Update

Hey you outhere in the cold....
Here the update of the crazy lovestory between Geraldine and Berlin!
Things constantly go up and down and I enjoy ! being a surfer on those waves of life...
Somehow I manage to keep my life always incredibly tense and stressy, but yeah, I can relax in the moment so thats okay, don't worry, I won't suffer a heart attack...not yet ;-)
For example, I attended the 3 weeks business seminar at my college, not realizing, that I wouldn't have holidays because of that. Thus I have finished the seminar last weekend, with a successful presentation of my project (a Talent Agency for young stupid idiots like me who have a talent but don't know how to get it out there!) just to jump into the last term of my Academiy Year at the European College of Liberal Arts this week....
I will have as an elective Directing and Dramaturgy with David Levine, an acclaimed New Yorker Director and Artist...I am very excited about that....it will be 100% stressy but worth the effort I guess. I already had him as my prof last term in "Installation Art" which was a very challenging and very very intense but wonderful class...
In our corecourse of intellectual history we will read Jane Austen, Kant, Dostojevski, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Nieztsche....

...And the summer is coming in Berlin! The trees get greener every day...Sun warms the streets...The cafes revive...WOW! :)

I still play the guitar, and life provides me every now and then with emotional supplies which I can transform into my "temporary songs" which i always forget a few days afterwards....

But as life goes on my songs go on...

I am also practicing more and more piano and take singing lessons. Music, more and more evidently plays an inherent role in my life...Without arts and music and creative output in any form my life is non-existent...

People here are beautiful. Two relationships became much more meaningful and intense over the course of the last few weeks or months: Theresa (a girl with whom I went to school back in southern Germany for over 12 years) and I see each other very often and man, she is such a wonderful, beautiful young woman! Conversations with her have such a depth and she has so many incredible insights concerning education (she is currently doing an internship in a kindergarden) and life in general and she has a wonderful wonderful boyfriend. Happy for you! Oh yes, and she is a f****** great inspiration and aid when it comes down to art-projects!!! without her I just wouldn't have achieved the same in the Installation Arts class....
The other girl is Mira, the RA from our house. She is ukrainian and 23 and just one of the funniest persons ever! She is the one who can really bring me to outbursts of laughter, who shares with me all those stupid crazy boystories (well, we admit talking 80 % about boys! ;)) and who is just fun to go out with.... Surely, it wouldn't be me if there wasn't as well a deeper meaning behind our encounters and conversations...and there is some nice prospect for our future: she is apparently an expert of the carpat mountains where my Grandfather Yule Kilcher went to way back before he moved to Alaska. His idea of the autonom commune which he wanted to found in Homer, Alaska, was inspired by the Hutsuls, a people in the carpatian mountains... So, mabe my sister Juli's dream of going there and tracing back his path and inspiration, will eventually come true....and so, maybe Mira and I will be hiking together in the mountains...'d be so great!!!!!!

what else can I say about my life here. I feel a bit puzzled because I have the feeling I should organize things for next year but as a matter of fact I just have to make money and then see what happens. Internships would be great and I would have to apply now, but I decided not to, but to leave everything very open so I could react flexible to what life offers me on the road...

Oh, yes, maybe I start working here in the biggest entertainment and convention and hotel complex of Europe...I met the Managing Director of Estrel when I was hitchhiking back from Basel to Berlin... Pretty cool....

But I will have to see how much time I can afford....besides studying...

so..that s it for the moment....I will keep you updated ...
smiles :))

geraldine