Day Three - Monday

Well we have now been here for three full days (plus Saturday night), however it feels like we've been here for much longer.

Our host families are just so kind and welcoming that we're all going to find it hard to leave on friday.

Yesterday we sang for the Mayor of Neukirchen/Vluyn in the foyer of the Rathaus - which bascially translates to council house. The acoustics were amazing and we sang A Capella perfectly. After our singing we were invited into a large meeting room where we learnt abit about the town and its history, to a glass of champaign.

Then we were driven to a chinese restaurant. It was pretty good... strange to have chinese in Germany :) but we laughed and joked a lot anyway.

After our lunch, we went for a walk through some of the "leaveless" trees, down a long winding road to visit a local castle where the Baron and his family have lived, for 600 years. It was beautiful and simply amazing.

That afternoon we performed for an old peoples home. We sang to them and they sang to us - a song about love and a beautiful farewell song as we left. We were also treated to (more) coffee and cake.

Our day didn't end there. We then had a chance to shop around town. It was very different and the language barrier made it very interesting, but we survived. Some local kids were fascinated that we were Australian and they asked if they could take us to school for "show and tell" during their English lesson. We laughed a lot about that.

That evening we met up with the rest of the members of the UniVoice choir (some of which we are billeting with). We had a good old laugh and some more drink (of course) to wash down the food.

Then it was home time and although most of us were ready for bed... there was still one more course. We asked for a small meal but there is no such thing in Neukirchen/Vluyn...