Belly dancing - last year a friend of mine came up with the idea, I then had a fairly traumatising semester with a pretty awful teacher ('And now... improvise!'), but we've switched this semester, stared all over again and I'm really kind of enjoying it. Not a natural talent by a long, long way, but I think i might be finally getting the hang of it...


I discovered TM relatively late - early 30ies - and Buddenbrooks was the first novel I read, and it absolutely stunned me. Doktor Faustus has replaced it as a favourite novel of his since, but I still adore it.