travelin' fool redux

[mamajoan]

It seems I most likely will be going to Montreal after all. The back-story is that every year the Philips Academy (ritzy private high school) choir and orchestra go on a tour. Their director/conductor is the conductor of my choir and also a friend of my mom's. So when they need extra chaperones, which is just about always, he turns to my mom, and sometimes to me. I haven't gone on any of their overseas trips because chaperones have to pay their own way (or at least part of it) and it's expensive. My mom generally gets a free ride because she doubles as the trip nurse. Since this trip is just within the continent of North America (Burlington VT and Montreal), it'll be a lot cheaper so I'm invited along, and whether I have to pay anything will depend on how the final budget comes out, but I'll probably pay it anyway because it'll be reasonably cheap I'm sure.

Pro's:

• Get to travel to fun new places.
  
• Get to perform great music (Bach's "Magnificat" in this case)
  
• Any time not spent at work is a pro to me. (see previous journal entry!)
  

Con's:

• Traveling with a hundred-plus teenagers. Nuff said.
  
• Need to learn Bach's "Magnificat" by early March. Ack! I have the opening chorus and the "Sicut locutus est" down, cause they're pretty easy, but DAMN, have you looked at that "Fecit potentiam"? And then there's the "Omnes generationes"! And I'm singing second soprano this time, whereas I've always done first, so it's like learning the piece all over again. Yikes!
  

Anyway, it should be a lot of fun, if stressful at times too. Let's just cross our fingers that none of the kids get horribly ill, since I'll be sharing a hotel room with the trip nurse (my mom). And, of course, that none of the kids do anything horribly naughty either. Last trip I went on, the worst that happened was a couple of the boys caught smoking in the stairway. Big no-no, but little lasting harm done.

And just another reason to get my passport renewed, right tiggrrl ?