Swoosh!

Winter break started last Friday and yesterday we do what all good Swiss families are supposed to do during the holidays – we went skiing. 

Weather was perfect – blue skies, temp around 30 degrees, little wind, clear view for taking in the scenery.

Both girls are doing great and will be downright scary-fast after their lessons in January. 

Mira riding the T-bar up to one of the littler runs.

Arianna riding up.

Mira

Fabulous views. What you can’t see is that between the houses and range of mountains beyond is a valley that’s about 1000 feet down. Makes for a fun car ride up!

There is about 3-4 feet of snow on the ground.

Think they’d let me move in here?

Took a few videos of the girls. Double click the picture to go to our YouTube account to see all 3.

Swoosh!

Arianna’s Winter concert

Beginning in 4th grade all students at the international school must take instrument lessons. Arianna chose the trumpet. It’s amazing how quickly she has learned, never having any music lessons before. 

The school had it’s winter concert last week and I took some videos of her playing. The picture isn’t great, but the sound is rather good. 

 The first video is the trumpet choir, made up of the trumpet students who take additional private lessons once a week with the band director.  They play “Star Wars’ followed by “O herre Gott, Dein gottlich Wort” and for the first song, Arianna is standing furthest to your right, the second song she is furthest to your left. 

 The next video is of the entire beginner band. It has about 40-50 students who all began playing this year. I was blown away when they started playing.  You won’t be able to see Arianna at all.

If you double click on one of the videos, it will take you to my YouTube account. To the right you will see my user name “Knitserland”. Click on this and you will get to a page with all of the concert videos. Click on each one to view.

 Enjoy.