A weekend in the life.

I did a lot this weekend, and I took a lot of photos of it, too. Then I made a nice flickr album out of it! Here it is, I hope you enjoy it, and your comments are welcome!

Weinachtskonzert

I preformed in my village band's (it sounds all quaint, but Lantershofen really is too small to be called anything else) Christmas concert. I even had a solo, (well, a soli, with the other oboist) in which we played the part of... bagpipes. If you can get past the German at the beginning, (I wanted to put subtitles in, but I couldn't find a good way to do that) it's mostly music afterwards.

Dinner For One

A curious tradition of German New Year is the yearly showing of Dinner for One. Every year since 1972 German television runs a short, english stage skit on New Year's Eve. It is arguably the most popular thing in German television: in 2003, it was broadcast 19 times on various channels on New Year's, and has been broadcast in total more than 230 times, making it the most frequently rerun television program in the world. All this despite being in in English, presented without subtitles, and being totally unknown in English-speaking countries.



My German host family knows the dialogue by heart, and was highly confused when I hadn't heard of it.