Diane’s World

Two songs of the week - the first one is a classical piano piece written AND preformed by the lovely Matt Bellamy.

The second is the MUSE song I’ve been introducing to my German friends and family - and seems to have been received very well. It’s called “Starlight” and is unusually optimistic and upbeat for a Muse song.

The reason for this, is Muse is really all I’ve been listening to recently. So… it’s hard to post anything else especially when all other music pales in comparison with Muse… well at least in my mind.I have a lot of pictures for this week -so much has been going on.

Earlier this week (I think Tuesday?) we took a tour of Medienhof with some of the group. Here is a group picture

Notice how I’m one of two people to have light colored hair. I’ve never been so outnumbered!

Remember this building from an earlier post?

(The large godzilla creature is normally my tiny Thai friend named Naritha)

Well we went all the way up to the top for a very small price of 3 Euros (so much better than whatever it costs to go up the space needle!!!)

And the view was absolutely amazing!

What you see in this picture is my Canadian/Iranian friend, Hamid, and my German/Iranian friend, Sascha, over looking Medienhof and the far back city is Köln! If you look hard enough, you can even see the Köln cathedral!

I plan to go to Köln in about three weeks for the large carnival they have there every year. I am excited!

It was kind of creepy how far we could lean on the glass

(My friend is Andrea- she is from Brazil)

We got to roam the city a bit - they had really awesome architecture. Here are some of my favorite buildings.

These three buildings were built by Frank Gehry, the same guy who designed the EMP. He is a famous deconstructionist - I even learned a great deal about him while in Art history at school.

I also enjoyed this building:

Except I’m not sure if I’d want to work in a building with little people peeking in at me.

Oh and this one was also interesting:

Ok enough of the architecture!

On thursdays is Stammtisch night - where we go to a bar together.

This is the other Zivi, Christopher. And next to him is a very polite gentleman from New York who I already forgot him name. (oops!)

And here is my Irish friend, Catherine (who has never heard of Damien Rice even though he was born and raised in Ireland! AHH!) Every picture I have of her looks like this.

The rest of the weekend has been extremely low-key - getting lots of sleep, doing a lot of studying, and grabbing coffee while walking through the rainy streets of my little city.

It is a good life in Germany.

I have a few crazy friends who make me laugh.

The people I live with are nothing short of the nicest people I ever met. They are very kind and are always checking that I am happy. Plus allowing me all the free laundry and coffee and tea that I’ll ever want

And oddly enough… seeing this on my computer’s dashboard every morning makes me not so keen on wanting to go back to Dordt (Sioux Center is where my college is - the bottom weather map, Düsseldorf is where I am now… the second to the top weather map.)

However, the senior shows have been announced!!! My senior show starts on March 7th. When I decided who would be the best combination in my show, I got exactly the people I would’ve wanted (our show is going to be a very high-quality wide ranged show!)

Dave Schierbeek - Makes the amazing ceramics I have already posted. His drawings are quite good as well.

Mary VanEssen - Photographer/Other media.

Matt Berkenpas and Aaron Huisman - work together and do a lot of professional film stuff and both have other media as well.

Mallory McConnell - Art Education major but has some very good sculptures and paintings

And then there is me - all I submitted was sculptures and paintings.

It will run for a month - so if you are in the area, please check it out! I would give up a lot to see that show, but sadly I cannot make it. Therefore those who can see it must go for me!

Finally, I’ve been doing my hair differently these days. Now I look more European. Whee!

And this next photo was taken while talking to my sister on Skype today (i love you Rachel!)

Well I think that’s all I have to say for now. I have a few unfinished paintings - but those will have to wait a few days before I allow you to see them

Have a wonderful weekend! I’ll post again soon!
Diddles!