Kaiserslautern

Singing in a choir helps me feel like I live here too.  My friend Kirsten, who now lives in Kaiserslautern, invited us to sing along in the choir that she sings in.  They have a concert on Nov 18.  This week we went to the first two rehearsals.  We’re singing the Franz von Suppé Requiem.  I’d never heard of von Suppé before.  His music is quite Mozartian.  Larry’s enjoying it too…and he has the challenge of understanding what the conductor is saying! 

It was nice to see Kirsten and the family.  Of course, the kids have grown quite a bit in 5 years.  We enjoyed going for walks.  Larry and I took the girls up to the neighbourhood horse stables where we spent a good hour just watching the goings-on.   They take riding lessons and so were particularly enthralled with the routines and visiting the horses in their stalls.  I also got a little tour of the Waldorf schools that Antonia and Charlotte go to.  It felt like a comfortable, holistic, natural place to be.  I could imagine some of the philosophy fitting in to our school programs, particularly as part of the Eco-School program.   I'll need to do some research about that...maybe later!  I enjoyed playing games with the girls too.  We’re going back next week for the next set of rehearsals and then concert.  I have a dilemma.  Charlotte wants me to come and watch her riding lesson.   At the same time, Antonia wants me to come along to her school’s Lantern parade in the woods for St Martin’s Day.   (Hmmm.  Maybe that’s what I’ll have to do, since I’ve not experienced that before.)  We’ll see. 

On the way to Kaiserslautern, Larry and I took the little country roads to get there.  We travelled the German wine route and stopped in some of the little towns and visited the old medieval town centres.  

In Bad Bergzabern we stopped for Kaffee and Kuchen.  In Annweiler we stopped for a glass of the region’s wine.  It was a lovely day.