Colindat

I wish I had (or knew) a way to attach sound files to my blog. As I learned last year, Romanians take their Christmas caroling seriously! Last year, I showed up at 6 pm on Christmas Eve as instructed, expecting to be home by 9 or so. Nine came and went...and ten...and eleven...and midnight. I finally arrived home at almost 2 in the morning! And that was only because I told pastor I really had to go (silly me...I thought I could just eat dinner when I got home...by 2 a.m., I was in trouble!).

This year, I was prepared for the all-nighter (I made sure to eat dinner first!)- and we were all prepared to sing, because we had had several rehearsals in the weeks preceding (I told you they take their caroling seriously!). The result was an incredible harmony, which was only enhanced by the acoustics in concrete stairwells. I have several short recordings...I wish you could hear them!

We finished at the "last" stop at about midnight and shuffled passengers so that people were headed home to the correct areas of the city with their drivers. But we weren't REALLY done yet. One of the men took Dani, our choir director home, and then the rest of us reconvened near his apartment and surprised him by caroling at HIS door.