Pip pip! Cheerio! And all that rot...

Well, my time has finally come. I'm leaving for England in two days! For those of you not in the know, I'm the tenor section leader at an Anglican church in Rye, New York, and our choir is doing a tour of the U.K. for the next ten days. We're starting out in London for a few days of sightseeing and then we're off to sing at 3 cathedrals and our sister church in Rye, England, with a few stopovers to see some castles and Stonehenge on our way. It should be awesome!

I'm a little bit terrified, and not only because I haven't even begun thinking about what I'm taking with me yet... I'm not really worried about the music (although it is unsettling that we haven't looked at any of it in two months, especially after the touch-up rehearsal this evening), more about being in a foreign country for ten days with a group of people I've never spent more than a few hours on Sundays with. The last time I was in Europe was likewise with a group of folks I didn't know really well - I did London, Paris and Madrid in highschool - and I actually ended up having a fantastic time and making a lot of new friends. I'd like to think that'll be the case this time around, but I'm of course worrying about it anyway.

At any rate, I will have my computer with me, so I'm hoping I'll have some time and internet connectivity to send updates your way while I'm on the road. Stay tuned!