fireworks

yesterday the city celebrated 'la fete de la mere' - the festival of sea, which actually is organized at the day of the maria himmelsfahrt (what so ever that would be in english, the day to celebrate maria-the-mother-of-jesus, around august 15th). all the streets were packed with people and restaurants were full, so we didn't have our normal dinner in the restaurant, but a private dinner (much more delicious than the restaurant, but much more work for us..). at 10.30 pm there was a fire work over the sea organized by the city. the most amazing i've ever seen. a french guy who comes 'from the most professional fire work town' was a little disappointed, he had seen better ones, this was the basic one. or something. i was amazed already after the first sixth (yes, i can tell that, there were three parts, like in a symphony, and they were rhythmically different, with little pauses in between). and it just kept getting better until i thought it could no more. and there was still one part to go. the colors, the rhythmic, the sounds, it all fit together. the first part was quiet, so it was more like watching music in the sky. the third was so loud that well - we could hear the music while watching it. nice. you can forget about the fireworks in the opening of the new main railway station in berlin... afterwards the aforementioned musician came again to sing with us. this time he had even prepared some songs in english.

today i was just so tired. i've been sleeping eight hours a night, and still i need to take a one to two hour nap everyday. so after morning program i slept, went to the beach to read and to sleep some more and to swim, and left when it started raining. so not much happening today..