A photo from our concert. Photo props to Morgana, a teen from the church who came to watch our concert.
I had the chance to talk with some of the women living in the home, and learned that the population there is about 40% former nuns! I always wondered where nuns go when they retire! I imagine that they never really retire according to the usual definition of the word: stopping doing what they're doing, because their job is praying, serving and praising the Lord (professionally), which a Christian should keep doing, right up until they kick the bucket.*
On Friday, we had our big annual Easter concert at our church, la Chapelle du Fuveau, which was quite a success. We got an encore. (Ironically, the French don't say "encore! encore!" though it is a French word that means "again." They say "bis! bis!")
We have another concert in Marseille tonight, and then Paris tomorrow! Here's the official tour schedule!
April 14 @ 7 PM, Paris, 4 rue Déodat de Séverac 75017 Paris 19h
April 16 @ 1:15 PM, Dublin: Saint Ann's Church
April 16 @ 8 PM, Dublin: All Saint's Church Raheny
April 18 @ 7 PM, Nottingham, England: Eaton's Road, The Roach Stapleford, Nottinghamshire NG9 7EB
April 19 @ 8 PM, London: 92 Barnhill Road Wembley, Middlesex, HA9 9BS
April 25 @ 7 PM, Geneva: Eglise du Christ de Geneve
After the choir concert in London, the choir will part ways for a few days of vacation. Then we will reassemble for the concert in Geneva and head to the Church of Christ Soccer Tournament for the weekend.
This past week was busier yet than usual, because we spent the weekend as part of the tail-end of an evangelism campaign in Pau**, and then had our CEM 2nd Trimester Exams Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. In the midst of our hyped up chorus rehearsals, Joelle and I had rehearsals for our "English Club Theater Show" at the local University, which we had Thursday night. We prepared a 1 minute sketch, and there were 8 other sketches performed by (real!) students. The show lasted a half hour and was hilarious! We covered Monty Python, Flight of the Concords, and some Shakespeare! All the students' worked really hard to learn lots of lines, in English, and to perfect their pronunciation. Here's a link to the sketch that Joelle and I interpreted anew:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqbO0P5IQc
I'm hoping to get a copy of the video of our performance.
This is the English Theater Club's version of Flight of the Concords "Business Time." If you don't know what I'm talking about already, please don't look it up.
*As I now attend 2 English conversation groups at the local University as a token "native speaker" I shall try to use as native a language as possible! Here is an idiom that is possibly inappropriate given the context.
**Post about this coming relatively soon. I will probably not post again for the next two weeks to give you all a break.
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