Sore Back?
The nice thing about Christmas here is the surplus of gingerbread in stores. Of course, Christmas is still a ways off, but without much Halloween celebrating here and certainly no Thanksgiving, it's the next holiday coming up here. Anyway, I bought some good, thick gingerbread cookies today and just ate one with a cup of chamomile tea. That felt good after a busy day; tea always helps my head when it's hurting.
I ate in the cafeteria downtown today. It's a cafeteria that many students from my music school, as well as businessmen and women eat at. After a whole year of living here, however, I just found out where it a few weeks was since there was no sign. I realized you have to go with someone the first time because it's very hidden, even though it's right around the corner from our bldg. Anyway, now that I know where it is, I have been going pretty regularly. It's a decent meal for about $2.60. Well, decent is relative. Today's selections were 1.)scrambled egg/ spinach/potatoes, or 2.) deer/cooked red cabbage/potatoes. I chose the deer. Not a good decision. You know how cafeteria meat is always a lesser quality than anywhere else in the world? Well it proved true here too. So I picked at it and ate the less weird parts until I felt not hungry anymore and just got a Twix bar from the music school vending machine later.
I also had Rueckenschule (back school) today. One cool thing about this music school is they offer a lot of different fitness/exercise courses, even yoga. I chose this "healthy back" because, frankly, when isn't there a person who could use some good stretches for a tight or sore back, especially as a cramped, tense musician? Anyway, the class takes stretches from yoga, some moves from pilates, and just some general "balancing-out" stretches and exercises. The point is to strenthen the muscles that don't get used as often as the ones we musicians use everyday and to balance the whole body to prevent unnecessary aches and pains in the future, much less do permanent damage.
The instructor is a, roughly, 65+ yr. old man who has abs of steel. Today we used a long piece of exercise rubber..like a huge flattened rubber band..to use as resistance for arm exercises. It's a practical, easily-stored means of exercise; using the tension from the rubber strip as well as your body as resistance is just as effective as hand weights. I might have to see about where one can buy such a piece of rubber for the future.
I ate in the cafeteria downtown today. It's a cafeteria that many students from my music school, as well as businessmen and women eat at. After a whole year of living here, however, I just found out where it a few weeks was since there was no sign. I realized you have to go with someone the first time because it's very hidden, even though it's right around the corner from our bldg. Anyway, now that I know where it is, I have been going pretty regularly. It's a decent meal for about $2.60. Well, decent is relative. Today's selections were 1.)scrambled egg/ spinach/potatoes, or 2.) deer/cooked red cabbage/potatoes. I chose the deer. Not a good decision. You know how cafeteria meat is always a lesser quality than anywhere else in the world? Well it proved true here too. So I picked at it and ate the less weird parts until I felt not hungry anymore and just got a Twix bar from the music school vending machine later.
I also had Rueckenschule (back school) today. One cool thing about this music school is they offer a lot of different fitness/exercise courses, even yoga. I chose this "healthy back" because, frankly, when isn't there a person who could use some good stretches for a tight or sore back, especially as a cramped, tense musician? Anyway, the class takes stretches from yoga, some moves from pilates, and just some general "balancing-out" stretches and exercises. The point is to strenthen the muscles that don't get used as often as the ones we musicians use everyday and to balance the whole body to prevent unnecessary aches and pains in the future, much less do permanent damage.
The instructor is a, roughly, 65+ yr. old man who has abs of steel. Today we used a long piece of exercise rubber..like a huge flattened rubber band..to use as resistance for arm exercises. It's a practical, easily-stored means of exercise; using the tension from the rubber strip as well as your body as resistance is just as effective as hand weights. I might have to see about where one can buy such a piece of rubber for the future.
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