Travels DAH on 09 Aug 2005 09:25 am
Sarospatak, Hungary
After finding each place we went to be more comfortable than the last, it is a bit of a shock to find ourselves in old dorm rooms, lacking toilet paper and many other ‘modern’ conveniences. We are now part of the Crescendo institute, having meals with the other students here on a college campus, and being part of the classes in the morning, then having our own concerts in towns in the evening.
The mornings are pretty cool, we only had one practice so far, but it was fun to see how the various conducting students varied in their technique and ability to convey their thinking. For those that don’t know, we are the test choir for the conducting class, so for two hours every morning we sing parts of the Requiem over and over again as the student conductors have their way with us.
Wednesday is going to be a free day for us, in keeping with the European culture or something like that. There are some planned trips with Crescendo, one involves a boat trip to a nearby town with a castle, and the other one is for sightseeing here in sarospatak (heres a website of this town, i doubt you could read it, but there is a logo for Crescendo on the top right of the page, http://www.sarospatak.hu) I am a little iffy on the exact details of what we are doing weds, since I don’t think they have room for the entire choir to go along on the boat trip, but I would be happy to tour Sarospatak as long as I can still see a castle somewhere 
Time for me to go, There are several others waiting to use the library here, since it is the only internet access we have found so far, and has limited hours. It is hard to believe that we are in our last week, but we still have many new things to see and do before we return to the states.
on 10 Aug 2005 at 8:42 am 1.cindi nussbaum said …
For Holli Nussbaum
Hi I hope this gets to you. I want to let you know that I\’m praying and thinking of you very often. I enjoy reading David Hess\’s web site and Mom sent them to me when I don\’t get a chance to go to the cafe. I have had a busy busy but noce couple of weeks and the last week I have been e-mailing home evey day yesterday was the first day that I didn\’t get a reply. But that is ok. I cant\’ wait to hear from ;you what all you have experienced. From the discription that David gave of where you are right now sounds a lot like here. Emmanuel and ROse moved in the week yo uleft and it seems to be woking out really well they are really helping out with the children and doing athings with them, it is really nice. It is starting to get warmer here but I think it is because the sun is finally starting to shine through and shead some heat. WE have been taking the children on walks and the like and we are starting to walk from town. Mom told me of your phone call whats up with calling at 2am I have more sence than that. ?
I have to give you a hard time about it. But it sounded really cool what she told you. Well I have other things I need to get done in this hour. If you ahve time to just brose cheak my website at http://www.xanga.com user name nussbaum and the password is all the first letter of our names. Let me know if that works.
Love you Paapaa can\’t wait to hear.
Nini