Family, Mexico, Germany…

Hi there, and again, I am on the go. This time I am writing you from Germany. I am back to my little city. I just arrived and I am complitely tired and with jetlag, it will get better in 2 or 3 days, I hope.

This week I had the opportunity on Monday to teach again at Escuela Superior de Musica, to the students of Professor Hector Sosa. They are all so talented specially 2 or 3, but that is only my opinion, perhaps the others are the once making career, at the end what it counts is how determined and consistent you are, then, who knows how far you can get. I cannot thank enough to Hector for letting me give advice to his students, he must be really confident and really stoic to let someone else give some input to his students, so thank you Hector for your kindness and support. I really learn a lot while teaching, it is a 2 way street. Although I have teach already some, I find everytime and specially this time in Mexico how much I love it. I love to understand and guide the mind behind the voice of whomever is singing for me. To be pedagogic is for me the way to make them sing better. One day I definitely would like to teach at a Conservatoire.

This week was my last one in Mexico, so I took advantage of being there and I saw some friends and family, had as many coffees as I wanted (maybe too many), had time with myself, and visit some of the many places I wanted to visit (cause I could not see all). I will save those I did not managed to visit for the next time I am in Mexico.

I kept learning Die Lustige Witwe and the dialogue, and doing some warm ups to check my voice and to try to get it again into shape for this new season at the theater where I will be singing, Edgardo, Don Ottavio, Fenton and Camille. Plus I have to get my audition rep in order so that I can be ready for when they come.

These have been my longest holidays since I started working at the theater, around 7 years. So I really enjoyed them and because I was in Japan 2 weeks ago, I am sitll trying to process the whole trip, plus my mexican trip. So, how I wrote last week, I will keep digesting all those experiences in the coming weeks while settling again into my singer life.

The people I saw in Mexico was so important and special, as I am out of my singing bouble and really get into other areas of life and complitely other professions. What I mean is that talking to friends that do complitely different things, gives me always a fresh view and I love finding similarities and differences between theirs and mine. I also really, really enjoy speaking in my native language as I spend most of the year here in Germany speaking either English or German, and sometimes Italian ( we have italian colleagues at the theater) which I love practising.

The last few days my father visited me in Mexico City, he lives in Veracruz. My mother lets him stay with us while I visit, so I must thank her cause not any ex wife accepts the ex husband at home for a couple of nights. So thank you mum for being so supportive and having an incredibly good relationship to my father although you are not longer together. I am glad the three of us are still connected and in someways they are more connected than me to them, and I like that. Having time with them together is incredibly important to me and I treasure the little time we get together everytime I am there (so like once a year and sometimes once every two years).

Now since the last few hours I am back in Germany and I feel so weird, just thinking I was on the other side of the globe and, although I have done this trip several times in the last 15 years, it is still very strange how I feel every time I visit there and I come back, or you could say every time I go back home and I return to Europe. This time feels stranger cause in between I went to Japan, so even greater the feeling.

I hope you are well, take care and see you here, next week.