A bit of life

We have had a fabulous week+ ! It all started with an exciting New Years Concert that Søren and I arranged with/for our students! Our school has never had such an event before so it was exciting to be the ones starting a new tradition!  Just 1½ years ago we sat at home dreaming up future plans for music at our school, including putting on a huge concert, and last Friday our vision became a reality! The concert lasted about 1½ hours and included songs from the last 3 decades.  There were around 60 different students involced including two students who acted as radio hosts leading us through the evening with funny comments and information.  We had two stages so the bands could quickly switch and keep a flow to it all.  Being the first time, we didn't know exactly what to expect but everything went so well and there were a lot of happy parents, etc.  We were tired after a long Friday of setting up, a rehearsal run through of the whole concert and then the actual concert at night, but we went home around 10:30pm and spent the next hour or so on a puffy cloud talking about everything, before we finally crashed.

Conducting the big choir

My voice students

Søren directing the band!

Me with the flowers our students gave us on stage after the concert!

We had been looking forward to the New Years Concert for quite some time, but I personally was happy when it was over as well.  The day after the concert I had a weekend full of rehearsing for the Show Choir show that  I am in.  It was a long a productive weekend and things were looking good for opening night the coming Friday.  We practiced every night that week and when Friday finally came around we all felt ready and excited! Opening night went very well.  We were all boosted form the energy of the audience and put on great performances.  I also got to experience improvising lines, in Danish, as one of the others actresses said the wrong line during one of our dialogs. We did just fine covering it up, but we were both a little nervous up there on stage for a second or two! 

The show is quite different from the other shows we have done as a Show choir.  This time there are a lot of popular songs that are connected with a little story.  The story happens to take place at a factory that makes costumes and props for theaters.  I happen to be a ditzy blonde who doesn’t even know that she is pregnant (the part was specially written in for my “circumstances”) I have 3 solo songs and am pretty much on stage throughout the entire show! I am having a lot of fun and as always enjoying being on stage.

Me singing "I'm So Excited."

So that is what has been keeping me/us busy.  Søren has one week left of student teaching and then we start up with our musical at school in a week and a half.

Today, Sunday, we have had the most wonderful and relaxing day. We started with breakfast in bed and just stayed in bed all morning/early afternoon looking at the house plans for our new house and deciding how we’re going to set things up. It was really fun to get an idea of how we want things.  It’s still 3 months away, but it’ll probably go really fast!! Then we went for a long walk in the beautiful, crisp January weather. Now we are just relaxing and waiting to watch the Danish men play in the World Cup Handball tournament tonight.  A much deserved relaxing weekend!!

23 weeks.