Exciting news from Arne
Dear friends,
I want to share some exciting news with you.
After working over 13 years mostly as an actor, I got a new job in Europe’s biggest and most beautiful Spa and Treatment Center near Cologne. The name is Mediterana. For the opening of a new Indian section at the end of August they are building a new team called ‘The Buddha team’ that I am part of. I will be responsible for reception desk, looking after guests, special happenings in the saunas and meditation.
I am also still working on stage; I am playing a very nice part in Pippi Longstocking in a beautiful outside area in the countryside. I auditioned a lot this year for theater jobs and got the most brilliant feedback ever since.
When the possibility of working in the spa showed up, I first hesitated to go to the interview because for working there you usually need in advance a certificate in life-saving, which includes among others 82 feet of diving. My brain told me that I would never be able to do that: staying under water to swim that distance. Then I saw that I told myself a lot of stories before that were not true – for example that I can’t ride a horse (something I did almost every morning in Costa Rica this year). Not to mention that I have to be on stage with Pippi’s horse “Little Old Man” this summer.
So I decided to not listen to that garbage, went to the interview and the most amazing thing happened: When I was there, they told me about the new Buddha-Team that they are going to create, and that they want me to work on that one. As opposed to the other teams, the Buddha team is not working at the swimming pools and I don’t need the life-saving certificate to get started. If necessary I can get trained for the certificate during work and I am looking forward to swim 82 feet under water one day.
After I came back from the interview (which, by the way, went very well and lasted more than an hour), I got a phone call and a theater in Kassel (155 miles away from Cologne) offered me two very interesting parts in a play and a musical show for four months.
The next day I got the offer to play a tour around the Christmas Season.
But I decided to go for the new experience in the Wellness Center. I am very excited, because the people there were so much a YES to me and I am having a new possibility in earning money and starting something new and totally different. I am sure, that this will support me in life and also my acting carreer that I am not giving up.
Thanks everybody and especially Ariel and Shya for for showing me that there are always so many more possibilities than I think.
I am looking forward to seeing a lot of you at the Art of Relating Workshop in September in Hamburg. When you know that this is something you want to do and are not signed up yet – do it! Come! Give yourself the gift!
Love,
Arne
