KSWE

I've been going to school at Kanti Wettingen for about four years now, with one gap-year in England, and now the time has come to say goodbye to this beautiful school and all the lovely people there because in a few days I will have finished all my exams and I'll probably only go there again to jam at some workshops.

I will miss this gorgeous monastery, with the beautiful walls and all the pretty furniture, but I am also fairly happy to start something new and continue on with the stuff that I actually like doing (sorry maths, you were fun and all but.. farewell).

Here are some photos I took last week, just to remember :)

So one might ask, what's gonna come up next for me? Next year I will be doing civil-service at a local school, helping some students and teachers with their tasks, and after that, who knows, maybe something with music, or art, or both! Music production? We'll see ;)

treff.punkt

Every Friday we have a meetup at our school with some immigrants to play sports with them. The last couple of weeks I, unfortunately, did not have that much time to go there, but last Friday I went again. Not only to play volleyball with them but also to take pictures for our school paper which will be published soon, to maybe get the attention of more people to join the meetups.

Klangschaften

Yesterday evening I had my matura-presentation. The Matura-Project is the final project you do as a high school student and which counts like any other mark in your degree paper.

In the past weeks, I've worked quite hard on these two "Klangschaften". The word can be translated to "soundscapes", but that is already a thing. Klang means sound and the term "Klangschaft" should make an association with the word "Landschaft" which means landscape. The project itself is also restricted to two landscapes, one is my school which I attend at the moment "Kantonsschule Wettingen", and the other one is based on  Baden, the town I live in.

All the sounds, without any exception, are recorded at these two locations, then edited in the Music-DAW Ableton Live 9.

You can watch both of the projects in This YouTube Playlist.

And feel free to share them with others who might be interested in such projects.

Kurze Stille in der Halle

"Short Silence in the Hall" was the name of the piece which our school theatre performed last week. I even went twice to watch it because it was that good! The second time I also took lots of pictures ;)

The whole piece was about rituals all around the world. The ones of our everyday lives compared to those in other cultures, countries and religions. We've learned a lot of facts that evening from marriages until deaths, but they also told and played many real short stories about everyday situations. Sometimes funny and sometimes really tragic!

But altogether it was an awesome performance with a lot of laughter and brilliant acting!

After the event, there was a party all night, because it was the last performance. And it was so much fun!

Dronin' around school!

I was asked by the school if I could take some more drone pictures. Of course I'd do that :)

So this wednesday on my free afternoon I took some pictures after I visited my friends from my internship at the university in Zürich which was really nice too!

I also took some cool pictures of the cool clouds today, it looked so cool! The immense contrast between those clouds and the bright, enlighted landscape was so lovely!

We also had a lovely barbecue with some friends one evening where we talked a lot, ate grilled marshmellows and had a really good time :D

In the early winter morning

Sometimes you need to wake up early, even on your holidays, to get some nice pictures! This is what me and four friends did on Tuesday. We started our little hike up our home mountain, the Lägern, at 6:30 AM to arrive at the top before sunrise. And it was gorgeous!! Totally worth it :)

I got myself a camera drone last week (I took the picture above with it). I went flying a lot! I also took some pictures of my school covered in snow :)

On Monday I went lightpainting again at our school. The pictures turned out very cool again :D

An amazing concert at my school and a new piano!

This Friday two very cool things happened. First of all I finally made an arrangement with a transport company to pick up the piano, which my grandparents wanted to give to me (since nobody used it at their house), and bring it to my place. Now I've set it up with two microphones so that I can put on some effects too. It's so nice to finally have a real piano at home!

On Friday evening I also went to a concert by W:KK, a group that arranges concerts in Wettingen every year. There was a famous viola da gamba player who performed some classical pieces which was lovely and a guy playing the bandoneon who was amazing!
They both played really nice and it was a joyful evening :)

Summernight-Party

I talk a lot about the good things at my school, and I think I'll never stop, because last Friday we had the annual huge summernight party in the park. It's a huge event with over 4500 tickets sold! The 2-4 grades need to do either a food-booth, one for drinks which the 4th years usually make, or a cultural booth.
Since the topic was "Swiss made" this year we decided to do a shooting range kind of like Wilhelm Tell where you had to shoot apples down from politician's heads.. It was a lot of fun!

I also played a concert with my friends from the music workshop and it was amazing! So many people came to listen and danced all the time, clapped their hands and had a lot of fun!

Circus and Technorama

You know that feeling when you go to a place you haven't been since you were a little child? Well that happened to me when I went with my mum and grandparents to the circus last weekend. It was amazingly cool and I loved the performance and the music played by a live band. But it was odd too because I had a way bigger circus in my memory from when I was a child. Now everything seemed much smaller but also I understood it better :)

On Wednesday we had a Natural Sciences day. We were able to choose between different things we wanted to do. I chose to go to the Technorama in Winterthur. First we visited a Highschool for Sciences and had a presentation, later on we went to this gigantic building full of stuff. Literally, you can nearly find everything there that is somehow linked to science. Just take a peek at the pictures and videos ;)