Introducing Iris...

March 15, 2006 at 8:44 PM

Hi everybody,

I had my violin class today, Iris is my teacher. She is austrian, but she can speak german too

We played a Haydn duo and the first of 6 Telemann sonatas for 2 violins or flutes.
She seems to love Haydn. I don't know her much yet, but she seems to like the kind of music that you can dance and sing. Actually she sings all the time.
She also played a bit of Bartok's romanian folk dances, just for fun, and I'm going to call her just now to see if she can bring the notes next week. They are completely amazing.

Yesterday rehearsal with the chamber orchestra. I didn't enjoy it at all, ...maybe at the end, the first movement. I had slept 9 hours between sunday and tuesday and I had injured my right knee skating on Sunday, and it hurts. I "jumped" to much on one leg, and it's always the right one. Now I see why professionals are so young
I hope I'll do better week time with Britten's symple symphony.
I'm going to update the Homepage and finish my dinner... and then I'd like to take Telemann again, it's "just" 21:30 now, my neighbours will complain I guess

From Linda Lerskier
Posted on March 15, 2006 at 10:48 PM

Oh my! You live in Austria!!!! I'm going there soon!

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From Karin Lin
Posted on March 15, 2006 at 10:59 PM

Hola Jesus,

Um, not to be annoying, but don't ALL Austrians speak German?!

Just read your bio...which company do you work for? I'm in EDA and would love to work in Europe someday.

From Jesus Contreras Espada
Posted on March 16, 2006 at 12:15 AM

probably coming to Vienna, isn't it? Beautiful city, but don't miss Prague and Budapest!

They speak German here, but in a different way. Specially people in Carinthia are very proud of their dialect, and they make big efforts to speak differently. It's really frustrating :(
On the other hand they don't have any problem to understand me...

My company is called SEZ. We have a branch in Phoenix.
It would be great to have you here! :)

From Pauline Lerner
Posted on March 16, 2006 at 3:22 AM

I love those smiley faces. How did you put them in your blog?

From Karin Lin
Posted on March 16, 2006 at 6:06 AM

Ah, ok; I know what you mean about the dialect. I almost accepted a job in Switzerland last year and was quite surprised to find out how different Swiss German is from High German.

Just took a look at the SEZ website. Alas, I'm in software, not manufacturing, but my husband might be a decent fit. Perhaps in a few years... ;)

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