My lips hurt.
Practice 1 hour
Practice 30 minutes
40 minute lesson with mean Latvian guy
30 minute lesson with accompanist
Practice 1 hour with Marthe
Tonight I will go home... and die. After I cook dinner for my flat mates and Sabine. uuuuh. And my headphones broke. Sad day.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Pictures
Oslo Opera and Ballet
Sognsvann... from Ian's perspective
A nice picture through a corridor in the old fortress
Max. Notice the glass like water. Absolutely beautiful.
We played alp horn by the lake for a while.
Monday, October 13, 2008
A few random things...
Well let me start off by saying I haven't had issues with bugs until this very moment... there is a fly in my room!!!
Anyways, I got the gig in Tromso. WHEW HEW! I go up there on November 4th or something like that and stay for a week. All expenses paid. Looks like I will be sitting pretty for the month of November. :)
I am making my plans for my Christmas trip to Germany. I will fly into Munich and then take the train to Augsburg to visit Scott and Blake for a few days. Then I will take the train to Berlin and see the Berlin Phil play Mahler 3 (I'm peeing on myself... I can't wait). Then I will stay with my friend in a city near Dresden for a couple of days and then I'm off to Dresden for a good week or so to be with Romy. After that I am thinking about ending the trip in Paris. That will be one depressingly long train ride, but straight through the heart of Europe... I think it will be worth it. This whole trip will cost less than half of what it costs to go home... so I think it's a pretty sweet deal considering I finally get to go where I want with no restrictions!
Ian is coming tomorrow for a week. I'm sure I will be too busy to take him all around the city this week, but we can at least catch up a bit and it will be nice to have someone familiar around. I'm actually looking forward to it very much except sharing my room... with a boy. ewww.
Hope everyone is alive and well. No one reads this anymore, so I just kind of type it up so no one can blame for not keeping them informed.
Love you all -jo
Anyways, I got the gig in Tromso. WHEW HEW! I go up there on November 4th or something like that and stay for a week. All expenses paid. Looks like I will be sitting pretty for the month of November. :)
I am making my plans for my Christmas trip to Germany. I will fly into Munich and then take the train to Augsburg to visit Scott and Blake for a few days. Then I will take the train to Berlin and see the Berlin Phil play Mahler 3 (I'm peeing on myself... I can't wait). Then I will stay with my friend in a city near Dresden for a couple of days and then I'm off to Dresden for a good week or so to be with Romy. After that I am thinking about ending the trip in Paris. That will be one depressingly long train ride, but straight through the heart of Europe... I think it will be worth it. This whole trip will cost less than half of what it costs to go home... so I think it's a pretty sweet deal considering I finally get to go where I want with no restrictions!
Ian is coming tomorrow for a week. I'm sure I will be too busy to take him all around the city this week, but we can at least catch up a bit and it will be nice to have someone familiar around. I'm actually looking forward to it very much except sharing my room... with a boy. ewww.
Hope everyone is alive and well. No one reads this anymore, so I just kind of type it up so no one can blame for not keeping them informed.
Love you all -jo
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Possible Gig
If you pray, pray.
If you cross your fingers, cross your fingers.
If you send good vibes, keep em coming.
I was offered a gig in the very tip of Norway in November to play the Brahms requiem; all expenses paid plus a salary. And OF COURSE, I am obligated to play the one piece I was assigned for the chamber music week at school at the same time. It looks like there may not be a sub for me, but the possibility is still out there. So everyone do the thing you do that makes good things happen for people... I need it!
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Update
Well nothing too interesting or new has been happening here in Oslo. Things seem to be settling a bit and I'm falling into some kind of routine. I have at least one class each day so I am at school all day every day usually.
This past Friday the horn studio had a class recital. Everyone played really well and I think I did an ok job. I have been doing a lot of "strength training" on my lips and it's definitely taking a toll right now so I wasn't 100% secure playing, but I think it was fine. This strength training consists of an hour of long tones every day and 5 or so Conconne etudes. None the less, it has hard and tiring work. After the recital me and my group of friends went over to a German horn player's apartment (Carla) and had tacos for her birthday. We ended up playing the game where you all stand in a cluster and mix your hands up and make a big knot and then try to untangle yourselves. We gave up after 45 minutes. But by that time the last T-Bane to take us all home had already came. So we caught the train to school and walked home from there. This was the most miserable walk of my life. I had my bag with my books in it, my horn, high heeled shoes and POURING RAIN. And did I mention it was pretty cold? None of the boys walking with us had umbrellas either, so most of us ended up sharing. Never the less we made it to the Sogn student village where all my friends live which is about 25 minutes walk up hill to my apartment. I couldn't do it! It was about 2 am already and I just decided to sleep in my friend's room. So the next day I got up at about 9:30 and caught the bus up the hill to Kringsja. Then I didn't do anything until about 1:30 and I practiced an hour MAYBE. My lips need rest. I'm using muscles I haven't quite felt yet and they are very sensitive and weak. So then I came home after that and watched Forrest Gump. At about 10pm Sabine called me and told me to come over for dinner and to hang out. I knew we wouldn't do anything special but I hadn't really done anything all day so I didn't care. So I walked back down to Sogn... then at 1:30 when I decided to leave, who would have thought... it was RAINING. But this time I didn't care and I walked. Did I mention it was pretty sunny all day yesterday? And it was fairly clear when I was walking there... the weather here is INSANE. It changes in minutes.
Anyways, that has been my not so exciting weekend. I don't have class this week which is nice. The contemporary music ensemble has four hours of rehearsal every day though. BLAH. Not looking forward to this. Sabine and Max are going out of town. I think Gregoire will be out of town. Looks like me, Carla and Julius will be having a dandy old time! Mom and Drew's birthday is on Wednesday. Ian comes for a week next Tuesday. Yay for visitors! Although it will probably wear on me having to share this small room with someone... with Ian. hahaha. But I will do my best NOT to think about that yet.
Anyways, missing everyone in the US. Love you all.
This past Friday the horn studio had a class recital. Everyone played really well and I think I did an ok job. I have been doing a lot of "strength training" on my lips and it's definitely taking a toll right now so I wasn't 100% secure playing, but I think it was fine. This strength training consists of an hour of long tones every day and 5 or so Conconne etudes. None the less, it has hard and tiring work. After the recital me and my group of friends went over to a German horn player's apartment (Carla) and had tacos for her birthday. We ended up playing the game where you all stand in a cluster and mix your hands up and make a big knot and then try to untangle yourselves. We gave up after 45 minutes. But by that time the last T-Bane to take us all home had already came. So we caught the train to school and walked home from there. This was the most miserable walk of my life. I had my bag with my books in it, my horn, high heeled shoes and POURING RAIN. And did I mention it was pretty cold? None of the boys walking with us had umbrellas either, so most of us ended up sharing. Never the less we made it to the Sogn student village where all my friends live which is about 25 minutes walk up hill to my apartment. I couldn't do it! It was about 2 am already and I just decided to sleep in my friend's room. So the next day I got up at about 9:30 and caught the bus up the hill to Kringsja. Then I didn't do anything until about 1:30 and I practiced an hour MAYBE. My lips need rest. I'm using muscles I haven't quite felt yet and they are very sensitive and weak. So then I came home after that and watched Forrest Gump. At about 10pm Sabine called me and told me to come over for dinner and to hang out. I knew we wouldn't do anything special but I hadn't really done anything all day so I didn't care. So I walked back down to Sogn... then at 1:30 when I decided to leave, who would have thought... it was RAINING. But this time I didn't care and I walked. Did I mention it was pretty sunny all day yesterday? And it was fairly clear when I was walking there... the weather here is INSANE. It changes in minutes.
Anyways, that has been my not so exciting weekend. I don't have class this week which is nice. The contemporary music ensemble has four hours of rehearsal every day though. BLAH. Not looking forward to this. Sabine and Max are going out of town. I think Gregoire will be out of town. Looks like me, Carla and Julius will be having a dandy old time! Mom and Drew's birthday is on Wednesday. Ian comes for a week next Tuesday. Yay for visitors! Although it will probably wear on me having to share this small room with someone... with Ian. hahaha. But I will do my best NOT to think about that yet.
Anyways, missing everyone in the US. Love you all.
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