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About last weekend

⚠️ Warning: This going to be a long one

Cold. It was first and foremost very cold. 

But very, very pretty, because it snowed (and I’m proud to say that I did not slip on the ice that covered the side walks. I did expect to go home covered in bruises.)

besides that, the travel to Munich was… chaotic to say the least. Most trains did not arrive (or leave) on time, that is, if they showed up at all. And even then… my train from Frankfurt did show up, but we were only allowed onto half of the train. Obviously this meant that there wasn’t enough space for everyone and the train was then cancelled. Sooo, I had to take the next one, which was late and very, very crowded, but at least had heating, which is all I wished for at that point because I had been standing in the cold for about 3 hours. By the time I was warm again, I had to get off the train to take a different one that would actually take me to Munich. On said train I encountered several people who reminded me, that I could be very grateful that while I might be cold, at least I was on the right train. One guy had started his day in Tel Aviv, where his flight was delayed, and he missed his train in Germany. Another one had wanted to go to Mönchengladbach but somehow only realized he was on the wrong train shortly before we reached Nürnberg. And the third was a kid that took the wrong train after school and somehow ended up in Bavaria instead of North Rhine-Westphalia, where he lives. It was wild.  2/10

Somehow, I still made it to Munich in time to go to the theatre and watch a performance of Dickens’ Christmas Carol at the Amerikahaus. It was amazing. Very funny and entertaining, while also being heartbreaking at times. 10/10. 

Cue to us, (@str4wanzerin) and me, walking back to her place to meet up with @eolewyn1010 to grab something to eat. Very tasty 9/10

Saturday started off great! We went vinyl shopping. Or I shopped for vinyls and my friends accompanied me (thanks for all the patience, while I was looking at… everything). I ended up with one vinyl I had been looking for, and one that I did not expect to buy, but was played in the shop and my brain told me: This one. I want this one. (Amazing decision, I had a nice chat with the owner of the shop and have been listening to it on repeat the past few days) 12/10

Next, we visited the Christmas market (very pretty) and got some crêpes (very tasty) 9/10

Finally, we wound up at the Prinzregententheater, where we met @carlomenzinger and of course watched our amazing boys, Udo and Miro, perform “A Christmas Carol”. Which… mind blown. Miro definitely surprised me with how well he read and performed his part (who knew he could still dance and jump like that? Also, he was very cute overall), and Udo managed to exceed my already high expectations. Him reading Jacob Marley very nearly gave me a heart attack (how deep can he make his voice sound??), while I’m pretty sure that his performance of Scrooge's little sister gave me some type of diabetes.  1000/10

Had some nice food again and talked all kinds of crazy fandom stuff 10/10

Stood in the cold for a bit, but met Miro, who despite having a cab waiting for him and being tired from performing, signed all of our stuff and was so, so nice. He’s just as sweet in person, as he seems to be in interviews. Did not meet Udo, but there will be other opportunities, I’m sure. 100/10

On Sunday, @str4wanzerin and I had a nice walk in the snow, looked at some architecture and went to another Christmas market (which lead to a new fanfic idea being born) before I headed home. Miraculously, everything went fine on my way back. No delays, no nothing.

Oh, and my collection of things expanded a bit (thanks for the cup, the autographs, and the vinyls!). Behold my Tatort shrine:

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“This might as well just read Mayor still dead, sucks to be a Hellhound,” Rhine said, chest pressed over the edge of the tub where wet fingers dusted soap and over the newspaper. The hold his attention had threatened to smudge the words as ink began to swell under the water seeping from his grasp. It almost served as a warning to avert his eyes, limit his fixation. Rhine never cared for the affairs of the town since he’d found his way because he’d been focused on what he had lost. Ever since he found it, though, he hadn’t had much to do and found himself refusing to go home and hiding in the ranks of the reapers in order to throw off any attempts at dragging him back where he had come from. 

He turned to Marley, the contents of the tub threatening to spill over at his motions. Rhine was always caught between moving too fast, or moving too slow. He either sat in a lull, or he was bursting at the seams. 

“What do you think? You have some friends over there, right?”

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Club Dance Studio

The Dance Awards, Las Vegas 2017: RESULTS

High Scores by Age:

PeeWee Solo

5th: Ellie Smith-’Amazing Grace’

6th (tie): Madyson Barney-’When You Wish Upon A Star’

Didn’t Place

Brinklee Grako-’Wonderful World’

Sydney Kelly-’The Blessing’

Mini Solo

1st: Alexis Adair-’Strands’

3rd (tie): Brightyn Rhines-’Petrichor’

4th: Brooklin Cooley-’Solitude’

7th: Paige Kracht-’Daylight’

Didn’t Place

Kanon Greer-’Roxy’

Vanessa Valenzuela-’Heart Cry’

Isabella Lynch-’Blue Birds’

Bella Fernandez-’Stargazing’

Kenzie Charboneau-’Cinema Italiano’

Addison Jones-’Ooh Ooh Child’

Rachel Loiselle-’Only The Winds’

Bella Sor-’Every Season’

Brynlee Schabron-’Beautiful Like Me’

Hailey Baer-’Go Crazy’

Riley Knab-’Move’

Delaney Taylor-’Burnin Up’

Posey Harris-’Lipstick’

Mckenzie Robinson-’Holding On’

Sayler Conover-’Rich and Famous’

Chloe Slone-’Nuvole’

Grace McKinley-’Hold Up’

Jonah Benyamin-’Grey’

Kyla Robinson-’Won’t Ya Come’

Olivia Benyamin-’Trust’

Arie Russell-’One Woman Army’

Brooklyn Jones-’Wind It Up’

Junior Solo

5th: Audrey Caldwell-’Beach’

8th: Kaya Walsh-’Without’

9th: Samantha McGowan-’Slither’

10th: Summer O’Haver-’Darkness’

Didn’t Place

Kylie Propps-’Evil Like Me’

Paetyn Kuntz-’Pacing’

Marianna Hedger-’Crossed Paths’

Makenna Taylor-’Hyperballad’

Breanna Ng-’Lose It’

Kayla Walsh-’Without’

Milla Fabirkiewicz-’To My Soul’

Daylyn Lucky-’Peace’

Marlee Grako-’Trophy’

Elle McAuley-’Perception’

Landrie Peterson-’Solitude’

Teen Solo

5th: Jasmine Robinson-’Surrender’

7th (tie): Kendall Wheeler-’The Storm Within’

9th (tie): Jazlyn Robinson-’Transformations’

9th (tie): Jenna Valenzuela-’Yearning’

Didn’t Place

Chloe Davis-’Another Life’

Taryn Bee-’Much Closer’

Aspen Lynch-’Oasis’

Jenn Gamma-’Distant Lights’

Claire Glessner-’On Reflection’

Tatiana Savedra-’Funny Valentine’

Taylor Knab-’One Way Or Another’

Jaelah Stanley-’Keep An Eye On Me’

Sidney Hopkins-’Runnin’

Marley Gorman-’Question’

Sophia Benyamin-’Love For That’

Laynee Hahn-’Time Passing’

Hailey Jimenez-’Breathe In’

Kamilla Johnson-’Dawn’

McKenna Dickson-’Tremors’

Senior Solo

1st: Simrin Player-’Tiger’s Bride’

10th: Isabella Boyer-’Spine’

Mini Duo/Trio

1st (tie): Alexis Adair, Brightyn Rines, Brooklin Cooley-’Stable’

PeeWee Group

2nd ($100): ‘Silent Night’

Mini Group

4th: ‘Til’ Morrow’

5th (tie): ‘Don’t Worry About Me’

Didn’t Place

‘Grown Woman’

‘Hair’

‘Isn’t She Lovely’

‘Viva La Swing’

Junior Group

5th: ‘Le Corsaire’

Didn’t Place

‘In Love With A Monster’

‘Sky Full of Stars’

‘Sleep’

‘Superego’

‘The Wait’

Teen Group

4th (tie): ‘Concentrate’

Didn’t Place

‘Cage Of Bones’

‘Heart of Stones’

Senior Group

1st: ‘Settle In’

Didn’t Place

‘Foolish Games’

PeeWee Line

2nd ($100): ‘Lullaby’

Mini Line

4th: ‘Wanting’

5th (tie): ‘No More Fear’

5th (tie): ‘We Run This’

Didn’t Place

‘In Person’

Junior Line

1st: ‘Awakening’

5th (tie): ‘Strings’

Didn’t Place

‘Chicago, Illinois’

‘Do You Love Me?’

Teen Line

3rd (tie): ‘The Self House’

Didn’t Place

‘Esmerelda’

‘Give Us A Little Love’

‘Goons Out’

‘Pick Up the Pace’

‘Viva La Vida’

PeeWee Extended Line

3rd ($50): ‘Hard Knock Life’

Mini Extended Line

1st ($200): ‘We So Meek’

Didn’t Place

‘Ease on Down The Road’

‘I’ll Fly Away’

‘Sing Like The Birdies’

Junior Extended Line

1st: ‘Vibeology’

3rd (tie): ‘Sit Down, You’re Rocking The Boat’

Didn’t Place

‘Afterglow’

‘Did I Mention’

‘Good Morning Baltimore’

‘When I Grow Up’

Teen Extended Line

Didn’t Place

‘3 Strikes’

‘Do You Remember?’

‘Flashing Lights’

‘Holy Water’

‘Let It All Go’

‘Mine’

‘Money’

‘Ooh, Kill Em’

‘Opposites Attract’

‘Red Arrow’

‘Sexyback’

PeeWee Production

1st ($200): ‘Cookin’ With Grease’

Junior Production

1st: ‘No Mercy’

Teen Production

2nd: ‘Bang’

High Scores by Performance Division:

PeeWee Jazz

1st ($200): ‘Cookin’ With Grease’

PeeWee Musical Theater

1st: ‘Hard Knock Life’

PeeWee Lyrical

1st: ‘Silent Night’

2nd: ‘Lullaby’

Mini Lyrical

1st (tie): ‘Don’t Worry About Me’

2nd: ‘Isn’t She Lovely’

4th: ‘I’ll Fly Away

Mini Musical Theatre

3rd: ‘Sing Like The Birdies’

5th: ‘Ease on Down The Road’

Mini Jazz

4th: ‘We Run This’

5th: ‘Hair’

Didn’t Place

‘Grown Woman’

‘In Person’

‘Viva La Swing’

Mini Contemporary

4th: ‘Til’ Morrow’

5th (tie): ‘Wanting’

Didn’t Place

‘No More Fear’

Mini Hip-Hop

1st: ‘We So Meek’

Junior Lyrical

1st: ‘Afterglow’

5th: ‘Sky Full of Stars’

Junior Musical Theatre

1st: ‘Sit Down, You’re Rocking The Boat’

Didn’t Place

‘Chicago, Illinois’

‘Good Morning Baltimore’

Junior Specialty

1st (tie): ‘Superego’

2nd: ‘Did I Mention’

Junior Contemporary

1st: ‘Awakening’

5th (3-way tie): ‘Strings’

Didn’t Place

‘Do You Love Me?’

‘Sleep’

‘The Wait’

Junior Jazz

1st: ‘Vibeology’

Didn’t Place

‘In Love With A Monster’

‘When I Grow Up’

Junior Ballet

1st: ‘Le Corsaire’

Junior Hip-Hop

1st: ‘No Mercy’

Teen Contemporary

4th: ‘The Self House’

Didn’t Place

‘3 Strikes’

‘Cage of Bones’

‘Concentrate’

‘Flashing Lights’

‘Holy Water’

‘Red Arrow’

Teen Hip-Hop

2nd (tie): ‘Bang’

3rd (tie): ‘Ooh, Kill Em’

5th: ‘Goons Out’

Teen Lyrical

Didn’t Place

‘Do You Remember?’

‘Give Us A Little Love’

‘Heart of Stone’

‘Let It All Go’

‘Mine’

‘Viva la Vida’

Teen Ballet

1st: ‘Esmerelda’

Teen Jazz

5th: ‘Opposites Attract’

Didn’t Place

‘Money’

Teen Specialty

2nd: ‘Pick Up The Pace’

3rd (tie): ‘Sexyback’

Senior Lyrical

3rd: ‘Foolish Games’

Senior Contemporary

2nd (tie): ‘Settle In’

Specialty Awards:

Mini Outstanding Technical Achievement

‘No More Fear’

Junior Outstanding Technical Achievement

‘Awakening’

Teen Outstanding Technical Achievement

‘The Self House’

Senior Outstanding Technical Achievement

‘Settle In’

Best Production Performance

‘No Mercy’

Best Jazz Performance

‘Vibeology’

Best Ballet Performance

‘Esmerelda’

‘Le Corsaire’

Best Hip-Hop Performance

‘No Mercy’

‘We So Meek’

Best Contemporary Performance

‘Awakening’

Best Musical Theatre Performance

‘Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat’

Best Specialty Performance

‘Superego’

Best Lyrical Performance

‘Don’t Worry About Me’

‘Afterglow’

Best Performance:

Mini

1st runner-up: ‘We So Meek’

Junior

2nd runner-up: ‘Awakening’

Teen

5th runner-up: ‘The Self House’

Senior

3rd runner-up: ‘Settle In’

Best Dancer:

Mini Female

2nd runner-up: Brooklin Cooley ($100)

Top 22: Vanessa Valenzuela

Didn’t Place

Olivia Bell

Olivia Benyamin

Kenzie Charboneau

Kanon Greer

Addison Jones

Brooklyn Jones

Paige Kracht

Rachel Loiselle

Isabella Lynch

Grace Mckinley

Kyla Robinson

Arie Russell

Chloe Slone

Bella Sor

Delaney Taylor

Mini Male

Winner: JT Church ($350)

Top 13: Jonah Benyamin

Junior Female

Top 21: Audrey Caldwell

Top 21: Milla Fabirkiewicz

Top 21: Marley Heath

Top 21: Samantha McGowan

Junior Male

Top 12: Isaiah Wilson

Didn’t Place

Paetyn Kuntz

Bailey LaMagdelaine

Madison Levato-Demar

Elle McAuley

Breanne Ng

Summer O’Haver

Landrie Peterson

Taylor Ponsness

Kylie Propps

Makenna Taylor

Kayla Walsh

Teen Female

Didn’t Place

Sophia Benyamin

McKenna Dickson

Jenn Gamma

Marley Gorman

Chevelle Heller

Hailey Jimenez

Kamilla Johnson

Jasmine Robinson

Jazlyn Robinson

Tatiana Savedra

Carlee Schield

Jenna Valenzuela

Mia Wilson

Lizzy Zaritsky

Teen Male

Top 22: Sky Bleeker

Senior Female

Winner: Simrin Player ($1000)

Didn’t Place

Isabella Boyer

Senior Male

Top 20: Brandt Czerniski

Studio of the Year:

Winner: Club Dance Studio

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Leon Bailey: 10 things on Bayer Leverkusen’s Jamaica-born flying winger

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Leon Bailey: 10 things on Bayer Leverkusen’s Jamaica-born flying winger

Leon Bailey’s stunning performances with Bayer Leverkusen have put him and Jamaica on the global football map in the same way his friend, Usain Bolt, took the island to the top of athletics. He is also good mates with Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling, but don’t mention Bailey to Bundesliga defenders…

bundesliga.com looks at the scenic and colourful life journey that took the Kingston-born boy from the shores of the Caribbean to the banks of the Rhine through ten facts about one of the Bundesliga’s hottest properties.

1) The new Arjen Robben?

Left-footed, frighteningly quick, bedazzling with the ball at his feet, and a liking for cutting in from the wing to devastating effect. Sound familiar? Bayern Munich fans will see Arjen Robben in that description.

Leverkusen supporters — and soon maybe many more German football watchers — will have images of Bailey hurtling at breakneck speed through their minds. The Jamaican has marked himself out as ‘one to watch’ in his first full Bundesliga season, outdoing his Bayern counterpart in output and upstaging him in terms of the spectacular.

Robben has already written his name into Bundesliga legend, and Bailey has all the tools to join him in the pantheon of greats.

2) International man of mystery

Which lucky country will get the thumbs up from Bailey to play for them at international level? © imago

For all his brilliance with Bayer, Bailey has yet to play at senior international level, and his sizzling form has sparked a race between nations to be the first to convince him he should pull on their shirt.

With the World Cup approaching and England reportedly exploring the possibility he could be eligible to play for them in Russia, Bailey is keeping his options open. “It’s been like that for years, but my opinion hasn’t changed and people have to accept that. Which country I play for is still open.”

There is – of course – still a good chance he will join the Reggae Boyz of Jamaica. “The Jamaican FA has wanted me to play for them since I was 11 or 12,” Bailey explained. The Leverkusen man has already represented the Caribbean island at Under-23 level, scoring a free-kick against the Cayman Islands in March 2015.

3) Tidy player, Messi man

Exceptional and devastating with the ball at his feet like his boyhood idol Lionel Messi, Bailey’s scorching pace is eerily similar to that of his namesake, Donovan, Canada’s Jamaican-born former 100m world record holder and Olympic champion sprinter.

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Bailey, though, has an even faster friend: Usain Bolt. “I’ve never run with him,” Bailey said of his fellow Jamaican who currently owns the 100m world record. “I never want to run with him!” Many Bundesliga defenders feel the same about you, Leon.

4) The reggae boyz

Jamaica is better known for its athletes like Bolt, its musicians like Bob Marley and its cricketers such as Michael ‘Whispering Death’ Holding, but it has also produced its fair share of quality footballers.

England internationals John Barnes and Sterling were both born there, while though born in England, Leicester City’s English Premier League-winning captain, Wes Morgan, has Jamaican blood in his veins as have a number of illustrious players who have mostly featured for England at international level.

  Deven haffi seh a thousand words… bless up on your strong bro, more life & more success, we doing it big for the rest of the year & into the new year! :tada::gift::heart: @sterling7

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Born in Germany, Karlsruhe’s Daniel Gordon played eight Bundesliga games for Borussia Dortmund between 2006 and 2009, while his fellow Jamaica international, English-born Michael Hector, scored once in 22 top-flight appearances in Germany with Eintracht Frankfurt during the 2016/17 season.

5) The Butler did it!

Born 9 August, 1997, in Kingston, Jamaica, Bailey shares a birthday with coaching greats Otto Rehhagel, Mario Zagallo and Roy Hodgson. Perhaps Bailey will shine in the dug-out in the future, but it is with another Leo born on the same date, Chelsea star Willian, he shares the most attributes for now.

One of 20 youngsters adopted by Craig Butler, Bailey’s talent quickly became apparent at his dad’s Phoenix All-Star Academy. Butler, Bailey, and another of Butler’s sons, Kyle, all went to Europe with the boys barely in their teens to pursue the dream of kicking a ball for a living.

“We came to Europe with one jacket, no experience of winter,” described Bailey, who was just 12 when the trio arrived in Austria. “We didn’t have so much money, so sometimes we just had tuna on bread for breakfast, lunch and dinner just to get through the day.”

6) First stop: Slovakia!

Bailey entered the youth ranks of Austrian team Liefering, a club with close ties to Red Bull Salzburg, in 2011, and after attempts to broker deals with Genk in Belgium and Ajax in the Netherlands fell through due to Bailey’s age — FIFA rules forbid clubs to sign non-EU players under 18 — he eventually joined Slovak outfit Trencin in autumn 2014. “I like Trencin because they push you, because they know what you’re capable of. I know in a few years, I’m going to be a really good player,” a 17-year-old Bailey said shortly after joining Trencin, who also signed Kyle Butler at the same time.

Bailey’s talent means he has stood out from the crowd since his days with Trencin in Slovakia. © DFL DEUTSCHE FUSSBALL LIGA

Bailey was unable to make a contribution on the pitch as Trencin won the Slovak title that season, but he did make an impression on the training ground of the club where former Liverpool defender Martin Skrtel started his professional career.

“He has the advantage of being a versatile player, and in just a few days he has convinced me that he will benefit our team,” said then-Trencin boss Martin Sevela of Bailey. “If he left, we would certainly miss him.”

7) Chip off the old block

“My dad said, you look like Alvin and the Chipmunks so everyone called me ‘Alvin’, then ‘Chipmunk’, then just ‘Chippy’,” Bailey told Deutsche Welle when asked about the origins of his nickname. “When someone calls me that they’ve been close to me all my life, and know a lot about me.”

8) Going, going, Genk

[Bailey excelled at Genk, following in the footsteps of Kevin De Bruyne. © gettyimages / Kristof van Accom]

Genk had clearly not forgotten Bailey. The club where Kevin De Bruyne took his first steps in the professional game know talent when they see it, and snapped up Bailey when he turned 18 in summer 2015.

Just 12 short days after blowing out the candles on his birthday cake, he made his first-team debut at the start of a season that would lead to him being named Belgium’s Young Player of the Year, an award previously scooped by the likes of Vincent Kompany, Axel Witsel and Youri Tielemans.

“What I do is learn from others, and make myself better,” Bailey said when picking up his prize. “A wise man learns from his mistakes, but a wiser man learns from the mistakes of others.”

9) School of hard knocks

As keen a student of the game as Bailey has proven, the basic, natural talent he possesses can be traced back to his origins, the Leverkusen man himself believes. “We eat a lot of food from the ground, that makes us strong and fast,” Bailey explained.

Allied to the gifts Mother Nature gave him, testing his skills in the rough and tumble of street football in Kingston’s Cassava Piece neighbourhood made his switch to Europe so much easier.

Bailey has been a huge hit in his first full season in the Bundesliga with Bayer Leverkusen. © DFL DEUTSCHE FUSSBALL LIGA

“When I look back it wasn’t easy, it was difficult times. I experienced a lot of things there that made me stronger in life,” he explained. “They didn’t stop me playing with the bigger guys, because they could see I could handle it.”

10) Bigger, better, Bayer

Those who nurtured Bailey’s young talents were not the only ones. While Bailey was at Trencin, one of the Slovak club’s directors, Igor Schlesinger, had said, “I don’t know what he’s worth now, but in the future, it will definitely be some millions.” The exact answer would — for now — be €20 million, the widely reported fee Leverkusen paid Genk for the Jamaican wunderkind in January 2017.

“He’s got extraordinary pace, he’s very skilful with the ball, and he will give further impetus to our attacking department,” said Leverkusen sporting director Rudi Völler, a former World Cup winner who should know a good player when he sees one. “We are convinced that he will be a big gain for us.” No-one will be arguing with you, Rudi, after seeing his performance against Hoffenheim.

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