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.
posted by Allen J P at
03:51
1 Comments:
Hi,
I know you are still in college and not a math major at that but if you get back on June 22 with a sixth month outfit for baby girl and she was born on April 12...my guess she would be a 2 months and 10 days. Just a little shy of six months she might have to put on a couple of more lbs. But thats me just being sarcastic, she is actually wearing size 3 months clothes now so probably in month or so she might be getting into it if she keeps her current growing rate.
I will ask Nhu about Euchre, but is that the game wear you go through the alphabet naming movies that Bob Euchre was in. He was great Major League as the announcer.
Your "would you rather" sounds much cleaner than the version of the game I have heard of back in my day it was called "who would you rather."
I'm sorry Allen but nobody likes Mao...Yao has some fans in Houston but nobody likes Mao.
The DaVinci Code... on a Harding trip another reason why whoever is leading your Harding trip should be fired. I can't say to much b/c I have both books on CD...I have listened to the DaVinci code but haven't listened too Angels and Demons. We got them on a trip to Florida a couple of years ago...anywho The book was okay...as long as you understand it is fiction. It really helps if you go and read the stuff that his theories of Jesus and Mary Magdelene being married was based off of. I don't remember the name of that book b/c I went straight to the source of it all the trouble which is the Gospel of Thomas which doesn't even say that Jesus and Mary were married but simply that Jesus kissed her and that the other apostles were jealous. That isn't a quote but more of a nutshell of all that applies from it. Their are several Books that were left out of the Bible at the council of Nicaea (I am 90% sure that was were the bible as we know it was put together). Anyway Gospel of Thomas, Mary Magdelene, Judas, and Barnabus (books 1 and 2) where left out for some reason or another. Judas was pretty easy b/c you can't write a gospel after you have died (nutshell: Jesus asked Judas to betray him and was really innocent in the whole matter.) I don't remember why the others where left out. Gospel of Barnabus really has some good stuff in it but was deemed not inspired by God at the council. Anyway you really have to have faith that God was working when He put the Bible together, but isn't that what you have to have anyway.
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