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toadflax234 for the Christmas card I got in the mail yesterday!
I've still got to do mine - I don't know if it will get done today though because...
I'm sick again!!!!!!!
Dammit!!!!!!!!
I had a bad sore throat and cold a week ago, and it went away and I felt fine. Until I went out last night and got sick again!! And now my lower back hurts like crazy too - I don't know why!
We were going to go out for a walk today and try to get some exercise, but now I think I'm stuck at home resting up - because I still have a week of classes before I'm free for winter break! Ugh!
Anyway - briefly I'll tell you about the concert I attended last night. One of the English teachers at my Junior high school invited me about a month ago to a special Christmas Gospel Choir concert at the local theater. It's a group called Voices of Japan, and they're a gospel group that tours nationally, and has some very famous singer with them. The teacher at my school, Mr. Oka, wanted me to come to the concert because his local gospel choir would be singing a couple of songs during the show. At first I said I'd think about it - but I really didn't think I wanted to go, since the tickets were quite expensive and of course I can't drive here so I have no way to get there (my husband definitely wouldn't want to go).
But Mr. Oka kept asking me about it, so I eventually said I'd go - so I arranged to go with the young female English teacher, Natsuko. She picked me up at 5 p.m. yesterday, and we ate a delicious dinner of ramen and gyoza at the the ramen shop across the street from my house and then got to the concert just as they were closing the doors! I enjoyed most of the show - the Christmas music was really beautiful, and they are a very good choir, very professional and very good singers. There are 12 in the group, 8 women and 4 men, and some of the women had outstanding voices. They sang many traditional Christmas songs in a mix of Japanese and English, and some original songs too. Most of the Christmas songs were "gospelized" - which means of course that they were mostly upbeat, with dancing and lots of hands raised. They were really copying the traditional black gospel style, which I love - but of course it's a bit unusual to hear American Christmas songs sung in Japanese, in a gospel style. But overall I did enjoy the show, and it was nice getting out. Except for the getting sick part!!!!
anyway - that's enough of my babbling. Happy weekend everyone. I'm off to finish my lesson planning and sleep!
toadflax234 for the Christmas card I got in the mail yesterday! I've still got to do mine - I don't know if it will get done today though because...
I'm sick again!!!!!!!
Dammit!!!!!!!!
I had a bad sore throat and cold a week ago, and it went away and I felt fine. Until I went out last night and got sick again!! And now my lower back hurts like crazy too - I don't know why!
We were going to go out for a walk today and try to get some exercise, but now I think I'm stuck at home resting up - because I still have a week of classes before I'm free for winter break! Ugh!
Anyway - briefly I'll tell you about the concert I attended last night. One of the English teachers at my Junior high school invited me about a month ago to a special Christmas Gospel Choir concert at the local theater. It's a group called Voices of Japan, and they're a gospel group that tours nationally, and has some very famous singer with them. The teacher at my school, Mr. Oka, wanted me to come to the concert because his local gospel choir would be singing a couple of songs during the show. At first I said I'd think about it - but I really didn't think I wanted to go, since the tickets were quite expensive and of course I can't drive here so I have no way to get there (my husband definitely wouldn't want to go).
But Mr. Oka kept asking me about it, so I eventually said I'd go - so I arranged to go with the young female English teacher, Natsuko. She picked me up at 5 p.m. yesterday, and we ate a delicious dinner of ramen and gyoza at the the ramen shop across the street from my house and then got to the concert just as they were closing the doors! I enjoyed most of the show - the Christmas music was really beautiful, and they are a very good choir, very professional and very good singers. There are 12 in the group, 8 women and 4 men, and some of the women had outstanding voices. They sang many traditional Christmas songs in a mix of Japanese and English, and some original songs too. Most of the Christmas songs were "gospelized" - which means of course that they were mostly upbeat, with dancing and lots of hands raised. They were really copying the traditional black gospel style, which I love - but of course it's a bit unusual to hear American Christmas songs sung in Japanese, in a gospel style. But overall I did enjoy the show, and it was nice getting out. Except for the getting sick part!!!!
anyway - that's enough of my babbling. Happy weekend everyone. I'm off to finish my lesson planning and sleep!
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