Friday, May 11, 2012

Today our blog was written my Kendra Litwilller a soprano 2 from Hopedale, Illinois. We met at the church at 10 am and said goodbye (tot ziens) to our host parents. To start off the the full day of our trip we all enjoyed a chance to sleep in. Gathering at the church at 10 am, we said goodbye (tot ziens) to our first host families and walked to the Ten Boom Museum. Here Maria Martin told us the story of Corrie Ten Boom hiding Jews during the Holocaust. Afterwards we visited the Saint Baavo's Church which held amazing architecture and history. We loaded loaded the bus quickly while watching out for bikers and headed in the direction of Friesland. On the way we stopped on the Afsluitdijk , and had time to walk across the bridge over the road to view both the Ijselmeer and the the North Sea. After arriving in Friesland we visited historic Mennonite Smons places in Pingjum and Wittmaraum. Our final destination of the day was Journe, where we ate supper with new host families before performing our second concert of the tour. Yet again the concert was well received by all attending. The church was packed full of people! After our final piece they presented ken with a gift for touring with the choir for 15 European trips. And they proceeded to hand each of us a rose showing their thanks for us performing. Then the crowd started chanting in english "We want more!" So we sang one more piece for them and they were thrilled. The rest of the evening was spent with host parents, relaxing and enjoying each others company. Tot straks

2 comments:

  1. Are you able to post pictures to the Blog? It would be great to see a picture of the choir during a concert.

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  2. Het is leuk om te lezen over je ervaringen in mijn geboorte land. Ik hoop dat je geniet van wat kaas, brood en haagelslag voor mij.
    Maria Day

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