Dancing with stars

Ok, I admit it. Bollywood dance is not very German. But since Bride & Prejudice I always wanted to do this once and this saterday I had the chance to do it in Neustadt. In NEUSTADT. So a Dutch girl goes to a German class of Indian dancing.. and got charmed immediately. This dance style is so elegant, and powerful at the same time. The movements also mean things, in one dance a whole story is depicted, especially by the hands. That makes it even more magical. The dance is may look easy which it is totally not, but we got a very good teacher that learned us in four hours almost a complete choreography. So that we at least got the feeling what it was like (sweating, sweating..). It was great fun. From every dance style I once tried (jazz ballet, streetdance, salsa), this I found the most interesting.

When I got home the kids jumped on me, and Mieke made a nice "price" of icecream with baked apples. Then they found I had to perform something I learned. Unfortunately I found it really hard to remember the dance sequence by myself and in such a small space it didn't go particulary well. But the audience was amused anyway. Then Malte wanted to dance and together with Gunnar he made a cute performance on the Sankt Martin song. His father then also had to show his talent by showing an "indian" dance too (*rofl*) and an italian dance he danced once with Mieke. So sweet.. then he danced with Malte and Gunnar with me and suddenly the whole family was dancing (except for Philipp who had escaped). We danced until we saw the sky turn pink and Rainer decided to take the kids out. Gunnar was a bit sad, he said it was just so funny and didn't want to let me go, but I really needed to take a shower now..

The night before was wonderfull as well. It was the "Night of Astronomy" in Hannover and I went there after dinner to catch a speech about "Gravitationswellen" and a new space project called LISA satellite. Very interesting. The "Rathaus" looked magical in space lights (see video) and four girls were playing clarinet songs. I got a star cookie and a knowing walnut and then a special bus took us to the Hannover Observatory. And there we could look through a real telescope! The sky was a bit cloudy but we saw Jupiter with two of his moons in a straight line, the seven Pleiaden and even a dim light of the Andromeda Galaxy, our neighbours.. It was amazing. Two kids and I also saw a falling star, but I won't reveal what I wished for :P

Meanwhile, there was another lecture going on and I managed to hear the end. A woman asked the young man a question, but it was more like a statement and a long story then actually a question. The story was about a coincident with dates and her statement was that nothing in life is coincident but that life has a purpose. The scientist calmly commented that everyone experiences such coincidents but that there is no purpose behind it, and that science is not interested in the purpose of life anyway. Science, he explained, isn't saying what things are, but is searching for theories and models to explain phenoms. I found this discussion was getting interesting, but sadly it turned out the woman was not up for discussion. She just rattled on with her story. Even when we were waiting for the bus, she was getting on and on about it. It was really strange and I got the idea that the woman was somewhat crazy. She talked about personal events that could be predicted by numbers of their dates and that she had calculated everything in the Bible and got some big rules out of it. She had gotten seven kids also her job was done. She then asked me what my birthday was. I almost curiously excepted a prediction now but she just murmed something and then ratlled on. The story was difficult to follow but in the end I believe she just wanted Jezus light and peace to come into the world. Another thing she postulated was that the earth is the heart of the Universe. A little centralistic, but really sweet thought, I found. Not only have we become the eye of the Universe, with whom we were looking at its planets tonight, now we were also the heart. Of course, if love is anywhere, then it is on earth :)