I hope that all of you are still having a jolly good time without me to enrich and fulfill your lives, but fear not...I shall return eventually. My time here has made me realize how much I mean to all of you, and has fill me with a sense of great humility...alright, maybe not, but you miss me and I miss you and we will leave it at that. Nothing extraordinary has been going on here, but I have had a ton of rehearsals recently to prepare for the upcoming opera performance with the choir as well as a recital I have to do soon. The essays keep coming as they always do, but I really like the classes I am taking. One of them is on the Mighty Handful and its Legacy (Rimsky-Korsokov, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, etc..) and the other is on Early Sacred Music. They take their choral music here very seriously since all of the early choral music in English IS English (Tallis, Byrd, etc.). I really like it, and I wish we had an equivelant to it back home. Their chapels here are pristine. They hold evensongs weekly, and the one that I sing in is going to start a Compline service once a fortnight (compline is the oldest still practiced service in the Catholick church, not to be confused with Catholic). Going to a friend's birthday tonight in black-tie, so I'm sure I will have cool and suave pictures to post for next time. Oh, it snowed A LOT Monday and I took part in an enormous midnight snowball fight! Watching the snow-deprived English was a hoot! Good pictures from that will come later too. Love all. Miss all. Talk to you soon.
Cody
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