Happy New Year!

I wish all of you a Happy New Year. May all your resolutions (if you make any) come true!
Oh well, right, I had my driving licence test on thursday. I failed. Yes, it was my fault... :[

Merry Christmas!!!

Hi everybody! I wish all of you (and your families) a merry christmas! I hope you have peaceful holidays.
Get loads of presents!!
I miss you all!
Love, Elisabeth

MSN

Hey guys!
To those of you who use MSN messenger: I do too now!!! Just tell me (I added all of you who have a hotmail address into my buddy list) if you want me to add you. I use my usual email address (please understand that I won't write it here...). If you want to find me by profile, my nickname is Schmetterling-87.
I also have ICQ by the way (which can also work with AIM), so just tell me which way you want to chat with me!!!

I DID IT!!!!

Please imagine a more enthusiastic Fred!! I passed the theoretical driving license test!!! No mistakes!!!! JEEEHAAA!!! I can't believe it!!!! I'm going to take the practical test on Dec 29!!!

Am I too old?!?

I just watched the show about the football (soccer) worldcup in 2006 and I realized that I really like their logo. Their mascot is really cute too. I'm honestly thinking about buying a keyring with Goleo... I'm 18 - is that too old? What do you think???
Did I tell you that I find the mascots of the Olympic Wintergames in Torino supercute? I really want to get something with them. I'm getting childish (is it the time? - it's 11:17 pm...). They're - by the way - called Neve ("snow"), Gliz ("ice") and Aster (the mascot of the Paralympics)

There are some really great teachers in this world (well, at least at my school...)!!!

I gave my Basta CDs to the teacher who "manages" our choir and in return he burnt me 2 CDs with more a cappella music. At the moment I'm listening to "Ganz schön feist". Tomorrow, he'll give my the 2nd CD - King's Singers. I'm really curious. He also said that he would do a Wise Guys song with us (one of the easier ones, but it's really nice!!!). When I told him about Montezuma's Revenge, he just said that he was doing one of their songs with his group. This is so funny. I liked him before, but it's just so great that he likes the same music I like. It really makes me happy (if you can understand that...).
Then, I was in a meeting for preparing the christmas service at school. We were 2 students and 3 teachers, but it was soooo funny. We nearly couldn't stop laughing. And in the tram homebound I meet my Physics teacher from last year. He's pretty young (NO, he's married *g*), and we talked all the way. He's really nice.
So, at home I realized that I had loads of good experiences with teachers today. It's some kind of strange and great at the same time...

If you're interested:
http://www.kingssingers.com/ (in English - they're from Great Britain)
http://ganzschoenfeist.de/ (in German...)

BASTA!!!

Yesterday was the Basta concert! It was sooo great! I went there with Judith, Francesca (her Italian exchange partner), Anna and Chiara (my new Italian friend). They played so many new songs that it was even for us "old" fans new and funny. We laughed soo hard... :]] And it was funny when William (one of the band) announced one of the older songs (I have on CD) the "knowing" fans already started laughing and he was quite confused which caused him, the rest of the band and the audience to even laugh more *GGG*...
The two Italian girls didn't understand everything (obviously, most of the songs are in German... - their German is amazing, by the way!), but I think they liked it anyway...
Chiara is such a lovely girl!! I'm really looking forward to going to Italy in February. She also invited my to come and visit her next sommer to go swimming.

Recent News

Ok, I have some some news for you all (it's mainly a summary of what happened last week...).
So we had the first snow over here - but it's all gone again. It's still really cold though. AND I had to do my driving lesson by night in ice and snow - quite scary...
Chiara is about to come. At 6:45 pm I'll go and fetch her from the main station. Her stay is from today till Dec 6. I'm really looking forward.
Some news that are less good: I failed the theoretical exam for my driving licence on Tuesday :[ . I hope I can repeat it on Dec 6 (it's the next date I could do it, I have to wait 2 weeks... sh***...)

Hi Chiara

I have my partner for the exchange with Mondovì now. Her name is Chiara.
Welcome to my blog! When you read through all of this, make sure you read the post titled with "It's the little things that brighten up your day" because I will take you to that concert! I really hope you'll like it. See you soon in Heidelberg!

A Cappella

Ok, yesterday I told you I saw posters for one of my favorite a cappella groups. In conclusion, this means that I listen to the music of more than one a cappella group ;] . I already linked the first group, which is my No. 1 in (German) A Cappella: The Wise Guys!!!

These 5 guys are really great! They have been doing music together since 1995. I've only known them since spring 05 - unfortunately :[ . I missed lots of fun while being on their concerts (they already had 4 or 5 [or even more] concerts in Heidelberg). I was on a concert on November 7. It was sooo much fun. Their lyrics are great: some are simply funny, some are critical and some are serious. They have a song for (nearly) every situation in life. Most of their songs are written by themselves and in German...

They're becoming more and more popular over here, the concert on Nov 7 was sold out - so I already bought the tickets for the next concert, which is on May 10, 2006. I'm so crazy *ggg*. I can't wait to go to that concert - shortly before they'll release their new CD. Guess who's going to run to the CD shop?!?Another a cappella group I've only known for a short time is Montezuma's Revenge.

This Dutch group have been doing music for 20 years - isn't that amazing?!? They mainly cover pop and rock songs (e.g. "Losing my Religion", "Smells like teen spirit" or "Splish, Splash"). I got their music via internet - no, not illiegal ;] . I'm pretty active on the Wise Guys Forum (everything's linked in some way *g*) and there's also one girl who's a big fan of the "Zumas". She gave us the tipp that they would offer a download because of their anniversary. That's where I got the music from. And I have to say - I like it... Their homepage, which is in English, is http://www.montezuma.nl .

Sooo, if you know other a cappella stuff, please, tell me!!!