Today we woke up bright and early at our hotel and yet again the students surprised me by their promptness: arriving at breakfast before 6:00 am, which was the stated time. As you can tell from the first picture, taken of our continental breakfast, not everyone was awake, but we still had hours on the road for the students to wake up and even practice some songs!
We arrived at Pella at 3:00 in the afternoon, parking right in front of Mrs. DeYoung's mother's house, and all of the students ran up to greet her.
The students had a little time to explore "downtown" Pella, but we soon arrived at Calvary CRC to get set up and practice.
The local high school choir that joined us for some of the pieces was a great group of students. Below you can see our students meeting them "face to face". Mr. Ippel wanted to rehearse one more time after dinner, just before the concert, but decided not to because the students were having so much fun playing basketball and interacting with these students, which is really one of the more important things the students are doing on the tour. That, and they sang so well anyway that they really didn't need the extra practice.
You can also find more pictures here as I will try to take as many as possible and put the best ones here in the blog.
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