Blog 100, coffee, learning...

Wow, this week is my blog number 100, it may not mean anything to you and that is right, but for me, I did not think I would manage to be consistant for 100 consecutive weeks of writing. I am not over the top, 100 is just a number but I am proud I managed to write without pause. When I started this blog my intention was only to keep some sort of notes on some of the stuff I am going through personally and professionally. So, to you who have been reading now and then my blog, I thank you for taking any interest at all.

This week has been a nice week, we celebrated the Mexican Independence Day on Friday, at my uncle's house and his family and some friends. I also managed to meet some friends and go around Mexico City, trying new coffee places mostly at Condesa, Coyoacan and Roma. These are very nice parts of this huge city. I am also working on my text and music of Die Lustige Witwe, an operetta which is the first project for me at the Theater in Wuerzburg (Germany) this season. It is nice to learn a role here in Mexico, I can not remember when was the last time I was learning here a role, so I am enjoying the process while having delicious coffees in the city I am from, which once I called home.

While walking the streets of this city and reflecting on my current trip here, and the last weeks when I was in Japan, I can say that I have done a lot and experience a lot, and processing all slowly, and I am counting the days until I can return once more to Japan. I guess during the coming weeks I will keep digesting all the experiences and places I visited and foods that I ate and people I met. To have seen my family, friends here and in Japan has been so refreshing as I miss them during the year while working in Germany. I am glad this summer I have taken a longer holiday so that I can spend time with the people I care.

This week in other news for the first time I took my mum to the single IKEA there is in Mexico City. I knew she would love it and I was not wrong. It is like a Disneyland for her and I felt a bit at home. I say home because in Germany we have IKEA and it is very nostalgic somehow to have visited the one here in Mexico, and because through the years I have been in IKEA as it is where I get lots of furnitures for the differetn flats I have lived in, through the different cities I have lived in Germany. Also because it is the only one here, it was packed with thousands of people, as you may know Mexico CIty is one of the biggest cities on the planet, so I guess one IKEA is just not big enough for over 20 million people. I am sure they will keep expanding.

I hope you are well and see you next week. Take care.