Aka. "Destination Anywhere", "The Boy and Girl from County Bavaria"... After a very intense year in Würzburg (Germany), I'm back in Salamanca. I probably won't have that many experiences to write, but there's always an excuse to post a new entry!

An update on the latest chapters of my life

I've been meaning to post this for a while now, but I couldn't bring myself to. So finally today I've decided to take advantage of the fact that I'm almost voiceless and can't talk to communicate in a different way.

Even though I haven't written anything personal in ages, I have to say that there have been a bunch of changes in my life. The main one is that I've finally decided to overcome one of my biggest fears: I'm not a student anymore. After finishing my masters' course in June (which turned out a lot better than I expected), there was only one thing I was sure of. Whatever I did, I wanted to stay in Salamanca. And there were mainly two reasons for that - my bands and my love (seriously, I couldn't take another shitty, long-distance relationship).

Of course, that meant finding a job (Fear #2), which I spent half the summer doing. I was open for pretty much anything, as long as it wasn't too time-consuming and the schedules allowed me to keep taking singing lessons and rehearsing with the bands. As long as I made enough money to survive without annoying my parents too much. For a few weeks I worked as an operator. The job itself and the atmosphere there sucked ass, but at least I made a decent amount of money. To be honest, the day when I got the call that I was fired was one of the happiest.

In fact, quitting that job gave me the chance to focus on my main professional interest besides arts - teaching. At the end of the summer I began teaching German in a private language school, which is still my main activity. In fact, at the moment I'm teaching German and English in three different places - a language school, an elementary school and my own home.

By the way, this brings me to something else. Yes, again I've moved into a new flat. My room is beautiful, the location couldn't be better and there are no annoying landlords prowling and imposing stupid rules or dictatorial flatmates spoiling the fun. As you can see, I really can't complain about my life right now! Except for the election And I REALLY hope and cross my fingers that everything will stay like this!

Regarding the bands, which is probably what you guys were most looking forward to, everything is going great. In the end I decided to quit Northern Light because I felt that I didn't belong there. I don't like black metal much and I suck at don't enjoy playing keyboard, so it was better to stop and give them the chance to find someone who truly feels identified with the style and can actually play piano. The good news is that I've joined a new project apart from Ohne Seele. The band is called StarShade and we play symphonic rock/metal, influenced by bands like Nightwish, Delain or After Forever. In other words - my dream come true! :D And the best thing of all is that we're actually writing our own stuff, which always feels more special than just doing covers.

Ohne Seele, on the other hand, has been evolving considerably. We're working on a couple of songs of our own, while our repertoire already includes SEVEN songs (covers though). Due to some personal problems, our drummer left the band last summer, but our new one is BRILLIANT. Two weeks ago we finally got the chance to play a 5-song concert, which our audience seemed to enjoy a lot judging by all the positive comments we got. Unfortunately, there are no good videos yet, but there are already plans to create a MySpace site once the recording and arrangements of the first song are complete ("Nymphetamine", by Cradle of Filth feat. Liv Kristine).

We still have no bassist, so StarShade's Bárbara played with us at the concert, as you can see in the pictures. In any case, hopefully soon I'll be able to show you exactly how we sound :)

For now, I believe these are the main novelties. Apart from that, I owe you a post about my summer holiday by the lake and some personal comments about all sorts of topics. Oh, wait a second, I forgot something...

This was my birthday present this year. Welcome to the family, Beethoven Oreo! =)