Tour de Mendelssohn - Day 3

So, the first two-and-half days are almost over ... and I've got to admit that I'm gonna go mad if the next 17 days are gonna be like this. Yesterday filming started at 8 o'clock and we finally finished at 22:30 h or something! And today, filming time wasn't that long, but I had to translate a quite difficult interview, listening both in English and Japanese, then translating Japanese parts in German and vice versa ... Afterwards I felt like an open dictionary gone "matrix". Actually, I'm wondering if this documentary is going to be 7 hrs long. These guys are filming and filming and filming... very Japanese (kichoumen)!

But Mrs Yamxxxchi is really nice. She's soooo beautiful! Soo thin (but not in that ill way like other Japanese gals), but still strong, very natural, and sometimes really ... mean (dokuzetsu). And she's absolutely smart. Sometimes I feel like I don't need to translate anything, because she gets the point by intuition. And by the way, she looks almost younger than me though she's a Fourtysomething!! Amazing!!!

To talk and learn about (classic) music is very inspiring and mind opening. That's also because our interview partner, MDR orchestra's conductor Mr Jun Maerkl, is such a nice and very deep kind of person. Every single thing he says is well thought and gets exactly to the point. Today, when he did some kind of a conduction class in the Musikhochschule in front of Japanese students, you could realize what a good teacher he is. And listening to a piano version of "Fingals Cave" was absolutely touching. The melody Felix Mendelssohn created is unbelievable. It opens one's heart immediately and you can see the ocean and its waves moving forth and back.

I'm looking forward (and also afraid of) to doing the next filmings - 2 dys Leipzig, 4 dys Scotland, 4 dys Switzerland, 2 dys Berlin and again 5 dys Leipzig!
(And until the next entry, I'm quite sure that some funny or embarrassing mishaps will occur ...)