Mama's Night Out

This past week I took a night off, left the kids with a babysitter and went for a choir practise. Now don't you think mama must need time out if she chooses to sing in a choir where she cannot read or speak the language! She must be pretty desparate! Well, I signed up to sing Christmas carols in High German. I can understand PA dutch but don't speak it. My husband does not want me to sound like a certain someone in our area who mixes his English & PA Dutch very badly!
So there are about 25 of us in the choir. Some can speak PA Dutch, some were raised on the German music in their churches, some know only English, some can't read music or understand the basic fundamentals of music such as what is a measure, and some men didn't know what part they sing and said soprano. We even have a few children. The organizer & the director were well pleasedw ith our beginning rehearsal. We did stat with a very familiar carol. I'll have to get my music to make sure I spell this right! Stille Nacht was our first song. I think I'll have to get out my John Schmid CD!