Christmas?

A few nights ago I was driving up Quinpool road and noticed all of these... Christmas lights? I literally thought, "What are those doing there?" And then, of course, realized that Christmas is a mere three weeks away. I have to chuckle when people engage in the usual social discourse of these times "Are ya ready fer the holidays?" because, frankly, my time horizon only includes things related to the Berlin Project. The holidays? A mere illusion. I have Canadian identity issues to address, flights to book and unions to deal with.

Yesterday, Garry had a conversation with Michael K. at the FEZ. Things are looking good, they're helping us out a little more, they're excited to have us oldies and newbies on the program and by the way, the festival dates have changed so that our trip essentially has to extend by a week.

So, now we are mustering the troops to see who can go, for what period and how to manage an extra week away. The reality is that people have to take time off from school or jobs for Berlin and that's not a small consideration.

Mike also suggested we refer to the project as "The Canada Project" for all the Berlin materials, because it could be a little confusing. Mmmmm... right. So, we'll just bookmark that and figure out what's what, what? My aunt also found my description of the project confusing, I guess, because she thought we were raising funds to help kids from Berlin. Her question to me (after making a donation anyway) was, "Why didn't you consider helping youth from Nova Scotia or your own community." *sigh*

I'm about to go meet with the young four. I've been grappling with how to refer to the old four and the young four and in the absence of stumbling on anything fun or interesting... old and young it is. Anyway, I digress. Today we'll be revisiting some physical and vocal training from their workshop, playing with Shakesepeare, reading the script excerpts Josh MacDonald sent us for the Cafe and digging into methods to get the materials upon which they will base their new collective creation. I'm going to add in probably one of the least informed German lessons they will receive. But I do know how to say thank you, how much does it cost and my eggs are hot. All of which could be potentially critically important to know.

:)