Chorus Campaigns: a guide to maintaining sanity on the road
I'm still in the French town next to Genéve; we leave this afternoon for nearby Lyon. I spent yesterday roaming around Genéve with Wil and Brooks, and found a cute little Switzerland outfit for baby Jacqueline. It's a 6-month size, so hopefully it will fit her when I get back.
Between bus rides and free nights in hotels, you may wonder what we do to pass the time not spent rehearsing or sightseeing. Here's a sample of what amusements we find:
Literature: a card game for 6 players, divided into 2 teams. It's basically Go Fish, but much more difficult. 8's are removed from the deck, and books are determined by suit and by rank (2-7 is low and worth 1pt, 9-A is high and worth 2pts). Players ask opposing team members for specific cards. You may not ask for a card that you have, and you can only ask for a card in a book you are collecting. Books are collected as a team: you may have the 9, 10, K of spades but you can lay down the book if you know your teammates have the J, K, and A. The catch - you have to know exactly who has what, and you can't ask them. If you mess up, the other team gets the book and the points. This is my new favorite card game.
Would you rather: more of a conversation starter than a game, it's a comparison of difficult choices. Would you rather slide down a slide coated with mayonaise into a swimming pool full of potato salad, or be forced to watch Sylvester Stallone movies dubbed in Catalan for the rest of your life?
Spades, Hearts, Euchre: no explanation needed. If you don't know what Euchre is, ask Nhu. I think every Ohian knows how to play it.
Mao: more of a Concert Choir favorite than a Chorus thing, this is the game where you don't know the rules and have to figure them out by breaking them. Ideal to play with a bunch of people who catch on really fast, and one or two who don't.
Required reading: If you are on Chorus tour, you are probably reading, have probably read, or are probably waiting in line to read someone's copy of The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons, or Blue Like Jazz. There will be a quiz at the end of tour over these books.
Coming up: Lyon, f'reals.
Between bus rides and free nights in hotels, you may wonder what we do to pass the time not spent rehearsing or sightseeing. Here's a sample of what amusements we find:
Literature: a card game for 6 players, divided into 2 teams. It's basically Go Fish, but much more difficult. 8's are removed from the deck, and books are determined by suit and by rank (2-7 is low and worth 1pt, 9-A is high and worth 2pts). Players ask opposing team members for specific cards. You may not ask for a card that you have, and you can only ask for a card in a book you are collecting. Books are collected as a team: you may have the 9, 10, K of spades but you can lay down the book if you know your teammates have the J, K, and A. The catch - you have to know exactly who has what, and you can't ask them. If you mess up, the other team gets the book and the points. This is my new favorite card game.
Would you rather: more of a conversation starter than a game, it's a comparison of difficult choices. Would you rather slide down a slide coated with mayonaise into a swimming pool full of potato salad, or be forced to watch Sylvester Stallone movies dubbed in Catalan for the rest of your life?
Spades, Hearts, Euchre: no explanation needed. If you don't know what Euchre is, ask Nhu. I think every Ohian knows how to play it.
Mao: more of a Concert Choir favorite than a Chorus thing, this is the game where you don't know the rules and have to figure them out by breaking them. Ideal to play with a bunch of people who catch on really fast, and one or two who don't.
Required reading: If you are on Chorus tour, you are probably reading, have probably read, or are probably waiting in line to read someone's copy of The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons, or Blue Like Jazz. There will be a quiz at the end of tour over these books.
Coming up: Lyon, f'reals.
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