By: Simone Savard-Walsh
We got on the coach bus for Toronto early in the AM. I slept the whole way, and we were dropped off at the Eaton Centre. Nothing like a bit of shopping to kick-start your day, unless it's lunchtime in Toronto on a SATURDAY. What madness, I tells ya. So shopping was shopping; we arrived back to the bus laden down with bags from stores we're still waiting to get back home.
We bussed our way to the Harbourfront Centre, luggage and all. That was all very fine until we found out we had to lug our luggage up 2 flights of stairs and manage to fit about 60 pieces of luggage into a dressing room designed for no more than 4 people. Then poor Mark and Sharon had to address a very cranky choir to break the news about a very small dressing room for 55 choirsters. Wuwu.
After the dress rehearsal for both the opera and choral prelude, we were set free for dinner for a few hours. A good bunch of us went to Pizza Pizza and Starbucks.
The concert went very well, and afterwards we met our billets for the first time; Emma and I were received by a very sweet Haitian family living outside Toronto. We went to bed, excited to sleep in the next day for the first time!!!!
Rehearsing before the performance
The Choral Prelude
Taking a bow.
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