end of each restaurant visit us, the question was for the bill, after we had noticed in the first days that the call: "The bill, please!" quite different responses elicited, we concluded soon from betting on what we would do well this time: fresh water for the jasmine tea, the menu or equal to the longest-serving waiter? Our money, we were usually only go when Klaus took his wallet from his pocket and waved a few yuan.
, equally, the Chinese employees and guests in restaurants, at least smiled inwardly at us: Not only do we stick with the hired initially somewhat awkward, so we once even a personal Instruction received, we realized after a few days ago that the pleasantly warm water, which was moved forward to greet us each in small cups, the guests should avoid the obvious way to the wash hand basin. We had been drinking until then always like ... Not

we had expected, that in a world city in the year after the Olympic Games, a European family in the street scene particularly struck by - especially since our big hats, at least in part, blond hair veiled reliable. Particularly on children, Chinese passers-by like to hint attention and above all Cara was often asked to stand by for photos.


The numerous and very active street traders turned their sales pitches like, first to the children, they moved to him, they put on caps or expressed their toys in the hand. A great trial for Julius, who had found so much pleasure in the glass, metal or plastic shaped dragon and Buddha. Only after he had promised himself that he "when he grows up" with a "big" suitcase once again travels to Beijing, he was able to relatively quickly go through with "kitajskij scrap" filled streets.

Of course we visited the major tourist highlights were at Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and were on the Olympic grounds, in the Lama Temple and have a piece of the Great Wall of China climbed. We did the most beautiful parks due to temperatures well below freezing do not enjoy an icy wind really. Impressed us but the groups of retirees in significantly advanced age, gathered around a CD player to dance in pairs or even to practice karaoke. , Ball games of any kind we have seen with young and old in parks often. We ourselves are preferred, however, from time to time to visit a cafe to warm up to us - unfortunately, often without success, not all facilities were equipped with a heater, so we prefer our jackets as the Chinese do not even undressed.


was fascinating architectural contrast between the ultra-modern glass buildings "up in the sky" in the immediate vicinity of the original buildings from Beijing Hutongs: one-story, gray courtyard houses, similar to the Roman atrium houses. Originally designed as a comfortable residences of several square arranged living and economic areas is a clear and often leafy courtyard for a large family, they are now in the face of the exploding urban population at all shared by several families - what in the the street front-mounted electric meter point.


On New Year's Eve then suddenly we felt completely in our current election back home, we scheduled a Russian New Year at our hotel had booked. Russian tourists gathered there to follow menu in Chinese and Russian dance music into the new J to slide ahr. Fortunately, this could be triggered every hour, because at the beginning of the evening so we had to douse the year in Vladivostok and then work through all time zones, and was reached in the early morning hours, Moscow. That evening, Russian and Chinese traditions complemented into a colorful - And very loud - a mixture of dance evening with games and prizes, promotional event of the involved Chinese-Russian tour operators and Chinese show program. As
then the next day was even snow, which said the Beijing population in a state of emergency and any road and air traffic paralyzed, we knew: We can not yet escape our Siberia really!

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TV stars ...

What does not take you all on for a moment no matter how tiny the celebrities! To feel once like Daniel K! More than six months of ice and snow per year, living without a car, shopping without a smile of sales personnel ... But now we have finally made it, we were on TV! Ok, but only in Russian, and only in morning program, and only in the 10th Channel, and only for a good five minutes. But still: The beginning is made! Hollywood, how come!

Just before Christmas, came to me surprised to see a call from the Goethe-Institut. A Russian TV station asked if we know there is not someone, a German who lived here some time in Novosibirsk, and one can ask about how he is celebrating because the New Year here. Now it was so that on 19 December a plane of the ever-popular airline S7, the Siberian capital of the west exit, had on board all the Germans who are behaving this year wanted to mischief, but celebrate Christmas in the circle of domestic love. It remained almost apart from us.
After initial hesitation - we want the eyes the world can look into our living room? - we were but then soon fully ready for the fun, s sewing but we also possible in the spirit of my service contract a modern image to give our homeland, or to give a insight into the life of one or more (perhaps) less normal family in Germany. The editor of the transmitter we agreed on a meeting under a tree on the morning of our first Christmas Day, d yes he is a normal working day.
And so they moved on because: Preserving the editor is always friendly, smiling with her three questions ("How do you celebrate the New Year What traditions from your home? You here? What have you taken to Russian traditions? ") and nice operator (camera man) with a bullet camera that Julius drew immediate spell. was for us sufficient as template. We have . given everything
the occasion of the holiday was indeed the house cleaned, the children were washed Christmas Fair we could -. thanks to the constant expectations of our children during Advent and admittedly, even our own needs - offers the full range without which we would have to specifically prepare for the concert: Christmas tree, Advent, Advent calendar, crib - from Julius in distance education in time completed, cookies, bars and even print - we were not splashed us. And Sabine and I, we have also talked to the head and neck and far more telling, almost no missionary, as the good people - as it sometimes seemed - wanted to know. Why do we as this beat with our need to communicate over the traces? Hard to say. Most likely a desperate attempt, the constant spiritual void that we have seen particularly in the period before the new year, somehow compensate after all.
The children stayed there much more relaxed. Julius was fixed in the bottom only to the camera with all its scroll wheel and buttons, Cara was at least good enough to explain the meaning of the Advent wreath, have otherwise both the persistent requests of the TV people, but even pretty under the Christmas tree with Christmas gifts to play, ignoring cold.
After an hour everything was over, and we had already started to pack our bags for Beijing. Now, "come home" to Novosibirsk, I hope, however, that I of the film, which a friend of us has actually seen on New Year's morning on television, somehow can get hold of, then I put it here - and then we can all wait together with power for the next Oscars!