Travels DAH on 11 Aug 2005 08:13 am
phone calls and pitfalls
Now that I have gotten your attention with that heading, I better start explaining. First with the phone calls. So far we have had two very interesting phone calls made by members of our choir, the first was by David Sauder, and then he shared his success story with the choir and convinced Heidi and Holli to give it a shot as well. The interesting part of the whole ordeal came the next day as we were checking out of the hotel from where they both made their calls. They were both confronted with bills ranging from 40 to 70 us dollars, depending on the length of their calls and whether they got ripped off when exchanging money to cover the bill. I know David Sauder found the price worthwhile in being able to talk to his wife, but i am not sure how Heidi and Holli feel about the cost of their call 
The castle we visited yesterday wasn’t really a castle at all, more of a mansion by my reconing, but we had a fairly successful concert there, we were the second half of the program that was being done by the crescendo institute. It was reasurring to get praise back from an audience that was mostly comprised of musicians, many of whom had perfect pitch. It has been interesting to see how much of a response we get back from the few spirituals in our repetoire, as someone from our choir mentioned, “spirituals are like rock and roll to them, it doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, everyone still loves it”. I think Kristofer said that…
And now to explain the pitfalls. I that had something to do with playing lots of rook yesterday. I enjoy being with several people on this trip that enjoy the game of rook, I have been trying to find people to play with for a long time. We had a very interesting time late last night playing, and I think by the time we decided to end, almost everyone had negative scores 
. We also had some fun teaching scum and mafia to a few new people during our bus trip from the boat to the castle yesterday, Thankfully Rosemary knew german, so she was able to translate and teach the games to the non-english speaking people we were playing with. All in all it was a great day.
