Hi! This is my first post so I would like to welcome everyone to my weblog. I am leaving in two weeks and four days. June 10th I fly to Vienna via Toronto and London. I just found out that Jim Schindler is coming for his third year in a row! Jim is my old Wagnerian pal from Woodinville High School where he runs the opera club. He is also co-teaching a class at SPU when we get back, covering Der Rosenkavalier at Seattle Opera the first week of August.