Mathilde Apelt Schmidt's Blog, page 2

Our son just made the top of Everest!

On May 19, 2012 @14:o4, Marty Schmidt, International Mountain Guide summitted Mt. Everest with two clients. He is one of the certified Guides of the “Peak Freaks Team”, created by Tim and Becky Rippel from Canada.

Our show, Hansel&Gretel

On December 16 our German Class performed a show which was filmed by my son-in-law, Charlie Michaels and put on You Tube. Now everybody can watch our show that took some energy and and colaboration of the actors. Not everyone in my class wanted me to do this. After all, they came to the German class to learn German, not to put up a play. I had full understanding for this and had the three rehearsals that were necessar done on a different day than our classtime. The class is on Thursdays, and we rehearsed on Fridays. In fact, the show took place on Friday, Dec. 16. It so happened that my daughter, Doris Michaels and her husband Charlie arrived in Castro Valley from their home in  New York on the way to their mountain cabin in Bear Valley. They attended the show and Charlie shot this great video. Now all my visitors can see and enjoy it.

I don't quite know what will happen next. I am continuing with my German classes, two private German students, Rotary, a few clubs, book groups, and cleaning two dentist's floors (for the money), tending house and garden and trying to be a good wife to my husband who has to put up with all of that. My family is great, they are in and out. Marty, my mountain guiding son, will attack Everest again in March. My niece from South America, Regula Rohland, will visit us in March, too. Marty will show one of his videos at the Castro Valley Sunrise meeting on March 23, a day before he leaves for Everest. An interesting life. I haven't mentioned yet that my grandson, Jason Cruz, is stationed for one year at an airforce base in Korea and will take his family to Germany for the following three years when he is serving at a base close to Heidelberg. For this year Jason's wife, Gennie and his two children, Brianna (3) and Justin (1 1/2) are living with my daughterBarbara and Randy Cruz in Windsor, CA. Barbara, who works for INFO as senior programmer, is my main editor. She and Doris support me all the way with my writing.

The year 2011

this year has been very successful for me. I have finished my 5th book "My Father, Hermann Apelt". My daughter gave me a roaring birthday party for my 90th in New York and invited over 45 relatives from Germany, America, New Zealand, France,k Argentina, and Canada. That was back in april. zmy German Class gave me much pleasure, there were 18 students last quarter. We put up a play which was staged on December 16 which can be seen at the link "Hansel&Gretel ddirected by Mathilde Schmidt, You Tube". It takes less than 1/2 hour to watch. We had a wonderful holiday at our mountain cabin. Happy New Year to all of you. Mathilde

Fall of 2011. I am trying to write another book, but it doesn’t flow yet. My two German classes are doing very well. This fall quarter I have 16 students signed up, all eager to better or learn their German. Some of them have been in Germany this summer. I

Fall of 2011. I am trying to write another book, but it doesn’t flow yet. My two German classes are doing very well. This fall quarter I have 16 students signed up, all eager to better or learn their German. Some of them have been in Germany this summer. I

Fall of 2011. I am trying to write another book, but it doesn’t flow yet. My two German classes are doing very well. This fall quarter I have 16 students signed up, all eager to better or learn their German. Some of them have been in Germany this summer. I

Fall of 2011. I am trying to write another book, but it doesn’t flow yet. My two German classes are doing very well. This fall quarter I have 16 students signed up, all eager to better or learn their German. Some of them have been in Germany this summer. I

Fall of 2011. I am trying to write another book, but it doesn’t flow yet. My two German classes are doing very well. This fall quarter I have 16 students signed up, all eager to better or learn their German. Some of them have been in Germany this summer. I

Fall of 2011. I am trying to write another book, but it doesn’t flow yet. My two German classes are doing very well. This fall quarter I have 16 students signed up, all eager to better or learn their German. Some of them have been in Germany this summer. I

Fall of 2011. I am trying to write another book, but it doesn’t flow yet. My two German classes are doing very well. This fall quarter I have 16 students signed up, all eager to better or learn their German. Some of them have been in Germany this summer. I