Germany Week 35 - Shaping Lives

This week was again spent in Meissen Porcelain Manufaktur. Well, of course not the entire week! We were again in a separate part where they were doing clay mock-ups of the various body parts of a 2.8 meter high porcelain woman that they are working on. Porcelain dries much too fast for it to be sculpted from scratch in such a large scale. I was also able to do the audio work at a place we filmed with my company. It was neat to actually be able to contribute this time! On Friday, I had heard about a famous bridge in Dresden with a couple bars right down on the water next to it. Trez, Janne, and I decided we would go there to visit it. It was very pretty down there and the bar/restaurant was pretty cool. We had a few visitors to Dresden this past weekend, Michael, Scott, and Allison. We hung out on Saturday and had a nice walk around the city and went to a bar later. It was cool to have visitors in Dresden, and again, anyone that wants to visit us is welcome!

Germany Week 34 - The Soft Side of Roughness

This week was started off with another awesome trip with the camera crew to Meissen Porcelain. This time, as you can see from the main picture of the video, we were filming an American artist named Jen Ray. She is very talented, although she said that sculpting porcelain was something that she has picked up within the last few years. This overall project will be explained more in the video, just know that it is going to be an amazing of lavish, garnished porcelain tools and weapons with what Jen said: "have a romantic side to them." The day was filled with this interesting project. I'm sure that we will be going back there many times to film its progress. No news really from the Vogelstation, most of it was spent hacking up weeds... long, thorned vine weeds. Skipping to Saturday which was having a beer with Trez, Kelsey, and Kerstin at Freiburger. It was more of a chilled out weekend, only 3 more weeks until my birthday and our grand trip across the country of Austria, and mostly within Vienna!

 

Germany Week 33 - The Finer Things of Life

This week was not quite as packed with events every single day to pass the time. The days that were filled with those things though, wow did I see a lot! On Wednesday was a day spent at the Vogelstation, caring for animals and a little baby rabbit, it was all quite enjoyable that day. Thursday and Friday were spent at the factory of the oldest and finest porcelain makers in all of Europe, in Meissen. The whole camera crew was treated to wonderful meals at the restaurant they have there. It was probably a couple of the nicest meals that I have ever had. Meissen Porcelain is truly a thing of beauty, completely unmatched by anything that I have ever seen. Saturday was a weekend day spent relaxing, going to a burger restaurant, watching movies, and drinking wine together. It was a great week, and hope to see more of them!

Meissen, Home of the Finest Porcelain in All of Europe

This post especially goes out to my Grandma who I know who really enjoy these pictures!

Here is a look at the famous Meissen Porcelain. Meissen Manufaktur was started in 1710, they were the 2nd manufacturers in all of the world to manufacture porcelain. The Chinese were the first, and the Germans, the second. I was there with the film crew from my internship to film the Meissen porcelain painters. Their master painters are some of the best porcelain painters in all of Europe. It was a great honor to be able to see and watch them work.

 

Germany Week 32 - Prague Round 2

A bit of a filming break was taken early in the week, I do apologize for that. Though this weekend is still packed with videos from the 5 star fish restaurant "Kastenmeier's" that I went to with the film crew to film a presentation over Meißen Porcelain. And for the weekend, as the title might suggest, I went to Prague for the 2nd time, ROUND 2 IN PRAGUE! I went with Trez and Mike, both PPPlers. We met Janne there, that poor soul had already been there for 5 days on his own. Luckily he survived. The weekend was filled with mistakes, mishaps, dangerous Czech trains, beautiful sights, beautiful architecture, a pub crawl, and much more. Prague is a really neat city, I appreciate its beauty and would recommend anyone to go there at least once. Twice is enough for me I do believe!

Germany Week 31 - 5th Dimension Birthday Parties

Spring-time may finally be coming around. This week's video of week 31 here in Germany showcases a step-up from my usual video editing/creating, I would really love to keep improving as much as possible.This week included birthdays of what seems to be the "Dresden 30th PPP host family." On Tuesday Falk's birthday was celebrated and Kerstin's also on Saturday and a bit of Sunday. Throughout this week are many funny clips, a little bit with food, some with birds, a little conversation from the Germans, and all the extra stuff that goes along with it! Leave feedback and tell me what you guys think!

Germany Week 30 - Reasons to Cheer Up

30 Weeks here in Germany. Wow has it gone by fast, very stereotypical saying, but still it seems that way! For the first few days of the week I was pretty homesick and just kind of sad overall. My first day at the Vogelstation/Bird Rescue/Care Center on Wednesday cheered me right up. I had an absolutely great time interacting with all the birds, animals really just make me happy in general. After cheering up, I was once again excited to be here in Germany and I will make the best of these last 4 1/2 months here. Of course during this week was lots of delicious food, a rave that I was unlucky enough to have no film of, and just fun times. I've done something that I though my non-German speaking viewers would like. Of course I don't mean that insultingly, I just wanted to mention that from now on I will be putting in English subtitles for the German spoken in my video. I will try and subtitle it all but honestly I cannot always understand, and sometimes my subtitles may be incorrect, just bear with me and I will do my best. Hope you guys enjoy this week, 7 months in Germany already!