Monday, September 3, 2007

Hello everyone. I still haven´t figured out the whole photo post thing yet, but I´ll keep trying. So, last weekend, there was a school festival (medium sized), a clay-ish festival, and a nice bike ride. On Saturday, I went to the school festival (the 11th graders job was to set up). There were different stand for different grades, like a baked good stand, a jam stand, a make your own lip balm stand, a mixed drinks without alcohol stand, a fortune telling stand, a face painting stand, and so on. It was fun. At the same time, practically across the street, the clay-ish festival thing was going on. There were 2 or 3 streets full of stands on either side with stuff made out of clay (pots, vases, plates, little animals, etc). It was held in the Hollander section of Potsdam (the houses built for the Hollanders to live in so that they would move here and work). The biking was on Sunday. It was beautiful. Potsdam is practically an island (it is surrounded by lakes, rivers, and canals, the first two created by the ice age), and we rode on the edge of a couple different lakes and rivers.
Last wednesday was the first day of chorus. We have chorus every wednesday. When I first agreed to be in it, I was a little sceptical of my ability to sing in a chorus, but after that practice, I remembered how much fun it was to me in a musical group. We practiced a christmas song made of of many christmas songs (it was in english, but most of their other songs are in german). This chours is a really good chorus. They´ve won competitions and last summer they went to Rome ( I think they go somewhere exciting every summer). We´ll be making a christmas CD and selling it around christmas time. The people in chorus are really nice too. It´s easier to have the chance to get to know people there because in class, the only time to freely talk is before and after the lesson, and during break.
Well, that´s about it for now. I´m going to go and try to get the pictures of of my camera.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Margo! Glad to hear Germany is fun. Colby College is rocking and rolling as well. On my group's orientation trip (a hike on the Appalachain Trail), our theme song was a chant spoken in a heinously inaccurate German accent.
Talk to you later!
-Debbie

Anonymous said...

Ooh, that sounds like so much fun, Margo! BHS is just as boring as ever, of course. Good luck getting those photos on here. I really want to see them!

Love, Colleen

P.S. Physics might kill me.