"Dear Spring, please come back..." That is the song that we have been warming up with in chorus lately. Still, from today on out, the days are all longer than the nights, which is a clear improvement.
This weekend we were in Poland for the first meeting with the other chorus that we will be working with. It was pretty crazy. The hotel was an old castle that had been renovated, and was trying way too hard to squeeze as many "old" things together as possible, and ended up just looking way over done and fake. At first glance, you had the impression that it was very nice, and the longer you looked, the worse it got. There was no free space on any wall. There was always some picture, hung in a giant ornate frame, on really loud wallpaper. If possible, with a little figure in front of it on a shelf. But half the time the lightbulbs were exposed, or didn't work. Still, we got a lot of singing done, and that was good.
Tomorrow I go back to school, and I think I have a fair amount of work ahead. Everything is centering around the fact that the 13th graders have to take their Abitur exams in a few weeks, which will determine if they can study and in what. So it is a big deal.
It is still cold, but it hasn't snowed for a while, and the snow is melting away noticably faster this time around. The other morning I saw three deer outside of my window. One lady in the choir says they have been visiting her too, and eating all her grape vines, which has been bothering her. I wrote down some really winning quotes from class the other day, and I will try and find the time to write them down this week.
Hope everything is going well for you all, and that you find the time to write! I would love to hear from you.
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