In the morning, we prepared the text for a recording of Schillers “Bürgschaft” (English: “the pladge”). Too late, namely in Malaysia, I started the project of reading that poem by the friends I visit, always some lines up to one of the nineteen stanzas. First, I read the text and she made a recording, later she tried it herself.
Constanze and I went to a skating area in the 5th floor of a mall.
She could do it a bit and for me it was the first time after 45 years to do it and I was shocked how bad and insecure I felt on the ice.
But apparently, a nice little girl also was shocked and lent me a kind of walking frames for ice skating where I could find hold and compensate my disability to stay balanced.
We did it for 25min, then there was a 30min-break for preparing the ice again. That was good, because not only my feet needed to recover because of the hurting shoes, also I as a whole was a bit exhausted by those shaky and clumsy movements. And Constanze used the break to practice Schiller.
After another 30min, the movements of both of us were a bit more fluent, but I still had preferred to have my skating walking frames and I was ok with the end of our training, because it was not only exhausting for the body, I also had to concentrate much to keep my balance and not to fall, because I am getting more and more in that age where falling becomes dangerous and I don’t want to test my bones if they break or not. Not on this trip, at least.
At home, Constanze and I made a video of her reading.
She wants to be perfect and as a singer she is used to listen carefully and besides that she has some language skills additionally to Chinese and English in Italian, French, German and even Russian. So, it will be a nice recording (I want to edit it during my stay in Shenzhen)
In our last evening, Constanze invited me to a Sushi restaurant (“you don’t go to Japan anyway, so we can have Sushi in Zhuhai!”) and I dare say it was better than what I know from Austria.
At home, it was time for packing, Constanze for going home to her parents (Spring festival is the time of family reunions in China) and I for going on to Shenzhen for nearly visiting Hasmik and staying in her apartment (she is in Armenia where we had seen each other in August 2018).