Day 15: Pau, France

Today was awesome, because I did not do anything.  I slept in, and then I had brunch with my host family.  It was pretty good.  Then after, I went to my room and worked on homework and practiced.  I basically did this for the entire day.  For dinner, we had crepes, and they were delicious.  This is basically my entire post.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I had a great visit on Skype with my mom, dad, Paul and Heather from their lovely home in WIllis, TX. It was almost like being there.

I also spent a little time researching my opera.  So to recap, I am playing in a local production of Les Mousquetaires au Convent.  It is technically an operetta, in three acts.  Basically, the governor places a group of soldiers in town to discourage uprisings.  Some of them steal some monks robes and proceed to visit the convent.  Hilarity ensues.  It should be fun.  There are 25 musical numbers in the production, but I'm not sure how long the whole thing is.  The company is a mix of amateurs and professionals, so they should be pretty good. I don't know the actual instrumentation, but we will be playing with one horn, one trumpet and one trombone.

I am very excited about this, and it should be a lot of fun.