Germany I am here!!!

My first stop in Germany was Leipzig after a very very long train journey we made it. Of course as we leave the train we step out into the pouring rain, (great start to Germany) and we get lost classic mum and Matt. We eventually have to go into another Hotel and ask where our Hotel is which I felt very bad about. We find the Hotel and it is amazing. Beautiful green stone everywhere, beautiful bar, beautifully over priced restaurant and beautiful German staff. (Why they all had to be female I don't know) we wandered around Leipzig on the first day must say not much going on in Leipzig but we went to the ballet that night and it was amazing. It was a piece called Jim Morrison and it was just incredible. It was so athletic and powerful, a real mans show the girls almost had no part. It was a good friend of mines first role as a soloist so that was great to watch him perform and be apart of it. I did my first audition of the tour in Leipzig. I felt that I danced quite well but alas got culled after turns. (Which I was surprised at considering I was the only person who was doing more than three turns thank you very much) I met some Aussies there from NZ school of dance which was cool. Also there was a friend which I met in a competition in Beijing so it was great to see him.

The rest of our time in Leipzig was nice but nothing special I was sick so stayed in the sauna most of the time. (Everyone in Germany loves to sauna naked so I felt quite weird sitting there nudie rudie but got into it in the end) We left Leipzig and off we went to Dresden. All I knew about Dresden was that the company was amazing nothing else, I left with more knowledge about the city than I could have imagined. We went on a bus tour around Dresden (touristy I know) but it was amazing, Dresden has so much history it was amazing. It was bombed in 1945 for those of you that dont know, it burnt for 5 days. The city sat in ruins for twenty years before it started rebuilding. They used the old bricks from the original buildings to rebuild them. The bricks therefore had black ash all over them. (Mum and I are walking around thinking wow they really could do with a good clean) Even the history before its bombing was amazing. It has the largest collection of porcelain in the world and the second most important art collection coming second to the Louvre of course. Anyway enough about the incredible city.
The ballet company was just incredible, I managed to stand next to their principle female artist who is like 6"1 and with legs around her ears. I felt very small to say the least. I enjoyed class though it was amazing to be dancing in a room with so much talent. I was really inspired doing class with them. Unfortunately they don't have any contracts but I would have been way to small anyway. Class was in the back of the opera house but the front was just stunning. It was up there in beauty next to the Opera Garnier in Paris. The whole theatre was destroyed in 1945 so it gave them an amazing opportunity to build something beautiful and old on the outside with original designs by Semper but the inside could be improved and modernized.

On our final day in Dresden it snowed for the first time since I've been in Europe. It was so beautiful what a difference a day makes. Dresden gave us rain, wind, cloud, sun and finally snow. I was totally blown away with every aspect of Dresden. Over and out.