From Mom

hello to everyone!

We just got in from the Sakura Christmas Party. It was quite an affair. Lots of food and fun. For any of you who know my concerns with music. Here's some good ones for you. Let me see we have been here just over 2 weeks. We have now formed 2 Choir's One that some of the staff here asked me to do with them. We just got through singing for the Christmas Party here. We sang, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, Jingle Bells and Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer. We had 2 practices. We had a good time and the band was a big help. they made us sound great. The other is a Wednesday activity after English class. We started last Sunday after meetings. Some of the young people invited a number of the students from English class and a whole bunch showed up on Sunday. We will be singing in Church when president Smith is here. We have tried to work on parts and sang with the Church Hymns CD's. We will sing ACapella Joy to the World. With the large group that came Sunday and stayed to practice on Wednesday. I hope that there is enough room for the rest of the congregation. When we got them all organized in a group up front to sing there was not much room left. They are so excited and want to do these kinds of things. There is not much for them to do as far as activities. They also put there whole hearts in to singing. In the meetings they sing louder that our whole congregation at home. Even if they don't sing on key they still sing. IT is great.

We will be singing for the LDSC Christmas party and I think they said 5 songs. We will do our best. So even though I struggle with the piano I can still direct choir's and we get the recorded music if we can. In our English classes we sing 2 songs from books that have been made up of popular songs. We have CD's with the words and music. The books have just the words. Things like Grandmas Feather Bed, Sing A Song, Singing in the rain. Purple People Eater. I am not sure how this started put it is good English practice. As well as just plan fun.
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